US Patent Issued to ROHM on Dec. 16 for "Transducer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,221, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transducer" was invented by Tatsuya Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshikazu Fujimori (Kyoto, Japan) and Noriyuki Shimoji (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transducer includes a substrate containing silicon and a piezoelectric element disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes a film body including a first surface and a second surface facing in mutually opposite directions in a thickness direction of the substrate and a frame body surrounding the film body when the film body is viewed from the thickness direction. The piezoelectric element is disposed ...