Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Oscillatory wave motor
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Application No.: US15165167Application Date: 2016-05-26
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Publication No.: US10177687B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Makoto Oikawa
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JP2015-110427 20150529
- Main IPC: H02N2/04
- IPC: H02N2/04 ; H01L41/09 ; H02N2/02 ; H02N2/00

Abstract:
An oscillatory wave motor includes a piezoelectric element, an elastic member that includes a projecting portion, a friction member that moves relative to the elastic member and includes a contact surface in contact with the projecting portion, and pressing unit that brings the projecting portion into contact under pressure with the contact surface in a pressing direction that is a direction of a perpendicular line of the contact surface. The projecting portion includes a spherical portion formed in a center of the projecting portion, a contact portion formed on or near a center of the spherical portion, a flat portion formed around the spherical portion, and a corner portion formed around the flat portion. The spherical portion, the flat portion and the corner portion are configured to have a uniform thickness and to have flexibility in the pressing direction with the contact portion as a center.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160352257A1 OSCILLATORY WAVE MOTOR Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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