US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on April 14 for "Early-impact out-of-plane motion limiter for MEMS device" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,619, issued on April 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Early-impact out-of-plane motion limiter for MEMS device" was invented by Mikko Partanen (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical device having a mobile rotor and a fixed stator in a device plane, and a motion limiter that prevents the mobile rotor from contacting a fixed wall in a vertical direction that is perpendicular to the device plane. Moreover, the motion limiter extends between the rotor and the stator and includes a stopper lever that is configured to rotate out of the device plane."

The patent was ...