US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies, Nisshinbo Micro Devices on May 6 for "Electroacoustic transducer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,831, issued on May 6, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan) and Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. (Tokyo).

"Electroacoustic transducer" was invented by Tomoya Joke (Nisshin, Japan), Tetsuya Enomoto (Nisshin, Japan), Hideo Yamada (Nisshin, Japan), Shuji Katakami (Tokyo), Takashi Kakefuda (Tokyo) and Takahide Usui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroacoustic transducer includes a vibrating portion, a slit and an elastic film. The vibrating portion has a fixed end portion and a free end portion, and extends as a cantilever from the fixed end po...