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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2003
Hideki Kuwajima, Kyoto, JP;
Kaoru Matsuoka, Osaka, JP;
Hideki Kuwajima, Kyoto, JP;
Kaoru Matsuoka, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A piezoelectric actuator with a reinforced bending mode to suppress bending resonance caused by extension/contraction movements of the piezoelectric actuator and a disk drive using the piezoelectric actuator are provided. A flexible substrate is separated by a slit. A first piezoelectric element unit and a second piezoelectric element unit, both showing extension/contraction displacement, are disposed on one of the slit-separated flexible substrates, respectively. A coupling portion is provided to couple the separated flexible substrates across the slit. The coupling portion is provided at a position corresponding to an antinode of a primary bending mode of the first and second piezoelectric element units being respectively fixed in both ends.