ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,183, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vibration generation device, vibration reduction device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Shinichi Wakabayashi (Suwa, Japan) and Tatsuya Takahashi (Azumino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration generation device includes: a base configured to transmit vibration to an object; a pendulum provided at the base swingably around a rotation axis; and at least one driving unit including a magnet that is provided at the pendulum and a coil that is provided at a configuration other than the pendulum and that is disposed to face the magnet in a non-contact ...