US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on March 25 for "Fluid control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,057, issued on March 25, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Fluid control device" was invented by Yutoku Kawabata (Kyoto, Japan) and Nobuhira Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid control device includes a first main plate, a second main plate, a driving body, a frame body, a plurality of support bodies, a plurality of gaps, a side wall member, a valve film, and a fixing member. A pump chamber is formed by a flat plate part consisting of the first main plate, the frame body, and the plurality of support bodies, and the second main plate and the side wall member. The valve film is dis...