| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 417410200 | Having piezoelectric driven blade | 14 |
| 20090004034 | PIEZOELECTRIC FAN - A piezoelectric fan comprising two or more prongs and a bulk flow portion. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090162224 | PUMP USING UNIMORPH DIAPHRAGM - A pump using a piezoelectric diaphragm is designed to allow the diaphragm to be supported appropriately and accurately and to facilitate assembly of housing members. The peripheral edge of a sheet metal of a unimorph diaphragm | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100047092 | Piezoelectric fan, method of cooling a microelectronic device using same, and system containing same - A piezoelectric fan comprises a blade ( | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110014069 | PIEZOELECTRIC FAN DEVICE AND AIR-COOLING APPARATUS USING THE PIEZOELECTRIC FAN DEVICE - A piezoelectric fan device includes four piezoelectric fans that are arranged side-by-side in their width direction, and ends of the piezoelectric fans opposite to other ends in which the blades extend are coupled side-by-side and supported by a support. The piezoelectric fans include piezoelectric vibrators arranged to flexurally vibrate when a voltage is applied thereto and blades coupled to the piezoelectric vibrators such that the blades can be excited by the piezoelectric vibrators. Two central piezoelectric fans are driven in the same phase and the other two piezoelectric fans are driven in the opposite phase by a voltage applying device. Accordingly, not only vibrations of the centroid acting on the support but also moments about three axes are cancelled out. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110064594 | COOLING DEVICE - A piezoelectric fan includes a blade that is joined to a piezoelectric oscillator that bends in response to an application of a voltage, and the blade of the piezoelectric fan is arranged to swing in a space between neighboring heat dissipating fins of a heat sink. The formation of a hole in the blade increases the amplitude of the blade and also improves the sweep effect of sweeping high-temperature air in the vicinity of the wall of the heat dissipating fin, and thus, improves the cooling capability of the piezoelectric fan. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110070109 | PIEZOELECTRIC MICROBLOWER - A piezoelectric microblower includes a vibrating plate including a piezoelectric element and arranged to be driven in a bending mode by applying a voltage of a predetermined frequency to the piezoelectric element, and a blower body arranged to fix both ends or a periphery of the vibrating plate and to define a blower chamber between the blower body and the vibrating plate, an opening being provided in a portion of the blower body facing a central portion of the vibrating plate. In a portion of the blower chamber corresponding to the central portion of the vibrating plate, a partition is provided around the opening and a resonance space is defined inside of the partition. A size of the resonance space is set such that a driving frequency of the vibrating plate and a Helmholtz resonance frequency of the resonance space correspond to each other. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20120014820 | REPAIRING DEFECTS IN A PIEZOELECTRIC MEMBER - A solution ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120134858 | COOLING DEVICE - A piezoelectric fan includes a blade that is joined to a piezoelectric oscillator that bends in response to an application of a voltage, and the blade of the piezoelectric fan is arranged to swing in a space between neighboring heat dissipating fins of a heat sink. The formation of a hole in the blade increases the amplitude of the blade and also improves the sweep effect of sweeping high-temperature air in the vicinity of the wall of the heat dissipating fin, and thus, improves the cooling capability of the piezoelectric fan. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120244024 | COOLING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A cooling apparatus includes a base member, a flat piezoelectric actuator, at least one expansion mechanism, and a blade member. The flat piezoelectric actuator is configured to be connected at one end to the base member. At least one expansion mechanism is configured to be connected to the other end of the piezoelectric actuator and pivot by the swinging of the piezoelectric actuator. The blade member is configured to be connected to the expansion mechanism and swing by the pivoting of the expansion mechanism. The blade member performs a fanning action by the swinging of the piezoelectric actuator and the pivoting of the expansion mechanism if AC power is applied to the piezoelectric actuator. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20140169996 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR - A piezoelectric fan includes a vibration sheet, piezoelectric elements, a reinforcing sheet having one principal surface bonded to the vibration sheet and the other principal surface bonded to the piezoelectric element, and a fixing sheet. The vibration sheet is fixed to the inside of an electronic device by the fixing sheet which is disposed at one end of the vibration sheet. The total thickness of the reinforcing sheet and a region of the vibration sheet in which the piezoelectric elements are disposed is greater than the average thickness of a region of the vibration sheet in which the piezoelectric elements are not disposed. The coefficient of linear expansion of the vibration sheet is higher than that of the first and second piezoelectric elements. The reinforcing sheet is formed of a material having a coefficient of linear expansion and a modulus of elasticity identical to the vibration sheet. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140219838 | Piezoelectric Cooling Fan - A piezoelectric cooling fan comprises a support frame and two piezoelectric actuators. Each piezoelectric actuator includes an electrical-conductive plate and a piezoelectric plate attached to the electrical-conductive plate, wherein an edge portion of the electrical-conductive plate is fixedly attached to a base of the support frame and approximately aligned with an edge portion of the piezoelectric plate attached thereto. The two piezoelectric actuators are symmetrically arranged with respect to the base of the support frame to define a cavity therebetween and are electrically connected with an AC power source, so that the piezoelectric actuators can be driven to flex towards and away from each other with respect to the edge portions of the piezoelectric actuators, so that air pulses can be induced from the cavity between the piezoelectric actuators for heat dissipation. The piezoelectric cooling fan is light, compact, low noise, low power, and free of electromagnetic interference. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140341762 | PIEZOELECTRIC FAN - A piezoelectric fan includes a vibrating plate including blades and a base that are integral. Piezoelectric elements are mounted on the blade on the side of the base. Piezoelectric elements are mounted on the blade on the side of the base. Piezoelectric elements are mounted on the blade on the side of the base. Support bodies are disposed such that the base of the vibrating plate is sandwiched therebetween. A portion of each of the piezoelectric elements is sandwiched between the vibrating plate and the support plate, and a portion of each of the piezoelectric elements is sandwiched between the vibrating plate and the support plate. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20150023819 | PIEZOELECTRIC FAN - A piezoelectric fan in which vibration of blades is unaffected by external noise includes a vibrating plate including blades and a base. First piezoelectric elements are attached to a side of a first blade adjacent to the base. Second piezoelectric elements are attached to a side of a second blade adjacent to the base. Third piezoelectric elements are attached to a side of a third blade adjacent to the base. A holder includes a supporting body and a holding member that sandwich the base therebetween. The holding member has a supporting portion and main-body fixing portions including respective main-body fixing holes. The main-body fixing portions extend from the supporting portion. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150125320 | PLATE TYPE COOLING APPARATUS - A plate type cooling apparatus is disclosed. The plate type cooling apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first elastic plate made of an elastic material; a second elastic plate made of an elastic material and having one end thereof joined with the first elastic plate and the other end thereof separated from the first elastic plate; a piezoelectric element coupled with at least one of the first elastic plate and the second elastic plate and being deformable by applied electric power; and a power source coupled with the piezoelectric element so as to apply electric power to the piezoelectric element. | 05-07-2015 |
