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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174344 | Linear electromagnetic actuator First and second projections are formed to protrude toward a guide rail from both sides of a slide table. Third and fourth projections are formed to protrude toward the slide table from both sides of the guide rail. A plurality of balls are arranged in clearances be... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8134438 | Electromechanical actuator The present invention is directed to an inductively driven electromagnetic linear actuator arrangement employing eddy currents induced in an armature by a drive coil to drive the armature. Eddy current focusing fields (Lorentz force) are employed to direct the induc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134437 | Eddy current inductive drive electromechanical linear actuator and switching arrangement The present invention is directed to an inductively driven electromagnetic linear actuator arrangement employing eddy currents induced by a fixed drive coil to drive its armature. Eddy current focusing fields are employed to direct the eddy currents using Lorentz fo... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8022799 | Thin multi-function vibration actuator A magnetic circuit unit includes a pole piece, a magnet, and a yoke and a suspension made of a magnetic material. A magnetic gap is formed between an inner circumferential side surface of the suspension and a circumference of the pole piece. Accordingly, it is possi... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7932797 | Electromagnetic drive system An electromagnetic drive includes a drive plate disposed in a magnetic field. The drive plate includes a non-conductive medium with a first plurality of linear conductive elements arranged parallel to a first axis. The first plurality of linear conductive elements c... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924127 | Electro-magnetic force driving actuator and circuit breaker using the same An electromagnetic force driving actuator and a circuit breaker using the same is disclosed. The actuator comprises a casing that forms two paths having a certain length in longitudinal direction, and forms a middle wall by the two paths; a main magnetic field gener... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7741940 | Actuator device for optical device and image-capture apparatus Disclosed is an actuator device for an optical device. The actuator device includes a core arranged in an optical device inside of which an optical path passes through, a coil wound around the core, and a rotational magnet formed into an approximately cylindrical sh... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7705702 | Actuator The disclosed device and method relate to an actuator. The actuator includes a field structure assembly having an arrangement of permanent magnets and magnetically soft components, and a moving coil assembly. The arrangement of permanent magnets includes a conical m... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7683749 | Linear electromagnetic actuator First and second projections are formed to protrude toward a guide rail from both sides of a slide table. Third and fourth projections are formed to protrude toward the slide table from both sides of the guide rail. A plurality of balls are arranged in clearances be... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7619498 | Vibrator A vibrator has a cup-shaped casing, a substrate provided to close an upper end opening of the casing, a magnetic circuit assembly provided in the casing, a first suspension and a second suspension that support the magnetic circuit assembly from above and below, and ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616365 | Electromagnetic micro actuator and method of manufacturing the same A micro actuator and a method of manufacturing the micro actuator. A micro actuator includes a base frame, a first movable part, a second movable part, at least one pair of permanent magnets, a coil part, and a deformation suppression portion. The first movable part... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7525403 | Vibration device Disclosed is a vibration device in which an elastic unit is formed on upper and/or lower surface of a weight, and the weight for generating vibration is extended in a circumferential direction. Also, a vibration device with a sound function, which gives an improved ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7420449 | Mirror actuating device for projection systems A magnetic actuator utilizes a single magnet and two voice coils to rotate a mirror between two angular positions with respect to a rest state. A magnetic field assembly applies magnetic flux across the voice coils. An upper plate and a lower plate are held together... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7336448 | Magnetic head actuator with equalized deviation A magnetic disk device comprises a magnetic disk in which a data zone is formed. An actuator has a voice coil and a head slider carrying a magnetic head, the actuator being swung to move the magnetic head over the disk between an innermost position of the data zone ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7286764 | Reconfigurable modulator-based optical add-and-drop multiplexer An optical add and drop multiplexer system comprising a first module for providing a first signal; a second module for providing a second signal; and a modulator for receiving a channel of the first signal at a first location, the first location configured to actuat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278149 | Magnet for actuator, actuator, and magnetizing device A magnet used for an actuator of an optical pickup has a magnetization pattern has two different pole areas adjacent with each other. At a corner part defined by the boundary line of the two pole areas, the pole area inside the corner part has a projection area, pro... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263199 | Microphone assembly An electromagnetic transducer is described including a magnet assembly (50) and a conductive drive coil (52). The magnet assembly provides an emanating magnetic field within which the drive coil is located. The drive coil is a flat ring coil having a w... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7256926 | Optical deflector An optical deflector includes a magnet unit, which generates a magnetic field, and a movable plate unit, which is placed in the magnetic field. The movable plate unit has an inner movable plate having a reflecting surface, an outer movable plate, two inner torsion b... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7224507 | Optical deflector An optical deflector includes a magnet unit and a movable plate unit. The movable plate unit has an inner movable plate having a reflecting surface, an outer movable plate, two inner torsion bars connecting the inner and outer movable plates, a support located outsi... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212647 | Vibration actuator device of portable terminal By having multiple air passage holes 10c in the housing 1 and by creating a clearance G2 between the outer surface of the yoke 20 and the inner surface of the housing 1, the measurement of the clearance being confined to a r... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7196449 | Two-axis device and manufacturing method therefor A two-axis device is provided. The two-axis device includes a first substrate having a plurality of electrodes, a first connecting layer located on the first substrate, an actuating layer, a second connecting layer and a cover. The actuating layer is connected to th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7177081 | High contrast grating light valve type device A grating light valve has with a plurality of spaced reflective ribbons are spatially arranged over a substrate with reflective surfaces. The grating light valve is configured to optimized the conditions for constructive and destructive interference with an incident... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164336 | Actuator for a fluid valve The invention relates to an actuator for actuating a valve installed in a hydraulic or compressed air system comprising a coil support which can be displaced by means of air space induction in a magnetically conducting housing on a magnetic cylinder composed of a pe... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7142743 | Latching mechanism for magnetically actuated micro-electro-mechanical devices A latching mechanism is provided for selectively latching mirrors in an optical switch. The mirrors are selectively movable between rest and actuated positions. The latching mechanism provides stable latching of mirrors in an actuated position, i.e., without power b... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7126250 | Apparatus comprising an array of tightly spaced rotatable optical elements with two axes of rotation In one embodiment, a rotatable element includes a plate, a plate support, a cradle, and a cradle support. The plate is coupled to the cradle via the plate support. The cradle is coupled to a surrounding frame by the cradle support. The plate and cradle are suspended... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7112910 | Brushless DC electric motor An electric motor comprises a housing, a magnetic rotor and a stator which comprises at least one circuit board. The magnetic rotor comprises a disk with circumferentially arrayed magnetic poles. The circuit board on each side comprises one layer of circumferentiall... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110564 | Multi-function actuator Disclosed is a multi-function actuator comprising: a case having an internal space; a vibrating coil installed in the case for generating vibration; a diaphragm for generating sound with an outer end being fixed to the upper end of the case; a voice coil fixedly ins... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7098571 | Electrostatic actuator for microelectromechanical systems and methods of fabrication A method and apparatus are described that may be used to provide decoupled rotation of structures about different pivot points. The apparatus may include one or more fixed blades mounted to a frame or substrate, one or more movable blades mounted to each structure t... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099066 | Micromirror unit and method of making the same A method is provided for making a micromirror unit which includes a frame, a mirror forming base, and bridges connecting the frame to the mirror forming base. The method includes the following steps. First, a first mask pattern is formed on a substrate for masking p... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095549 | Two-dimensional optical deflector with minimized crosstalk An optical deflector includes a support, a frame-like outer movable plate positioned inside the support, two outer torsion bars connecting the support and outer movable plate, an inner movable plate positioned inside the outer movable plate, two inner torsion bars c... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7071594 | MEMS scanner with dual magnetic and capacitive drive A MEMS scanning device includes more than one type of actuation. In one approach capacitive and magnetic drives combine to move a portion of the device along a common path. In one such structure, the capacitive drive comes from interleaved combs. In another approach... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068372 | MEMS interferometer-based reconfigurable optical add-and-drop multiplexor The interferometer comprises a beam splitter, a mirror and a phase modulator. The beam splitter splits a signal into a first portion and a second portion. The mirror reflects the first portion. The first portion includes an optical path length, which is fixed. The p... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7060489 | Protein chip holding tool The present invention is object to provide a protein chip holding tool that is capable of effectively executing analysis work by preventing protein from being denatured and/or inactivated due to drying while attempting to make the amount of spotting of protein test ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058195 | Speaker assembly An electromagnetic transducer is described including a magnet assembly (50) and a conductive drive coil (52). The magnet assembly provides an emanating magnetic field within which the drive coil is located. The drive coil is a flat ring coil having a w... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057819 | High contrast tilting ribbon blazed grating The light modulator includes elongated elements and a support structure coupled to the elongated elements. Each element includes one or more lengthwise slits within an active optical area, and a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective planar surfac... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054515 | Diffractive light modulator-based dynamic equalizer with integrated spectral monitor An integrated device of the present invention comprises free-space optics, a bi-directional multiplexor/de-multiplexor, a diffractive light modulator, a beam splitter, an optical performance monitor, and a controller. The free-space optics collimate, transform and i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049164 | Microelectronic mechanical system and methods The current invention provides for encapsulated release structures, intermediates thereof and methods for their fabrication. The multi-layer structure has a capping layer, that preferably comprises silicon oxide and/or silicon nitride, and which is formed over an et... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042611 | Pre-deflected bias ribbons A modulator for and a method of modulating an incident beam of light including means for supporting a plurality of active elements and a plurality of bias elements, each active and bias element including a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective pl... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040481 | Apparatus, method of manufacturing and method of using a linear actuator A linear actuator, method of manufacturing and method of using the linear actuator are provided. The invention includes a linear actuator having a plurality of annular magnets surrounded by a bobbin assembly having a coil system. The plurality of annular magnets can... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038335 | Vertical vibrator A vertical vibrator is disclosed. The vibrator comprises a casing, a magnetic field part including a yoke and a magnet fixed to an inner surface of the yoke, a spring member fixed at one end to the casing and at the other end to the magnetic field part, a vibration ... | 05/02/2006 |
