US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Oct. 20 for "Vibration device and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,570, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Vibration device and imaging device" was invented by Nobumasa Kitamori (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuuki Ishii (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration device includes a light transmitter, a vibrator to support the light transmitter, a piezoelectric body located on or in the vibrator to vibrate the vibrator, and a first metal structure located, in a compressed state, between the light transmitter and a support that supports the light transmitter, and having a smaller Young's modulus than the light transmitter and the support that s...