US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Aug. 11 for "Piezoelectric vibrating substrate and piezoelectric vibrating element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,589, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya-City, Japan).

"Piezoelectric vibrating substrate and piezoelectric vibrating element" was invented by Tomoyoshi Tai (Inazawa-City, Japan), Yudai Uno (Nagoya-City, Japan), Keiichiro Asai (Nagoya-City, Japan), Ryosuke Hattori (Ichinomiya-City, Japan), Masato Niwa (Inuyama-City, Japan) and Masahiko Namerikawa (Seto-City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric vibrating device includes a piezoelectric layer composed of a bulk piezoelectric material, a lower electrode on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer and a supporting substrate bonded with the lo...