Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Piezoelectric drive device and robot
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Application No.: US16997956Application Date: 2020-08-20
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Publication No.: US11381178B2Publication Date: 2022-07-05
- Inventor: Tomohisa Iwazaki , Yutaka Arakawa
- Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agent Gang Yu
- Priority: JPJP2019-151027 20190821
- Main IPC: H02N2/14
- IPC: H02N2/14 ; H02N2/10 ; B25J9/06 ; H01L41/04 ; H02N2/12

Abstract:
A piezoelectric drive device includes a rotor having a driven part and rotating around a rotation axis, a vibrating unit having a piezoelectric element and applying a drive force for rotating the rotor to the driven part by displacement of the piezoelectric element, and a bearing supporting the rotor. The driven part has a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion sequentially connected, the first portion has a predetermined region along an axial direction of the rotation axis and coupled to an inner ring of the bearing within the predetermined region, the second portion overlaps with the bearing in a plan view from the axial direction, and the third portion has a contact surface in contact with the vibrating unit at an inner side of both ends of the predetermined region in a plan view from a direction perpendicular to the axial direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210058010A1 PIEZOELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE AND ROBOT Public/Granted day:2021-02-25
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