US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 4 for "Vibratory actuator control apparatus and imaging apparatus using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,379, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Vibratory actuator control apparatus and imaging apparatus using the same" was invented by Akio Atsuta (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromitsu Morita (Saitama, Japan) and Taiga Nagata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibratory actuator control apparatus includes a vibrating member, having an electro-mechanical energy conversion element, and a contact member that contacts the vibrating member. In a second case where the vibrating member and the contact member are brought from a stationary state to a stopped state, an operation sequentially passes through a third stage an...