US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Actuator, liquid discharge head, and production method of actuator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,850, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Actuator, liquid discharge head, and production method of actuator" was invented by Akira Shimazu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator includes a piezoelectric element including a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode on a substrate in this order, a wiring line electrically connected to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode, and an insulation layer arranged to contact and cover the wiring line, wherein a thickness of the wiring line is less than a thickness of the insula...