US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Nov. 4 for "Vibration actuator with elastic body with rectangualr frame body surrounding the plate and contact-type input device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,517, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Vibration actuator with elastic body with rectangualr frame body surrounding the plate and contact-type input device" was invented by Soichi Sato (Tokyo), Yosuke Kinoshita (Tokyo), Koichi Azumai (Tokyo) and Koji Aita (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration actuator according to the present invention comprises a plate that is a magnetic body, an electromagnet that is provided on the plate and is formed by providing a coil to a center part of a core, and an elastic body that supports the core on both sides of the coil and is connected to th...