Quartz crystal vibrator using Ni-Ag or Cr-Ni-Ag electrode layers

• US 4,259,607 A
• Filed: 06/19/1978
• Issued: 03/31/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Citizen Watch Co Limited (Citizen Electronics Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Citizen Watch Co Limited (Citizen Electronics Company Limited)
• Inventors: Noguchi, Kazuo, Wakasugi, Makoto, Kohyama, Fumio
• Primary Examiner(s): Budd, Mark O.
• Application Number:
  US05/916,619
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: 310/311, 310/312, 310/364, 310/370, 310/348
• US Class Current: 310/364
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/215 consisting of quartz

Abstract

A structure of an electrode film deposited on a tuning fork-type quartz crystal vibrator in which an electrode film on a tuning fork-type quartz crystal vibrator has a laminated structure obtained by forming, in the order mentioned, three overlapping layers, namely layers of chrome, nickel and silver, or two overlapping layers, namely layers of nickel and silver, on the surface of a tuning fork-shaped quartz crystal from the side nearest thereto, and in which the thickness of each layer of the electrode film is less than 300 A for the chrome layer, less than 500 A for the nickel layer, and less than 2000 A for the silver layer.

Claims

1. A tuning fork-type quartz crystal vibrator comprising:

a tuning fork-shaped quartz crystal; and

an electrode formed on a surface of said quartz crystal and including a thin nickel film deposited directly on upper and lower surfaces of said quartz crystal, and a silver film deposited on said nickel film, wherein said thin nickel film has a thickness of less than 500 A and said silver film has a thickness less than 2000 A.

2. A tuning fork-type quartz crystal vibrator as claimed in claim 1, in which said thin nickel film is deposited at a temperature of about 150°

C., and said silver film is deposited at a temperature of about 100°

C.

3. A tuning fork-type quartz crystal vibrator comprising:

a tuning fork-shaped quartz crystal; and

an electrode formed on a surface of said quartz crystal and including a thin chrome film deposited directly on the surface of said quartz crystal, a thin nickel film deposited on said thin chrome film and a silver film deposited on said thin nickel film, wherein said thin chrome film has a thickness of less than 300 A, said nickel film has a thickness of less than 500 A, and said silver film has a thickness less than 2000 A.

4. A tuning fork-type quartz crystal vibrator as claimed in claim 3, in which said chrome film is deposited at a temperature of about 150°

C., said nickel film is deposited at a temperature of about 150°

C., and said silver film is deposited at a temperature of about 100°

C.