US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 7 for "Piezoelectric vibrator, piezoelectric oscillator, and piezoelectric vibrator manufacturing method having electrodes with different thicknesses" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,585, issued on July 7, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Piezoelectric vibrator, piezoelectric oscillator, and piezoelectric vibrator manufacturing method having electrodes with different thicknesses" was invented by Toshio Nishimura (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuuki Ooi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Tadashi Yoda (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tadayuki Okawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quartz crystal resonator unit that includes: a piezoelectric blank; a first excitation electrode on a first principal surface and within at least a part of a vibration portion of the piezoelectric blank; a second excit...