ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,698, issued on June 30, was assigned to HOKUYO AUTOMATIC Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Beam, swinging element, and optical scanning apparatus" was invented by Kentaro Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Yoko Awata (Osaka, Japan) and Naoki Chatani (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam includes a base connecting part to be connected to a base substrate, a coil connecting part to be connected to a coil substrate, and a beam part coupling the base connecting part to the coil connecting part. At least one of the base connecting part and the coil connecting part has a soldering part to be soldered to the base substrate or the coil substrat...