US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Feb. 4 for "Method for producing piezoelectric actuator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,876, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Method for producing piezoelectric actuator" was invented by Harunobu Koike (Matsumoto, Japan), Takanori Aimono (Matsumoto, Japan), Masao Nakayama (Shiojiri, Japan), Motoki Takabe (Shiojiri, Japan), Koji Sumi (Shiojiri, Japan), Yasuhiro Itayama (Kai, Japan) and Toshihiro Shimizu (Fujimi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a piezoelectric actuator including forming a vibration plate, forming a first electrode on the vibration plate, forming a piezoelectric layer on the first electrode, and forming a second electrode on the piezoelectric layer, w...