US Patent Issued to Hutchinson Technology on Nov. 25 for "Shape memory alloy (SMA) bimorph actuators with reduced wire exit angle" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,481, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hutchinson Technology Inc. (Hutchinson, Minn.).

"Shape memory alloy (SMA) bimorph actuators with reduced wire exit angle" was invented by Ryan N. Ruzicka (Waconia, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator with a joint between an SMA wire the SMA actuator being disposed at a bottom surface of the SMA actuator. The SMA actuator can include at least one fixed end configured to be fixed to a carriage, at least one free end, at least one beam connecting the fixed end and the free end, and at least one SMA wire. The at least one SMA wi...