US Patent Issued to MITSUMI ELECTRIC on April 14 for "Driving device, optical element driving device, camera module, and camera-equipped device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,955, issued on April 14, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Driving device, optical element driving device, camera module, and camera-equipped device" was invented by Yoichi Itagaki (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Ujiie (Tokyo), Shun Tsuchiya (Tokyo) and Fumiko Wako (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving device includes a resonance unit that has a pair of arm portions and resonates with vibration of a piezoelectric element, and a moving portion that abuts the pair of arm portions and is moved relative to the resonance unit due to vibration of the resonance unit, wherein a portion of the resonance unit and a portion of th...