US Patent Issued to PiAct on Oct. 20 for "Optical driving apparatus" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,086, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PiAct Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical driving apparatus" was invented by Yasushi Takahashi (Tokyo), Minoru Kuwana (Osaka, Japan), Yasuhiro Okamoto (Osaka, Japan), Takao Kobayashi (Osaka, Japan), Takehiro Kano (Osaka, Japan) and Sheng Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical driving apparatus, including: a fixed member; a driven member that is movable with respect to the fixed member; and a guiding member that restricts the driven member from moving in a predetermined direction with respect to the fixed member, wherein the guiding member has: a first groove in a V-shaped cross-sectional sh...