ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,751, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Actuator device manufacturing method" was invented by Atsuya Iima (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yoshihisa Warashina (Hamamatsu, Japan), Daiki Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yasuyuki Sakakibara (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator device manufacturing method includes: a preparation step of preparing an actuator device including a support portion, a movable portion, a connection portion, and a metal member disposed such that a stress acts on the metal member when the movable portion oscillates; an oscillation step of oscillating the mov...