IP Library Granted Patent US 10,097,158
Granted Patent B2
US 10,097,158 · App. 14/861,938 · Granted Oct 9, 2018

Acoustic wave device, filter, and duplexer

Inventors: Yasufumi Kaneda (Tokyo, JP); Takuma Kuroyanagi (Tokyo, JP); Hitoshi Tsukidate (Tokyo, JP); Osamu Ikata (Tokyo, JP); Kaoru Sakinada (Tokyo, JP); Michio Miura (Tokyo, JP); Tooru Takezaki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
H03H9/14591H03H9/1455H03H9/25H03H9/6443H03H9/6483H03H9/725
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,097,158
App. No.
14/861,938
Filed
Sep 22, 2015
Granted
Oct 9, 2018
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2842
USPC
333/133
Abstract

Acoustic wave device includes: a piezoelectric substrate; a first IDT located on the piezoelectric substrate; and a second IDT located on the piezoelectric substrate and connected in series to the first IDT, wherein the first IDT and the second IDT share a single common bus bar as a first bus bar of two bus bars of the first IDT and a first bus bar of two bus bars of the second IDT, and the common bus bar has a width not more than two times a wavelength of an acoustic wave propagating through the first and second IDTs, the common bus bar connects to no dummy electrode finger facing a tip of an electrode finger connected to a second bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT and the second IDT across a gap.

Claims (48)

1. Acoustic wave device comprising:

a piezoelectric substrate;

a first Interdigital Transducer (IDT) located on the piezoelectric substrate and including electrode fingers and two bus bars; and

a second IDT located on the piezoelectric substrate, including electrode fingers and two bus bars, and connected in series to the first IDT, wherein

the first IDT and the second IDT share a single common bus bar as a first bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT and a first bus bar of the two bus bars of the second IDT,

the common bus bar has a width that is not more than two times and more than 0.3 times a wavelength of an acoustic wave propagating through the first IDT and the second IDT,

the common bus bar connects to no dummy electrode finger facing a tip of the electrode finger connected to a second bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT across a gap and no dummy electrode finger facing a tip of the electrode finger connected to a second bus bar of the two bus bars of the second IDT across a gap,

the second bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT connects to a dummy electrode finger located to face a tip of the electrode finger connected to the common bus bar across a gap, and the second bus bar of the two bus bars of the second IDT connects to a dummy electrode finger located to face a tip of the electrode finger connected to the common bus bar across a gap, and

a line and space ratio of the electrode fingers included in the first IDT differs from a line and space ratio of the electrode fingers included in the second IDT.

2. The acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein

the width of the common bus bar is not more than 1.2 times and more than 0.3 times the wavelength of the acoustic wave propagating through the first IDT and the second IDT.

3. The acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein

the width of the common bus bar is not more than 1.2 times and more than 0.5 times the wavelength of the acoustic wave propagating through the first IDT and the second IDT.

4. The acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein

a pitch of the electrode fingers included in the first IDT differs from a pitch of the electrode fingers included in the second IDT.

5. The acoustic wave device according to claim 4 , wherein

the acoustic wave device has a multiple anti-resonant frequencies.

6. The acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein

an aperture length of the electrode fingers included in the first IDT differs from an aperture length of the electrode fingers included in the second IDT.

7. The acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein

a phase of an acoustic wave propagating through the first IDT is the same as a phase of an acoustic wave propagating through the second IDT.

8. A filter comprising:

the acoustic wave device according to claim 1 .

9. A duplexer comprising:

the filter according to claim 8 .

10. The acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein

the second bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT connects to an input terminal for inputting a signal to the first IDT, and

the second bus bar of the two bus bars of the second IDT connects to an output terminal for outputting the signal from the second IDT.

11. Acoustic wave device comprising:

a piezoelectric substrate;

a first Interdigital Transducer (IDT) located on the piezoelectric substrate and including electrode fingers and two bus bars,

a second IDT located on the piezoelectric substrate, including electrode fingers and two bus bars, and connected in series to the first IDT; and

a pair of reflectors that sandwiches only the first IDT and the second IDT, wherein

the first IDT and the second IDT share a single common bus bar as a first bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT and a first bus bar of the two bus bars of the second IDT,

the common bus bar has a width that is not more than two times and more than 0.3 times a wavelength of an acoustic wave propagating through the first IDT and the second IDT, and is a floating electrode,

the common bus bar connects to no dummy electrode finger facing a tip of the electrode finger connected to a second bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT across a gap and no dummy electrode finger facing a tip of the electrode finger connected to a second bus bar of the two bus bars of the second IDT across a gap, and

a line and space ratio of the electrode fingers included in the first IDT differs from a line and space ratio of the electrode fingers included in the second IDT.

12. The acoustic wave device according to claim 11 , wherein

the pair of reflectors does not sandwich any other structures other than the first IDT and the second IDT.

13. A ladder-type filter comprising series resonators and parallel resonators, at least one of the series resonators and the parallel resonators including:

a first Interdigital Transducer (IDT) including electrode fingers and two bus bars connected to the electrode fingers of the first IDT; and

a second IDT including electrode fingers and two bus bars connected to the electrode fingers of the second IDT, and connected in series to the first IDT, wherein

the first IDT and the second IDT share a single common bus bar as a first bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT and a first bus bar of the two bus bars of the second IDT,

the common bus bar has a width that is not more than two times a wavelength of an acoustic wave propagating through the first IDT and the second IDT,

the common bus bar connects to no dummy electrode finger facing a tip of the electrode finger connected to a second bus bar of the two bus bars of the first IDT across a gap and no dummy electrode finger facing a tip of the electrode finger connected to a second bus bar of the two bus bars of the second IDT across a gap, and

a line and space ratio of the electrode fingers included in the first IDT differs from a line and space ratio of the electrode fingers included in the second IDT.

14. The acoustic wave device according to claim 13 , wherein

the common bus bar is a floating electrode.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 22, 2015
From: KANEDA, YASUFUMI; KUROYANAGI, TAKUMA; TSUKIDATE, HITOSHI; IKATA, OSAMU; SAKINADA, KAORU; MIURA, MICHIO; TAKEZAKI, TOORU
To: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 036627/0217 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2014-211899 · Oct 16, 2014 · national
JP 2015-136546 · Jul 7, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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