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8176773 Piezoelectric sensor and sensing instrument  
To provide a piezoelectric sensor in which a first electrode for measurement and a second electrode for reference are provided apart from each other on one surface side of a piezoelectric piece and...
8150462 Connection box  
Field devices for measuring a pressure or a fill level are connected, by way of a cable connection or a radio connection, to stationary evaluation- and display devices. To provide flexible...
8102101 Piezoelectric sensors  
A piezoelectric sensor having a plurality of electrodes deposited on a single surface of the dielectric medium is generally provided. The plurality of electrodes can define a plurality of...
8080922 Ultrasonic sensor having a cover including a damping element  
An ultrasonic sensor, in particular for a vehicle, including a housing, includes the following: a transducer element which is attached to the bottom of the housing for generating ultrasonic...
8004152 Electronic tongue sensor  
The disclosure may relate to example embodiments of an electronic tongue sensor that may include an array of piezoelectric quartz crystal sensors with at least one coating specific for sensing a...
7876023 Piezoelectric/electrostrictive membrane sensor  
Disclosed is a piezoelectric/electrostrictive membrane sensor wherein the main component of terminal electrodes is contained in the vicinity of the surface of a piezoelectric/electrostrictive body....
7851769 Motorized manipulator for positioning a TEM specimen  
The invention relates to a motorized manipulator for positioning a TEM specimen holder with sub-micron resolution parallel to a y-z plane and rotating the specimen holder in the y-z plane, the...
7812506 Piezoelectric/electrostrictive membrane type measuring device  
A piezoelectric/electrostrictive membrane type sensor is provided with a ceramic base body and a piezoelectric/electrostrictive element. The ceramic base body includes a thin diaphragm portion, a...
7741745 Attaching structure of resolver, dynamo-electric machine and attaching method of resolver  
A resolver stator portion is attached to a resolver stator portion side attaching portion formed at a position facing to a resolver rotor portion via an elastic ring. Thus, it is possible to absorb...
7663295 Method and system for measuring physical parameters with a piezoelectric bimorph cantilever in a gaseous or liquid environment  
A piezoelectric bimorph cantilever is used for determining physical parameters in a gaseous or liquid environment. The sensor works as a driven and damped oscillator. Contrary to common cantilever...
7555947 Air pressure sensor  
An air pressure sensor capable of measuring air pressure highly accurately with a simple configuration is provided. The sensor includes: a sealed case with a sealed space formed therein; a first...
7555952 Sensing device  
The present invention prevents instability of frequency measurement caused by spatial connection between quartz sensors adjacent to each other when a plurality of quartz sensors, including a quartz...
7554247 Component measuring device  
An object of the present invention is to perform measuring work easily when detecting the presence or absence of an object to be measured or the concentration thereof using a plurality of quartz...
7482732 Layered surface acoustic wave sensor  
A surface acoustic wave sensor which incorporates: a) a first layered SAW device consisting of a piezoelectric crystal such as lithium niobate or lithium tantalate with interdigital electrodes on...
7397167 Ultrasonic wave generating device  
An ultrasonic wave generating device includes a substrate, a heat insulation layer on the substrate, a membrane heating portion on the heat insulation layer, and a membrane oscillator on the...
7368855 Piezoelectric vibration sensor  
A sensor unit for picking up mechanical vibrations, sound and ultrasound has at least one piezoelectric foil strip (piezo strip) as a sensor element. The piezo strip has signal wires attached...
7161280 Ultrasonic transducer and method of joining an ultrasonic transducer  
The invention concerns an ultrasonic transducer, which is assembled from several parts. These parts are a protecting plate, a piezoelectric disc and a housing. Joining of the parts for transducers...
6848299 Quartz crystal microbalance with feedback loop for automatic gain control  
An analytical apparatus, such as a quartz crystal microbalance, comprises a piezoelectric sensor and an oscillator circuit, coupled to the sensor, to oscillate at a frequency substantially...
6763285 Adaptive compensation of sensor run-out and mass unbalance in magnetic bearing systems without changing rotor speed  
The present invention provides a method and system for stabilizing a rotor about its geometric center in a magnetic bearing system at a constant rotor speed. In the method, the controller for...
6424077 Manipulator  
A plurality of linear actuators (10, 20, 30) connected in sequence orthogonally to one another constitute rectilinear movement means having a plurality of degrees of freedom in rectilinear...
6392827 Drive and guide mechanism and apparatus using the mechanism  
A lens driving device which does not make larger an apparatus in which the device is installed, which ensures a longer span for preventing a tilt of a lens therein, and which allows an easy access...
6194811 Drive apparatus  
A drive apparatus having a drive pulse generation device that generates drive pulses. An electromechanical transducer has a first end and a second end. The electromechanical transducer expands and...
6147434 Drive device using electromechanical transducer and apparatus equipped with the device  
A drive device using a piezoelectric transducer for correcting a shift of a position of a drive system based on a change in an environmental state such as environmental temperature, in which a...
5890643 Low mass ultrasonic bonding tool  
A novel low mass transducer for bonding machines comprises a transducer generator which mounts on or is coupled to a bonding tool of the type used for ball bonding, wedge bonding and TAB bonding....
5815079 Device for establishing and/or monitoring a predetermined filling level in a container  
A description is given of a sturdy device for establishing and/or monitoring a predetermined filling level in a container, which device exhibits a housing (1), two oscillating rods (3, 4)...
5631633 Device for determining and/or monitoring a predetermined material level in a container  
The determination and/or monitoring of a predetermined material level in a container is effected with the help of a material level sensor which contains a mechanical oscillatory structure, an...
5596145 Monolithic resonator for vibrating beam force sensors  
A monolithic resonator for a vibrating beam device, either an accelerometer or a pressure transducer, includes an outer structure and an inner structure. The outer structure includes a mounting...
5568004 Electromechanical positioning device  
An electromechanical positioning device to be used for positioning, for example, a probe-tip (12) in a scanning tunneling microscope, an electron emitter in a field electron gun, a mirror in an...
5520050 Driving and detecting circuit of a vibrator  
First switching elements 28, 30 and resistors 36, 38 are connected to piezoelectric elements 16a, 16b of a vibrating gyroscope 12. An oscillation circuit 32 and a phase correction circuit 34 are...
5430341 Miniaturized power supply for an electroactive actuator  
A circuit for providing from a low voltage input, a high voltage output to a segmented electroactive actuator, wherein each of the segments function as a filter capacitor and a load, comprising a...
5408168 Device for determining and/or monitoring a predetermined filling level in a container  
The device comprises at least two oscillation rods that are mounted at a distance from each other on a membrane, the edge of which are connected with a screw insert. A clamping screw is connected...
5389849 Tactility providing apparatus and manipulating device using the same  
A detecting portion outputs a contact state signal in accordance with a contact state with respect to an object to be manipulated. The contact state signal represents at least one of information of...
5375336 Gyro-compass  
A support base of an angular velocity sensor is supported rotatably at one end, and the support base is vibrated by a piezoelectric element. By this vibration, a known rotational angular velocity...
5302878 High-frequency acoustic rheometer and device to measure the viscosity of a fluid using this rheometer  
An acoustic rheometer working in the high frequency range comprises a torsional-mode transducer which is a crystal of the sillenites class, having a height that determines the resonance frequencies...
5281899 Electrical drive for a segmented transducer  
An electronic system is provided for stimulating a segmented transducer with resonant electrical signals to produce a nonsinusoidal transducer output. In an illustrative embodiment, the transducer...
5264831 Device for determining and/or monitoring a predetermined contents level in a container  
To determine and/or monitor a predetermined contents level in a container, at the height of the level to be monitored a region of the container wall is defined by a ring or frame which is attached...
5264755 Stepping motor to drive a body, especially a shaft, through small angles of rotation per step  
A stepping motor for rotating a body through small angles of rotation, the stepping motor having a stator and a rotor, an actively moveable connection unit for selectively connecting each of the...
5191316 Apparatus for determining and/or monitoring a predetermined contents level in a container  
The apparatus comprises at least two oscillating rods which are secured spaced from each other to a diaphragm, the edge of which is connected to a screw-in piece. On the side of the diaphragm...
5190383 Dot printing apparatus  
A dot printing apparatus in which the piezoelectric print head having the piezoelectric element connected to the printing wire is utilized and the secondary bounce of the printing wire is...
5179028 Antibody coated crystal chemical sensor  
A sensor for detecting the presence of a particular chemical by determining the absolute frequency shift in the oscillating frequency of an antibody-coated oscillator. Specific antibodies deposited...
5172024 Device for the removal of the ice formed on the surface of a wall, notably an optical or radio-electrical window  
A device to eliminate ice formed on the surface of a wall, notably on the surface of an optical or radio-electric window, comprises a piezoelectric material having a vibrating active surface that...
5164710 Method of obtaining a thread running signal  
In a method of obtaining a thread tension signal a sensor in the form of a piezofoil is attached to a thread guide or to its mounting and delivers a signal which reflects, amongst other things, the...
5144208 Device for adjusting a nominal value of the dimension of an actuator, the longitudinal dimension of which can be changed by applying an external electromagnetic or electrostatic field  
A device for adjusting a nominal value of the dimension of an actuator, the longitudinal dimension of which can be changed by applying an external electromagnetic or electrostatic field, the...
5138217 Driving power unit for piezoactuator system and method  
A driving power unit for a piezoactivator is disclosed that utilizes a semiconductor switching device for supplying power to the piezoelement. When the voltage measured across the piezoelement...
5136202 Material sensor  
A material sensor employs deflectable means and piezoelectric film means for providing signals indicative of a material condition.
5095256 Drive circuit for a piezoelectric actuator  
A drive circuit for driving a piezoelectric (PZ) stack, in response to an excitation voltage, generates a dimensional strain varying along a sinusoidal waveform in a PZ stack by applying an...
5070319 Door ajar alarm for refrigeration unit  
An alarm system for signalling when a door of a refrigeration unit compartment is not fully closed comprises an alarm condition sensing system having a door sealing gasket magnet and a magnetically...
5053668 Apparatus for driving piezoelectric element for closing and opening valve member  
In an apparatus for driving a piezoelectric element to close and open a valve member by expanding and contracting a volume of a pressure chamber, at an initial stage of a closing state of the valve...
5051646 Method of driving a piezoelectric scanner linearly with time  
In a scanning device producing an image from data obtained from a nonlinear piezoelectric scanner having an attached end and a free end providing the data from a lateral scanning motion of the free...
5036263 Piezoelectric actuator driving apparatus  
Disclosed is a piezoelectric actuator driving apparatus in which a piezoelectric element used to operate as an electro-mechanical transducer is suitably charged and discharged so that the...
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