US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on April 7 for "Fluid control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,794, issued on April 7, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Fluid control device" was invented by Kenjiro Okaguchi (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 piezoelectric pump, a piezoelectric pump, a container, and a control unit. The piezoelectric pumps and are connected in series. The piezoelectric pump is an upstream-side pump, and the piezoelectric pump is a downstream-side pump. The control unit controls driving of the piezoelectric pumps. The control unit makes the driving start timing of the piezoelectric pump on an upstream side ...