US Patent Issued to CANON on April 29 for "Motor having movable holding members, driving apparatus, lens apparatus, and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,065, issued on April 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Motor having movable holding members, driving apparatus, lens apparatus, and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiro Noguchi (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a vibrator, a contact member that contacts the vibrator, a first pressing unit that applies a pressing force in a first direction to the vibrator to bring the vibrator into contact with the contact member, a first holding member that holds the vibrator, a second holding member that holds the first holding member, and a second pressing unit that applies to the first holding member...