US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 16 for "Piezoelectric coil and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,505, issued on June 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Piezoelectric coil and electronic apparatus" was invented by Shuta Kitade (Tokyo), Toru Udaka (Tokyo), Yuichi Ishida (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Nagai (Tokyo) and Miki Endo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object] To provide a technology such as a piezoelectric coil having higher energy conversion efficiency.[Solving Means] A piezoelectric coil according to the present technology includes a coil-like core material and a plurality of band-like piezoelectric materials. The plurality of piezoelectric materials is helically wound around the core material so as to be alternate...