Planar type thickness shear mode quartz oscillator

• US 4,710,731 A
• Filed: 07/15/1986
• Issued: 12/01/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Seiko Precision Incorporated (Seiko Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seikosha Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hoshino, Isamu, Sugita, Mitsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Grimm, Siegfried H.
• Application Number:
  US06/885,931
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 331/116 R, 331/116 FE, 331/158, 310/367, 310/369
• US Class Current: 331/158
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/0207 the vibration mode being harmonic
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/02157 Dimensional parameters, e.g. ratio between two dimension parameters, length, width or thickness
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 3/0307 Stabilisation of output, e.g. using crystal

Abstract

A planar type thickness shear mode quartz resonator which can be operated by an oscillation circuit free of any coils or condensers in the tuning circuit and in which the ratio between the diameter and the thickness of the resonator is so designed as to yield stable oscillation in the third overtone. The difference between the negative resistance of the oscillation circuit and the crystal impedance of the quartz resonator is greater in the third overtone than the difference in other oscillation modes.

Claims

1. An oscillator comprising a planar type thickness shear mode quartz resonator connected to a negative resistance oscillation circuit in which the proportion between the diameter and the thickness of the quartz resonator is so designed that the difference between the impedance of the quartz resonator and the negative resistance of the oscillation circuit is greater in the third overtone than in other oscillation modes.

2. The quartz resonator of claim 1 in which the proportion between the diameter and the thickness of the resonator is greater than 10 and less then 24.

3. The quartz resonator of claim 1 in which the oscillation circuit comprises a tuning circuit free of any coils and condensers.

4. The quartz resonator of claim 3 in which the resonator is driven in third overtone.

5. The quartz resonator of claim 1 in which the impedance of the resonator has been determined by trimming the outer periphery thereof at one point on the circumference.

6. In a negative resistance oscillation circuit operable in a plurality of oscillation modes:

a planar type thickness shear mode AT-cut quartz resonator having a diameter and a thickness, the ratio between the diameter and the thickness of said resonator being so designed as to obtain more stable oscillation in the third overtone mode than in other oscillation modes.

7. The quartz resonator of claim 6 in which the proportion between the diameter and the thickness of the resonator is greater than 10 and less than 24.

8. The quartz resonator of claim 6 in which the oscillation circuit comprises a tuning circuit free of any coils and condensers.

9. The quartz resonator of claim 6 in which the impedance of the resonator has been determined by trimming the outer periphery thereof at one point on the circumference.

10. The quartz resonator of claim 6 in which the difference between the impedance of the resonator and the negative resistance of the oscillation circuit is greater in the third overton