US Patent Issued to PIONEER, PIONEER SMART SENSING INNOVATIONS on May 19 for "Actuator with a mirror provided with a permanent magnet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,870, issued on May 19, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo) and PIONEER SMART SENSING INNOVATIONS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Actuator with a mirror provided with a permanent magnet" was invented by Seiro Oshima (Kawagoe, Japan), Tomotaka Yabe (Kawagoe, Japan) and Shingo Iwasaki (Kawagoe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator includes a mirror and an electromagnet. The mirror is provided with a permanent magnet and is capable of oscillating about a first axis and a second axis as oscillation axes with respect to a reference plane. The second axis is non-parallel to the first axis. The electromagnet has a yoke and a coil and applies a ...