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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2003
Yosuke Mizuyama, Munakata, JP;
Shogo Matsubara, Kasuga, JP;
Hideaki Horio, Kasuya-gun, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a switching apparatus having a pair of electrodes including a first electrode and a third electrode, which are provided with a piezoelectric element therebetween and a pair of electrodes including a second electrode and a fourth electrode, which are provided adjacently to the pair of the first and third electrodes in a state where they are electrically insulated from the first and third electrodes, an electric field in a first direction is generated between the first electrode and the third electrode, and simultaneously an electric field in a second direction is generated between the second electrode and the fourth electrode.