US Patent Issued to TDK on Oct. 27 for "Power generator and power generation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,849, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power generator and power generation system" was invented by Junichi Hoshino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generator including a piezoelectric element that includes a piezoelectric film, and a first electrode and a second electrode sandwiching the piezoelectric film therebetween; a deformable body that has Young's modulus larger than synthetic Young's modulus of the piezoelectric element; a first fixing member that directly fixes the piezoelectric element and the deformable body; and a second fixing member that is disposed apart from the first fixing member a...