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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1994
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A humidity-sensitive actuator includes a plate made of piezoelectric electrostrictive ceramic having a variable electric resistance region having a high moisture absorbing capability and defining a flat electrode attachment surface, and a high, fixed electric resistance region having a low moisture absorbing capability and defining a flat electrode attachment surface. The variable electric resistance region is joined to the high, fixed electric resistance region with electrodes on the flat electrode attachment surface on opposite sides of the plate for applying an electric voltage transversely through the plate. Under a high humidity condition, when the voltage is applied transversely across the plate through the electrodes by a power supply, an electric field is applied in different proportions to the variable and high, fixed electric resistance regions, which thereby contract by smaller and larger lengths, respectively, and produce a flexural displacement of the plate to serve as a humidity-sensitive actuator.