US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 1 for "Piezoelectric transducer including fixing portion overlapping base portion and gap between beam portions" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,386, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Piezoelectric transducer including fixing portion overlapping base portion and gap between beam portions" was invented by Seiji Umezawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shinsuke Ikeuchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Fumiya Kurokawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Nobuyoshi Adachi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yoichi Mochida (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric transducer includes beam portions supported by a base portion at an end portion and extending in a direction away from the base portion above the base portion. Each beam portion includes a piezoelectr...