In a multiplexer, input or output terminals of four acoustic wave filters are connected to, among a plurality of terminals provided on piezoelectric substrates, antenna terminals connected to an antenna connection terminal; the four acoustic wave filters include a first acoustic wave filter and a second acoustic wave filter that is located at a farther position from the antenna connection terminal than a position of the first acoustic wave filter in a plan view of a substrate; and among the plurality of terminals, the terminals located at the closest position to the antenna connection terminal in the plan view of the substrate are connected to the second acoustic wave filter as the antenna terminals.

An acoustic wave filter device includes at least one series arm resonator and a parallel arm resonator. The series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonator are defined by acoustic wave resonators, an interdigital transducer electrode of the series arm resonators is an apodized interdigital transducer electrode subjected to apodization weighting, in the interdigital transducer electrode of the parallel arm resonator, an intersecting portion includes a central region and low acoustic velocity regions provided at both outer side portions of the central portion, an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave in the low acoustic velocity region is lower than an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave in the central region, and a high acoustic velocity region where an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave is higher than that of the low acoustic velocity region is provided at an outer side portion of each of the low acoustic velocity regions.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave resonator having at least two resonant frequencies. An acoustic wave filter can include series acoustic wave resonators and shunt acoustic wave resonators together arranged to filter a radio frequency signal. A first shunt resonator of the shunt acoustic wave resonators can include an interdigital transducer electrode and have at least a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency. Related acoustic wave resonators, multiplexers, wireless devices, and methods are disclosed.

An electronic filter includes a plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in series between an input port and an output port, a plurality of parallel arm acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in parallel and electrically connected on first sides between respective ones of the plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators and electrically connected on second sides to ground, and at least one additional acoustic wave resonator electrically connected in parallel to one of one of the plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators or one of the plurality of parallel arm acoustic wave resonators and having a temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) lower than a TCF of the acoustic wave resonator to which it is electrically connected in parallel.

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 electronic filter includes a plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in series between an input port and an output port, a plurality of parallel arm acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in parallel and electrically connected on first sides between respective ones of the plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators and electrically connected on second sides to ground, and at least one additional acoustic wave resonator electrically connected in parallel to one of one of the plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators or one of the plurality of parallel arm acoustic wave resonators and having a temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) lower than a TCF of the acoustic wave resonator to which it is electrically connected in parallel.

An elastic wave device includes first and second longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave elements aligned on a piezoelectric substrate. A second reflector of the first longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave element and a third reflector of the second longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave element are adjacent to each other in an elastic wave propagation direction. A ground interconnection extends in a direction intersecting with the elastic wave propagation direction and in a region between the second reflector and the third reflector. A gap in one portion of the ground interconnection includes a different acoustic velocity portion where an acoustic velocity is different from an acoustic velocity in another portion of the ground interconnection.

An acoustic wave sensor device comprises a first interdigitated transducer, a first reflection structure, a second reflection structure, a first resonance cavity comprising a first upper surface and formed between the first interdigitated transducer and the first reflection structure, and a second resonance cavity comprising a second upper surface and formed between the first interdigitated transducer and the second reflection structure. At least one of the first and second upper surfaces is covered at least partly by a metalization layer or a passivation layer. The present invention relates also to an acoustic wave sensor assembly.

An acoustic wave sensor device comprises a quartz material layer surface; arranged along a first axis, a first interdigitated transducer disposed over the planar surface of the quartz material layer, a first reflection structure disposed over the planar surface of the quartz material layer, and a second reflection structure disposed over the planar surface of the quartz material layer; and arranged along a second axis, a second interdigitated transducer disposed over the planar surface of the quartz material layer, a third reflection structure disposed over the planar surface of the quartz material layer, and a fourth reflection structure disposed over the planar surface of the quartz material layer; and wherein the first axis and the second axis are inclined to each other by a finite angle.

A multiplexer includes a transmission filter and a reception filter that are connected to a common terminal, and a cancellation circuit that is connected to the common terminal and a node on a transmission path and that offsets a component in a certain frequency band flowing through the transmission filter. The cancellation circuit includes a capacitive element connected to the common terminal, and a longitudinally-coupled resonator including a first end connected to the capacitive element and a second end connected to the node with no capacitive element interposed therebetween. An impedance in a reception band when viewing the cancellation circuit from the common terminal side is higher than an impedance in the reception band when viewing the cancellation circuit from the node side.