US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on May 12 for "Crystal element, crystal device, electronic equipment, and method for manufacturing crystal element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,564, issued on May 12, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Crystal element, crystal device, electronic equipment, and method for manufacturing crystal element" was invented by Koki Honda (Kyoto, Japan), Seiichiro Namikawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Shogo Nakagawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystal element includes a vibration part, a holding part, an electrode part, and a recess that corresponds to a recess and/or protrusion. The vibration part has a pair of vibration-part main surfaces. The holding part is formed integrally with the vibration part to be connected to an outer edge of vibration part and has a pai...