ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,693, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Motion limiter with reduced stiction" was invented by Pekka Lehtinen (Vantaa, Finland), Akira Konno (Helsinki) and Matti Liukku (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical element is provided that includes a first device part and a second device part, and a motion-limiting structure having a first stopper bump and a second stopper bump. The first and second stopper bumps extend from the first device part toward the second device part. When one of the device parts moves toward the other device part in the out-of-plane dire...