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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. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 4/118 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 4/118 ;
Abstract
A piezoelectric ceramic for producing a piezoelectric element having sufficient strength and hardness in spite of compactness is provided. The piezoelectric ceramic contains lead titanate as a primary component and about 0.1 to 5% by weight of tungsten in terms of WO relative to the primary component, and about 75% or more of crystal particles constituting the piezoelectric ceramic have particle diameters distributed in the range of about 0.2 &mgr;m to 0.8 &mgr;m.