ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,427, issued on June 17, was assigned to Stanley Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Light deflector" was invented by Tomotaka Asari (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light deflector 2 includes: a mirror section 9 that reflects light; a movable frame 8 provided in such a manner as to surround the mirror section 9; a pair of torsion bars 13a and 13b having one end of each torsion bar connected to the mirror section 9 and the other end thereof connected to the movable frame 8 on a Y-axis; and semi-annular piezoelectric actuators 10a and 10b that are provided on the movable frame 8 and rotate the torsion bars 13a and 13b around the Y-axis ...