| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080211881 | PIEZOELECTRIC MEMBER, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS UTILIZING PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - The invention provides a piezoelectric film having a large piezoelectric property, and a piezoelectric element, a liquid discharge head and a liquid discharge apparatus utilizing the same. The piezoelectric film is formed by an epitaxial oxide of <100> orientation having at least a tetragonal crystal structure, in which the oxide is a perovskite type composite oxide represented by a general formula ABO | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080307622 | Method for producing piezoelectric film actuator, and composite structure having piezoelectric layer - A method for producing a piezoelectric film actuator is provided. This method includes the steps of preparing an intermediate transfer member having a porous layer formed thereon, with a vibrating plate and a piezoelectric layer being provided on the porous layer; bonding the vibrating plate to a nozzle substrate to form a composite structure; and separating the intermediate transfer member from the composite structure at the porous layer to transfer the vibrating plate and the piezoelectric layer to the nozzle substrate. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090026408 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL - The present invention provides a piezoelectric material which can be applied even to the MEMS technique, exhibits satisfactory piezoelectricity even at high ambient temperatures and is environmentally clean, namely, a piezoelectric material including an oxide obtained by forming a solid solution composed of two perovskite oxides A(1)B(1)O | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090091215 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR AND LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD USING THE SAME - The piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric film between two electrode layers and a diaphragm. Assuming that: each elastic coefficient of all materials is isotropic and a distortion amount of the piezoelectric film by an electric field is isotropic in all in-plane directions; a point located on a diaphragm surface and having a maximum displacement when a predetermined electric field is applied to distort the piezoelectric film, is expressed by Pδ | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090140197 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, AND LIQUID JET HEAD AND ULTRASONIC MOTOR USING THE PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - There is disclosed a piezoelectric element having, on a substrate, a piezoelectric body and a pair of electrodes which come in contact with the piezoelectric body, wherein the piezoelectric body consists of a perovskite type oxide represented by the following formula (1): | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090273257 | PIEZOELECTRIC SUBSTANCE, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS USING PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A piezoelectric substance which is made of oxide with perovskite type structure which is made of ABO | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090315432 | METAL OXIDE, PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL AND PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - Provided are a piezoelectric material without using lead or an alkali metal, the piezoelectric material having a stable crystal structure in a wide temperature range, high insulation property, and high piezoelectric property, and a piezoelectric element using the piezoelectric material, in which the piezoelectric material is made of a metal oxide having a tetragonal crystal structure and expressed by Ba(Si | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100225712 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing an inkjet head includes providing a piezoelectric substrate having a porous structure, a diaphragm on the porous structure, and a piezoelectric substance layer on the diaphragm, and forming a cavity by etching out the porous structure from the piezoelectric substrate. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110018945 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, INK JET HEAD AND PRODUCING METHOD FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A piezoelectric element comprises a piezoelectric film disposed on a substrate and a pair of electrodes disposed in contact with the piezoelectric film and utilizing a bending mode. The piezoelectric film includes domains constituted of a tetragonal crystal and including an a-domain which is formed by a crystal having a (100) plane parallel to the film surface of the piezoelectric film, the a-domains include an A-domain having a normal axis of (001) plane substantially parallel to a principal bending direction of the piezoelectric film and a B-domain having a normal axis of (001) plane substantially perpendicular to the principal bending direction of the piezoelectric film, and the A-domains have a volume proportion larger than 50 vol % with respect to the sum of the volume of the A-domains and the volume of the B-domains. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110120494 | DUST REMOVING DEVICE AND DUST REMOVING METHOD - In a piezoelectric device, a first electrode and a second electrode are disposed to be opposed to each other on plate surfaces of the piezoelectric device, a first electrode plane of the piezoelectric device is fixedly bonded to a plate surface of a vibrating plate, a piezoelectric material forming the piezoelectric device is polarized in a direction parallel to the first electrode plane, the piezoelectric device is fixed to a base through a second electrode plane of the piezoelectric device, and the piezoelectric device generates a thickness-shear vibration with the fixed second electrode plane being a reference plane. The piezoelectric vibration generated by the piezoelectric device generates a flexural vibration in the vibrating plate, to thereby remove dust adhering to a surface of the vibrating plate. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110128327 | PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC, METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, AND ULTRASONIC MOTOR - A piezoelectric ceramic that includes barium titanate and 0.04 mass % or more and 0.20 mass % or less manganese relative to barium titanate. The piezoelectric ceramic is composed of crystal grains. The crystal grains include crystal grains A having an equivalent circular diameter of 30 μm or more and 300 μm or less and crystal grains B having an equivalent circular diameter of 0.5 μm or more and 3 μm or less. The crystal grains A and the crystal grains B individually form aggregates and the aggregates of the crystal grains A and the aggregates of the crystal grains B form a sea-island structure. | 06-02-2011 |