ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,610, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to OMRON HEALTHCARE Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Pump structure" was invented by Yuuki Uchida (Tokyo), Takanori Nishioka (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshihide Tokko (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshihiko Sano (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a technology that can achieve an improvement in the characteristics of a pump configured to pump a fluid by bending vibration of a plate-shaped piezoelectric actuator and downsizing of the pump. A pump structure according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an actuator capable of bending vibration, a fixing portion disposed to surround the actuator, an...