ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,790, issued on April 7, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Fluid control device" was invented by Nobuhira Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Yutoku Kawabata (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroki Achiwa (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid control device includes a pump and an outer housing containing the pump. The outer housing has a first outer wall that forms an internal space on a flat plate side of the pump and that has a through hole allowing the internal space and an external space to communicate with each other. The first outer wall includes an outer wall main plate facing a piezoelectric element, and a sid...