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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:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310323 ; 310317 ;
Abstract
A vibration linear motor utilizing a composite vibration of a bending vibration and a longitudinal vibration, provided with a plate-shaped elastic member having a plate-shaped main body portion and a pair of driving force output portions provided on the surface of the main body portion for driving a driven object; and an electromechanical converting element adhered to the elastic member and adapted to generate the composite vibration, wherein the electromechanical converting element is provided on the surface, between the paired driving force output portions, of the main body portion.