ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,571, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Optical module" was invented by Daiki Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yoshihisa Warashina (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a mirror unit configured to have a movable mirror part, a magnet part configured to have upper and bottom surfaces and a side surface and generate a magnetic field acting on the movable mirror part, and a holding member configured to hold the magnet part. The magnet part has a Halbach structure including a first magnet having a force to act in a first direction and a second magnet having a ...