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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1999
Shigehisa Takase, Kanagawa, JP;
Isuzu Motors Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A piezoelectric actuator is disclosed, wherein a superposing pulse is generated just after a command pulse falls to thereby reduce oscillations of displacement in piezoelectric elements. In the piezoelectric actuator, an exciting pulse having a preselected pulse width is applied across terminals of the piezoelectric elements to cause strains in dimension for the piezoelectric elements. A pulse is superposed such that it is superposed at a timing a at which the exciting pulse is turned on, and then the exciting pulse is once turned off for a minute length of time, or an interval between b and b', and turned on again at c. The pulse to be superposed is supplied with a timing less than one-fourth a period of an oscillation of the piezoelectric elements. The piezoelectric actuator is effective to prevent the resonance phenomenon and preferably employed for the fuel-injection apparatus.