US Patent Issued to NITTO DENKO on Sept. 9 for "Layered structure, piezoelectric device using the same, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,472, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Layered structure, piezoelectric device using the same, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric device" was invented by Daisuke Nakamura (Ibaraki, Japan), Naoki Nagaoka (Ibaraki, Japan), Manami Kurose (Ibaraki, Japan), Taketo Ishikawa (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hironobu Machinaga (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The occurrence of cracking in a functional layer is suppressed, while maintaining flexibility of a layered structure. The layered structure includes a polymer substrate, and a crystalline functional layer formed on the first surface of the...