To suppress degradation of characteristics, a high frequency module includes a mounting substrate, a first signal terminal, a second signal terminal, and ground terminals, and a hybrid filter. The hybrid filter is coupled between the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal. The hybrid filter includes an acoustic wave filter having at least one acoustic wave resonator, a first inductor, and a capacitor. The pass band width of the hybrid filter is larger than that of the acoustic wave resonator. A resin layer is disposed on a first principal surface of the mounting substrate. The resin layer covers at least part of the acoustic wave filter. A metal electrode layer covers at least part of the resin layer, and is coupled to the ground terminals. The second inductor is coupled between the hybrid filter and the second signal terminal.

An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, and elastic wave elements on the piezoelectric substrate and including IDT electrodes, respectively. The IDT electrode of a first of the elastic wave elements includes first and second busbars, and the IDT electrode of a second of the elastic wave elements includes third and fourth busbars. The second busbar and the third busbar extend parallel or substantially parallel to each other, and are spaced by a gap in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an elastic-wave propagating direction. Each of the second and third busbars includes first and second electrode layers at least a portion of which is laminated on the first electrode layer. The second electrode layer of the second busbar is cut in at least one location in a direction crossing the elastic-wave propagating direction.

An extractor includes a band elimination filter that is connected between a common terminal and a first input-output terminal and that has a stop band equal or substantially equal to a first frequency band, and a band pass filter that is connected between the common terminal and a second input-output terminal and that has a pass band equal or substantially equal to a second frequency band that overlaps the first frequency band. The band pass filter includes, series arm resonators, three or more parallel arm resonators, and three or more inductors that are connected between the ground and the parallel arm resonators. The L value of a first inductor that is connected and nearest to the common terminal is smaller than the L value of a third inductor, and the L value of a second inductor that is connected and second-nearest to the common terminal is smaller than the L value of the third inductor.

A filter device includes a filter between an input terminal and an output terminal, and an additional circuit connected in parallel with the filter between the input terminal and the output terminal. The additional circuit includes at least two longitudinally coupled resonators connected in parallel with each other and including longitudinally coupled resonators, and at least one capacitance element between the input terminal and the at least two longitudinally coupled resonators or between the output terminal and the at least two longitudinally coupled resonators. The average pitch of a plurality of electrode fingers of IDT electrodes of the longitudinally coupled resonator and the average pitch of a plurality of electrode fingers of IDT electrodes of the longitudinally coupled resonator are different from each other.

An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, and elastic wave elements on the piezoelectric substrate and including IDT electrodes, respectively. The IDT electrode of a first of the elastic wave elements includes first and second busbars, and the IDT electrode of a second of the elastic wave elements includes third and fourth busbars. The second busbar and the third busbar extend parallel or substantially parallel to each other, and are spaced by a gap in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an elastic-wave propagating direction. Each of the second and third busbars includes first and second electrode layers at least a portion of which is laminated on the first electrode layer. The second electrode layer of the second busbar is cut in at least one location in a direction crossing the elastic-wave propagating direction.

A multi-resonator filter has a signal input terminal, a signal output terminal, and a plurality of resonator components. The plurality of resonator components include an input resonator component coupled to the signal input terminal, an output resonator component coupled to the signal output terminal, and at least one intermediate resonator component coupled between the input resonator component and the output resonator component. The input resonator component, output resonator component and the at least one intermediate resonator component are arranged in a sequence to define a signal path between the signal input terminal and the signal output terminal. The at least one intermediate resonator component includes at least one multiple resonator component, where each multiple resonator component includes a pair of individual resonators coupled in parallel where each individual resonator in a given pair of individual resonators has the same resonant frequency.

A communications module includes a module substrate composed of a plurality of insulating layers, a plurality of wiring layers, and a plurality of wiring vias; and a filter module disposed on the module substrate. At least one of the wiring layers overlaps the filter module in a thickness direction of the module substrate and is connected to a ground potential to function as a ground layer, and an entirety of at least one of the wiring layers and at least one of the wiring vias disposed in a first region in the thickness direction of the module substrate between the filter module and the ground layer are electrically connected to the filter module.

A guided surface acoustic wave (SAW) device includes a substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the substrate, and a transducer on the piezoelectric layer. The substrate is silicon, and has a crystalline orientation defined by a first Euler angle (), a second Euler angle (), and a third Euler angle (). The first Euler angle (), the second Euler angle (), and the third Euler angle () are chosen such that a velocity of wave propagation within the substrate is less than 6,000 m/s.

A surface acoustic wave resonator includes first and second surface acoustic wave resonator connected in series, and a third surface acoustic wave resonator connected in series with the second surface acoustic wave resonator. Each of the first to third surface acoustic wave resonators includes a pair of comb-shaped electrodes in which electrode fingers of one of the comb-shaped electrodes and electrode fingers of the other one of the comb-shaped electrodes are alternately arranged. The second surface acoustic wave resonator has a lower ratio of a width of the electrode fingers to a pitch between the electrode fingers than the first and third surface acoustic wave resonators.

A filter module includes an inductor, a filter including first wiring, and second wiring between the inductor and the first wiring and being a direct-current floating potential. The inductor and the first wiring are magnetically coupled, the inductor and the second wiring are magnetically coupled, and the first wiring and the second wiring are capacitively coupled.