| US 7,446,454 B2 | ||
| Thickness extensional piezoelectric resonator | ||
| Hiroaki Kaida, Moriyama (Japan); Hitoshi Sakaguchi, Toyama (Japan); Takashi Hase, Yasu (Japan); and Jiro Inoue, Omihachiman (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto-fu (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 29, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/605,412. | ||
| Application 11/605412 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2006/303268, filed on Feb. 23, 2006. | ||
| Application PCT/JP2006/303268 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2005/012558, filed on Jul. 07, 2005. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-092001 (JP), filed on Mar. 28, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0069608 A1, Mar. 29, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. H01L 41/08 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 310—320 [310/348] | 17 Claims |

| 1. An energy-trapping-type thickness extensional piezoelectric resonator using a thickness extensional vibration mode, comprising:
a piezoelectric substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, the piezoelectric substrate being polarized in a thickness
direction connecting the top surface and the bottom surface;
first and second resonance electrodes located in a central area of the top surface and the bottom surface of the piezoelectric
substrate, respectively, the first and second resonant electrodes positioned so as to oppose each other with the piezoelectric
substrate therebetween;
a first terminal electrode provided on a first end surface of the piezoelectric substrate; and
a first connection electrode on the top surface of the piezoelectric substrate, the first connecting electrode electrically
connecting the first resonance electrode to first terminal electrode,
wherein the first connecting electrode does not span the entire width of the piezoelectric substrate,
wherein the extensional piezoelectric resonator couples a suppression response having a frequency-temperature-change tendency
with a main response of the thickness extensional vibration mode so as to suppress changes in frequency of the main response
due to temperature,
wherein the piezoelectric substrate has a strip-shape extending in a length direction, the first and second resonance electrodes
span an entire width of the piezoelectric substrate in the central area and do not extend to either edge of the substrate
in the length direction of the top surface and the bottom surface of the piezoelectric substrate, respectively, and the suppression
response is a response resulting from the width of the piezoelectric substrate, and
wherein at least one resonance frequency of the suppression response resulting from the width is higher than an anti-resonance
frequency of the main response.
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