US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 31 for "Fluid device and method for controlling fluid device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,983, issued on March 31, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Fluid device and method for controlling fluid device" was invented by Keita Kubo (Matsumoto, Japan), Chikara Kojima (Matsumoto, Japan), Mitsuru Miyasaka (Shiojiri, Japan), Yoshio Arai (Shiojiri, Japan) and Hiroto Tomioka (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid device 10 includes: a flow path 20 through which a fluid containing a fine particle flows; an ultrasonic transmitter 60 configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to the fluid in the flow path 20 in response to an input of a drive signal; a flow velocity measurement unit 40 configured to measur...