US Patent Issued to DENSO on Dec. 2 for "Piezoelectric element, piezoelectric device, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,137, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Piezoelectric element, piezoelectric device, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric element" was invented by Tomoya Jomori (Kariya, Japan), Ryuichiro Abe (Kariya, Japan), Daisuke Kobayashi (Kariya, Japan), Takahiro Higuchi (Kariya, Japan), Yutaka Hayakawa (Kariya, Japan), Minekazu Sakai (Kariya, Japan), Kazuaki Mawatari (Kariya, Japan), Yuji Koyama (Kariya, Japan) and Masaaki Tanaka (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric element includes a plurality of vibration regions that are separated from each other by a slit, and the slit is formed to ...