US Patent Issued to CAIRDAC on July 21 for "Pendular unit with a monolithic inertial mass mounted on a piezoelectric beam, in particular for an energy harvester in a leadless autonomous cardiac capsule" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,314, issued on July 21, was assigned to CAIRDAC (Antony, France).

"Pendular unit with a monolithic inertial mass mounted on a piezoelectric beam, in particular for an energy harvester in a leadless autonomous cardiac capsule" was invented by Willy Regnier (Longjumeau, France) and An Nguyen-Dinh (La Riche, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pendular unit comprises a piezoelectric transducer beam (22), and an inertial mass mounted at the free distal end of the beam (22). The inertial mass (26) is a monolithic part including a cavity in the form of an axial slit (64), with two opposite longitudinal surfaces (74) extending along a...