US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Nov. 3 for "Vibration device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,191, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Vibration device and electronic device" was invented by Shozo Otera (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yutaka Ishiura (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Jun Endo (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Michio Wada (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration device that includes a support member, an actuator, and a sensor that detects a force applied to a vibrated member and displacement of the vibrated member in a left-right direction. The support member includes a fixing portion, a vibration portion, and an elastically deformable portion connecting the fixing portion an...