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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310328 ; 310366 ;
Abstract
In a piezoelectric actuator of the type which has a plurality of grooves on the outer side surface of the actuator body, mechanical reliability of the actuator is enhanced by providing grooves also in the respective layers of a material exhibiting electrostrictive effect located over and below the top and the bottom ends of the actuator. Moreover, a further improvement of mechanical strength can be attained by providing additional grooves onto the outer most grooves.