IP Library Granted Patent US 9,450,564
Granted Patent B2
US 9,450,564 · App. 14/470,933 · Granted Sep 20, 2016

Elastic wave filter

Inventor: Ryuji Kajihara (Saitama, JP)
Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
H03H9/6489H03H9/1452H03H9/14517
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Patent No.
US 9,450,564
App. No.
14/470,933
Granted
Sep 20, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An elastic wave filter includes a piezoelectric substrate, an input side IDT electrode, an output side IDT electrode, and a reflector. At least one IDT electrode among the input side IDT electrode and the output side IDT electrode is weighted only with a main lobe among an apodized weighting method such that the intersection length becomes short from a part at which one electrode finger is opposed to another electrode finger adjacent to the one electrode finger toward an end portion of the at least one IDT electrode in a propagation direction of an elastic wave. A part with the largest intersection length in the at least one IDT electrode is shifted to any one of one side and another side in the propagation direction of the elastic wave from a center position at the at least one IDT electrode in the propagation direction of the elastic wave.

Claims (12)

1. An elastic wave filter, comprising:

a piezoelectric substrate;

an input side interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode that includes a pair of busbars and an electrode finger, the pair of busbars being arranged so as to be separated from one another in a direction perpendicular to a propagation direction of an elastic wave on the piezoelectric substrate, the electrode finger each extending from each of the pair of busbars toward an opposed busbar in a comb shape;

an output side IDT electrode that includes a pair of busbars and an electrode finger, the pair of busbars being disposed at positions separating in the propagation direction of the elastic wave with respect to the input side IDT electrode, the pair of busbars being arranged so as to be separated from one another in the direction perpendicular to the propagation direction of the elastic wave on the piezoelectric substrate, the electrode finger each extending from each of the pair of busbars toward an opposed busbar in a comb shape; and

a reflector that includes a pair of reflector busbars and a reflector electrode finger, when viewed from a line arrangement of the input side IDT electrode and the output side IDT electrode, the respective pair of reflector busbars being arranged at one side and another side in the propagation direction of the elastic wave, the pair of reflector busbars being disposed so as to be separated from one another in the direction perpendicular to the propagation direction of the elastic wave, the reflector electrode finger connecting between the reflector busbars, wherein:

assuming that a length dimension at which the electrode fingers adjacent to one another intersect is referred to as an intersection length, at least one IDT electrode among the input side IDT electrode and the output side IDT electrode is weighted only with a main lobe among an apodized weighting method, such that the intersection length becomes short from a part at which one electrode finger is opposed to another electrode finger adjacent to the one electrode finger toward an end portion of the at least one IDT electrode in the propagation direction of the elastic wave, and

a part with the largest intersection length in the at least one IDT electrode is shifted to any one of one side and another side in the propagation direction of the elastic wave from a center position at the at least one IDT electrode in the propagation direction of the elastic wave,

wherein the input side IDT electrode and the output side IDT electrode are each weighted with the apodized main lobe,

when viewed from one reflector among the pair of reflectors, the part with the largest intersection length at the input side IDT electrode is disposed at a position shifted to one side from the center position at the input side IDT electrode in the propagation direction of the elastic wave, and

when viewed from the one reflector, the part with the largest intersection length at the output side IDT electrode is disposed at a position shifted to the one side from the center position at the output side IDT electrode in the propagation direction of the elastic wave.

2. The elastic wave filter according to claim 1 , wherein

the part with the largest intersection length in the at least one IDT electrode is arranged to be shifted from the center position by 12.5% of a length dimension of the at least one IDT electrode in the propagation direction of the elastic wave.

Assignments (3)
SPLIT AND SUCCESSION Recorded Sep 28, 2020
From: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO.,LTD.
To: NDK SAW DEVICES CO.,LTD.
Reel/Frame 054270/0865 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jul 10, 2020
From: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO.,LTD.
To: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO.,LTD.
Reel/Frame 053197/0363 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2014
From: KAJIHARA, RYUJI
To: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 033663/0008 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-189452 · Sep 12, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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