Abstract:
There is provided a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibrator element capable of preventing the piezoelectric vibrator element from being damaged when segmentallizing the piezoelectric vibrator element. The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibrator element includes the steps of providing the wafer with the piezoelectric plate and a frame part adapted to support the piezoelectric plate via a connection part, providing a pair of excitation electrodes to the piezoelectric plate, and forming a pair of extending electrodes extending from the piezoelectric plate to the frame part through the connection part and electrically connected respectively to the pair of excitation electrodes, and segmentallizing the piezoelectric plate by cutting the connection part. In the step of providing the pair of excitation electrodes, the pair of extending electrodes are formed on a side surface of the connection part.
Abstract:
There is provided a wafer making it possible to stably break off the piezoelectric vibrator element. The wafer includes a piezoelectric vibrator element, a frame part, and a connection part adapted to connect the piezoelectric vibrator element and the frame part to each other, and the connection part is provided with a guide part adapted to guide force, which is applied to the connection part from one surface side in the thickness direction of the connection part when breaking off the piezoelectric vibrator element from the frame part at the connection part, to at least one side in the width direction of the connection part.
Abstract:
There is provided a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibrator element capable of preventing the piezoelectric vibrator element from being damaged when segmentallizing the piezoelectric vibrator element. The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibrator element includes the steps of providing the wafer with the piezoelectric plate and a frame part adapted to support the piezoelectric plate via a connection part, providing a pair of excitation electrodes to the piezoelectric plate, and forming a pair of extending electrodes extending from the piezoelectric plate to the frame part through the connection part and electrically connected respectively to the pair of excitation electrodes, and segmentallizing the piezoelectric plate by cutting the connection part. In the step of providing the pair of excitation electrodes, the pair of extending electrodes are formed on a side surface of the connection part.
Abstract:
A piezoelectric vibrator has a piezoelectric vibrating reed mounted on an upper layer base substrate through a conductive adhesive, in which the piezoelectric vibrating reed includes a first vibrating arm and a second vibrating arm extending along a first direction and arranged side by side in a second direction, a base supporting the first vibrating arm and the second vibrating arm and a first support arm and a second support arm positioned in the outer side of the first vibrating arm and the second vibrating arm in the second direction and bonded to the upper layer base substrate, in which an extrusion amount of the conductive adhesive in the inner side of the first support arm and the second support arm is smaller than an extrusion amount of the conductive adhesive in the outer side of the first support arm and the second support arm.
Abstract:
A pair of vibrating arms are arranged side by side in a second direction crossing the first direction, base end sides of which in the first direction are fixed to the base, a pair of inclined surfaces are formed in both sides of the base end of the vibrating arm in the second direction, an end portion in the base end side of an inner inclined surface is connected to an end surface in the tip end side of the base, and an end portion in the base end side of an outer inclined surface is connected to an end surface of the base in the second direction, and the base-end side end portion of the outer inclined surface is arranged closer to the tip end side than the base-end side end portion of the inner inclined surface.
Abstract:
A piezoelectric vibration piece includes: a base portion; a pair of vibration arm portions which extends in a first (+Y) direction from the base portion, and is arranged separately in a second (X) direction intersecting with the first (+Y) direction; and a support arm portion which extends in the first (+Y) direction from the base portion. The support arm portion, includes a first arm portion formed such that a width which is a length along the second (X) direction is gradually narrowed towards a tip end portion side of the support arm portion, and a second arm portion which extends in the first (+Y) direction from the first arm portion and is formed such that the width is broadened towards the tip end portion side.
Abstract:
A piezoelectric vibrating piece, a piezoelectric vibrator, an oscillator, an electronic apparatus and a radio timepiece capable of reducing the size while suppressing reduction of rigidity and having excellent vibration characteristics. The piezoelectric vibrating piece includes a pair of vibrating arm portions in parallel to each other, a base portion integrally fixing base end portions of the pair of vibrating arm portions in a length direction, groove portions on main surfaces of the pair of vibrating arm portions and extending along the length direction, where each of the groove portions includes a first groove portion near a tip portion end of the vibrating arm portions and a second groove portion near the base end portion side of the vibrating arm portions with respect to the first groove portion, and the second groove portion is offset in a −X axis direction with respect to the first groove portion.
Abstract:
A piezoelectric vibrating piece is provided including: a pair of vibrating arm sections; a base section which is provided between the pair of vibrating arm sections; and connecting sections which connect base end sections of the pair of vibrating arm sections and a base end section of the base section, in which the vibrating arm sections have bending points and the vibrating arm sections extend in a direction away from the base section from the base end sections of the vibrating arm sections to the bending points, and the vibrating arm sections extend along the base section from the bending points to leading end sections of the vibrating arm sections.
Abstract:
There are provided an excitation electrode, a quartz crystal vibrator element, a quartz crystal vibrator, a sensor, an oscillator, and a method of manufacturing a quartz crystal vibrator element which are not affected by heat in a process or a use environment to surely prevent a frequency fluctuation from occurring, reduction in size of which can be achieved, and which are low in cost and excellent in productivity. The excitation electrodes are disposed on an outer surface of a quartz crystal plate, apply an electrical field for exciting the quartz crystal plate to the quartz crystal plate, have a single layer structure formed of a two-dimensional layered substance, and are used when arranged as a pair so as to be opposed to each other via the quartz crystal plate.
Abstract:
There is provided a piezoelectric vibrator element which is excellent in vibration characteristics, high in quality, and capable of suppressing a frequency fluctuation after a frequency adjustment. The piezoelectric vibrator element is provided with a piezoelectric plate having a pair of vibrating arm parts, an electrode film disposed on obverse and reverse surfaces of the piezoelectric plate, and weight metal films for a frequency adjustment disposed on the electrode film at the obverse surface side in the vibrating arm parts. The reverse surface of the vibrating arm part has a reverse side exposure part from which the piezoelectric plate is exposed. The obverse surface of the vibrating arm part has an obverse side exposure part from which the weight metal film and the electrode film are removed, and from which the piezoelectric plate is exposed. A whole of the obverse side exposure part overlaps the reverse side exposure part at a distance from the electrode film on the reverse surface viewed from a thickness direction of the piezoelectric plate.