US Patent Issued to TDK on March 24 for "Piezoelectric actuator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,416, issued on March 24, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Piezoelectric actuator" was invented by Shuto Ono (Tokyo), Satoshi Sasaki (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Satoh (Tokyo) and Keiji Oguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element having a rectangular shape, a first supporter, and a second supporter. The piezoelectric element includes a pair of main surfaces opposing each other, a first end surface and a second end surface opposing each other in a long side direction of the pair of main surfaces, and a first side surface and a second side surface opposing each other in a short side di...