US Patent Issued to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS on May 26 for "Actuator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,612, issued on May 26, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Actuator" was invented by Akira Mori (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator including a support having a tubular case and an outer frame inside the case, a movable body having a shaft at a center of the case and an inner frame holding the shaft from an outer peripheral side, a connection body connected with the outer frame and the inner frame and having at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity, and a magnet and a coil structured to relatively move the movable body along the shaft with respect to the support. The inner frame includ...