Patent ID: 7321279

Claim:
A surface acoustic wave element comprising: a pair of interdigital transducers arranged in parallel with a propagation direction of a surface acoustic wave; a reflector prepared at both sides of the interdigital transducers; and a coupling portion which mutually couples one end of a plurality of electrode fingers constituting one electrode portion of each interdigital transducer to be in common, wherein each of the electrode fingers includes a plurality of straight line portions and a bending portion between said straight line portions, wherein one of said straight line portions intersects with the coupling portion, wherein the bending portion formed in the interdigital transducer has an offset of λ/2 (λ: a wavelength of the surface acoustic wave) between one end side and the other end side of this bending portion, and wherein a gap of λ/2 is formed between the straight line portion to be connected to the one end side and the straight line portion to connected to the other end side.