Patent attributes
A multilayer pyroelectric element includes: a laminate body constituted by multiple pyroelectric body layers laminated in their thickness direction; internal electrode layers which are provided between the pyroelectric body layers, and one ends of which extend to the outer peripheries of the adjoining pyroelectric body layers; and external electrodes that connect the alternate internal electrode layers together at the one ends, wherein “x1>x3 AND x2>x3” are satisfied wherein x1 is a distance between a pair of first faces crossing at right angles with the laminating direction of the pyroelectric body layers, x2 is a distance between a pair of second faces crossing at right angles with the first faces and running parallel with the laminating direction of the pyroelectric body layers, and x3 a is a distance between a pair of third faces crossing at right angles with the first faces and also with the second faces.
