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Granted Patent B2
US 9,630,213 · App. 14/502,004 · Granted Apr 25, 2017

Vibration actuator

Inventors: Shin Odajima (Tokyo, JP); Yuki Shoda (Tokyo, JP); Masaaki Takagi (Tokyo, JP); Yoshihide Tonogai (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
B06B1/045
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Patent No.
US 9,630,213
App. No.
14/502,004
Granted
Apr 25, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vibration actuator includes: a movable element that includes a magnet and moves reciprocatingly; first and second coils arranged to surround the magnet; a housing that includes a bottom portion and a lid portion that oppose each other in a movement direction of the movable element; and a plate-like magnetic body arranged at bottom portion of the housing, magnetic attraction being generated between the plate-like magnetic body and the magnet, and the movable element being drawn towards the bottom portion side.

Claims (9)

1. A vibration actuator comprising:

a movable element that includes a magnet and moves reciprocatingly;

a coil arranged to surround the magnet;

a housing that houses the movable element and the coil and includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion, where the first wall portion opposes the second wall portion in a movement direction of the movable element; and

a magnetic body fixed to the first wall portion and configured to draw the movable element towards the first wall portion by magnetic attraction generated between the magnetic body and the magnet.

2. The vibration actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

the magnetic body is arranged at a non-opposing surface section of the first wall portion that is other than an opposing surface section of the first wall portion opposing an end surface of the movable element in the movement direction of the movable element.

3. The vibration actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

the coil receives input of a driving signal that causes the movable element to move from the first wall portion to the second wall portion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 20, 2015
From: ODAJIMA, SHIN; SHODA, YUKI; TAKAGI, MASAAKI; TONOGAI, YOSHIHIDE
To: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 034996/0539 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-204261 · Sep 30, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150148108A1 · May 28, 2015