ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,686, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Minebea Mitsumi Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Actuator" was invented by Tomoya Ishitani (Tokyo) and Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an actuator, the actuator comprising: an actuator body and a control device that includes a circuitry configured to supply a main driving current pulse and a sub-driving current pulse to the coil, both of which are driving current pulses for driving the operation device in one direction in a vibrating direction thereof, in accordance with a touch operation of an operation device supported so as to be elastically vibrated, the main driving ...