ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,102, issued on July 1, was assigned to Minebea Mitsumi Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Vibration actuator and electronic device" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Chikara Sekiguchi (Tokyo), Shigeyuki Shimomura (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Kumanomido (Tokyo), Daisuke Kodama (Tokyo), Yuta Yoshii (Tokyo) and Shigenori Inamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This vibration actuator comprises a fixed body including a coil, a movable body including a magnet, and an elastic support part that supports the movable body so as to be freely moveable with respect to the fixed body. The elastic support part has an outer circumferential part fixed to the f...