US Patent Issued to Minebea Mitsumi on Feb. 17 for "Vibration actuator and vibration presenting apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,076, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Minebea Mitsumi Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Vibration actuator and vibration presenting apparatus" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Tomoya Ishitani (Tokyo), Junichi Hashino (Tokyo) and Soichi Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vibration actuator including: a movable part that gives vibration to a vibration presenting part that receives a pressing operation; a vibration generating part that generates the vibration of the movable part in accordance with the pressing operation; a base part; and an elastic support part. The movable part includes: a load detecting part provid...