US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY on July 22 for "Vibration power generation device and moving object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,395, issued on July 22, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (Ishikawa, Japan).

"Vibration power generation device and moving object" was invented by Takahiro Kiwata (Ishikawa, Japan), Toshiyuki Ueno (Ishikawa, Japan), Kazuyuki Kitajima (Shizuoka, Japan) and Manabu Yamamoto (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration power generation device that further improves power generation efficiency includes a vibration exciting body in which vibration is caused by a flowing fluid, a vibrated body that is oscillatable and connected to the vibration excit...