US Patent Issued to Minebea Mitsumi on Sept. 22 for "Vibration actuator with moving coil and moving magnetic assembly having elastic parts" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,440, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Minebea Mitsumi Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Vibration actuator with moving coil and moving magnetic assembly having elastic parts" was invented by Yosuke Kinoshita (Tokyo), Shigeyuki Shimomura (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Maeda (Tokyo), Shigenori Inamoto (Tokyo) and Chikara Sekiguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This vibration actuator includes: a housing; a first movable part that has a magnet part and is disposed in such a manner as to be capable of reciprocating in a vibration direction that is along the axial direction, such reciprocation being within the housing and via a first elastic support...