Vibration device and method of manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11453029-B2
Application number	US-201916289883-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2019
Priority date	Sep 12, 2016
Publication date	Sep 27, 2022
Grant date	Sep 27, 2022

Abstract

A vibration device that includes a first elastic plate having a first end portion and a second end portion, and a first surface and a second surface facing each other and connecting the first and second end portions. A second elastic plate is laminated to the second end portion of the first elastic plate, and a piezoelectric vibration element is provided on at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the first elastic plate. On a portion where the first elastic plate and the second elastic plate are laminated, a first bonding portion and a second bonding portion that bond the first elastic plate and the second elastic plate to each other are provided. The second bonding portion is located closer to the first end portion than the first bonding portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vibration device, comprising:
a first elastic plate having first and second end portions, and first and second surfaces facing each other and connecting the first and second end portions;
a first base member laminated to the first surface of the first elastic plate at the second end portion thereof;
a piezoelectric vibration element on at least one of the first and second surfaces of the first elastic plate; and
first and second bonding portions, the first and second bonding portions being portions where the first elastic plate and the first base member are welded to each other, the second bonding portion located closer to the first end portion of the first elastic plate than the first bonding portion.

2. The vibration device according to claim 1 , wherein
in a plan view of the vibration device, the first elastic plate has a length direction connecting the first end portion with the second end portion, and a width direction perpendicular to the length direction, and
the vibration device includes a plurality of first bonding portions along the width direction, and a plurality of second bonding portions along the width direction.

3. The vibration device according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of second bonding portions are not in contact with each other.

4. The vibration device according to claim 3 , wherein the plurality of second bonding portions are provided at equal intervals.

5. The vibration device according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the first base member is larger than a thickness of the first elastic plate at least in the portion where the first elastic plate and the first base member are laminated to each other.

6. The vibration device according to claim 1 , wherein in a plan view of the vibration device, a portion of the second bonding portion closest to the first end portion is curved.

7. The vibration device according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second bonding portions are made of a member separate from the first elastic plate, and the first and second bonding portions penetrate the first elastic plate and the first base member.

8. The vibration device according to claim 1 , further comprising a mass adding member attached to the first end portion of the first elastic plate.

9. The vibration device according to claim 8 , wherein the first base member is a second elastic plate.

10. The vibration device according to claim 9 , wherein a surface of the mass adding member facing the second elastic plate has an inclined surface.

11. The vibration device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first base member is a second elastic plate facing the first elastic plate,
the first elastic plate has a planar portion including the first end portion, a laminated portion that is laminated to the second elastic plate, and a connecting portion that connects the planar portion with the laminated portion, and
the laminated portion extends from the connecting portion in a direction opposite to the first end portion, and the first surface is parallel in the laminated portion and the planar portion.

12. The vibration device according to claim 1 , wherein the first elastic plate and the first base member are made of metal.

13. A vibration device, comprising:
a first elastic plate having first and second end portions, and first and second surfaces facing each other and connecting the first and second end portions;
a first base member laminated to the first surface of the first elastic plate at the second end portion thereof;
a piezoelectric vibration element on at least one of the first and second surfaces of the first elastic plate; and
first and second bonding portions bonding the first elastic plate and the first base member to each other on a portion where the first elastic plate and the first base member are laminated to each other, the second bonding portion located closer to the first end portion of the first elastic plate than the first bonding portion,
wherein the first and second bonding portions are portions where the first elastic plate and the first base member are welded to each other, and
wherein in a plan view of the vibration device, the first bonding portion and the second bonding portion are in contact with each other.

14. The vibration device, comprising:
a first elastic plate having first and second end portions, and first and second surfaces facing each other and connecting the first and second end portions;
a first base member laminated to the first surface of the first elastic plate at the second end portion thereof;
a piezoelectric vibration element on at least one of the first and second surfaces of the first elastic plate;
first and second bonding portions bonding the first elastic plate and the first base member to each other on a portion where the first elastic plate and the first base member are laminated to each other, the second bonding portion located closer to the first end portion of the first elastic plate than the first bonding portion;
a second base member laminated to the first surface of the first elastic plate at the first end portion thereof; and
third and fourth bonding portions bonding the first elastic plate and the second base member to each other on a portion where the first elastic plate and the second base member are laminated to each other, the fourth bonding portion located closer to the second end portion of the first elastic plate than the third bonding portion.

Assignees

• Murata Manufacturing Co

Inventors

• Kagayama Kenji
• Nomura Junichi
• Kurakawa Haruyoshi

Classifications

• B06B1/06

  operating with piezoelectric effect or with electrostriction (piezoelectric or electrostrictive devices per se H10N30/00) · CPC title

• B06B1/0603

  using a piezoelectric bender, e.g. bimorph · CPC title

• B06B1/0644 Primary

  using a single piezoelectric element (B06B1/0688 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B06B1/14

  the masses being elastically coupled · CPC title

• H01L41/053

  Electricity · mapped topic