ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,068, issued on June 2, was assigned to Pioneer Corp. (Tokyo) and Pioneer Smart Sensing Innovations Corp. (Tokyo).
"Actuator" was invented by Shingo Iwasaki (Kawagoe, Japan), Seiro Oshima (Kawagoe, Japan) and Tomotaka Yabe (Kawagoe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A permanent magnet (21) is provided to the mirror (20). The mirror (20) can oscillate with respect to a reference plane (101), by using a first axis (201) and a second axis (202) not being parallel to the first axis (201) as oscillation axes. The first electromagnet (30) causes the mirror (20) to oscillate with respect to the first axis (201). The second electromagnet (4...