US Patent Issued to ROHM on May 13 for "Transducer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,061, issued on May 13, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transducer" was invented by Takashi Naiki (Kyoto, Japan) and Takaya Nagahata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transducer includes a piezoelectric element that includes a piezoelectric membrane which is interposed between a pair of electrodes, a membrane body that includes a vibration membrane displaceable in a membrane thickness direction, the piezoelectric element being laminated on the vibration membrane, a package that includes an internal space which houses the piezoelectric element and the membrane body, and an abutment pad that is disposed in th...