US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Aug. 4 for "Piezoelectric actuator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,919, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Piezoelectric actuator" was invented by Tetsuya Shimoda (Kirishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric actuator includes a body portion including a layered piezoelectric element layered in a Y-axis direction of an orthogonal coordinate system XYZ, the body portion extending along a Z-axis direction. The body portion includes a first piezoelectric element that displaces a tip portion in an X-axis direction, a second piezoelectric element that displaces the tip portion in the Y-axis direction, and a third piezoelectric element that displaces the tip ...