US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Nov. 25 for "Piezoelectric actuator, liquid ejecting head, and recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,447, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Piezoelectric actuator, liquid ejecting head, and recording apparatus" was invented by Naoto Yokoyama (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of individual electrodes each extending in a first direction are arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. A piezoelectric actuator has a drive region where the individual electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a common electrode overlap as viewed in a stack direction and a non-drive region, adjacent to the drive region, where the individual electrode, the piezoelectric layer, and...