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- Patent Title: Method of forming electrode of piezoelectric element
- Patent Title (中): 形成压电元件电极的方法
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Application No.: US13654731Application Date: 2012-10-18
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Publication No.: US08580334B2Publication Date: 2013-11-12
- Inventor: Hideki Kashima
- Applicant: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Jordan and Hamburg LLP
- Priority: JP2009-023510 20090204
- Main IPC: B05D5/12
- IPC: B05D5/12 ; H01L41/22

Abstract:
An electrode structure of a piezoelectric element is provided. The piezoelectric element 23a (23b) constitutes a piezoelectric actuator 19 attached to an attaching part 30 of an object, to minutely move a movable part 15 of the object relative to a base part 13 of the object according to deformation occurring on the piezoelectric element in response to a power applied state of the piezoelectric element. The electrode structure in response an electrode 41a formed on one of a pair of electrode forming faces 31a and 31b of the piezoelectric element on an inner side of a peripheral zone 31a1, the peripheral zone being defined along the periphery of the electrode forming face 31a on which the electrode is formed. The electrode structure also includes a non-electrode part 51 formed in the peripheral zone. Even if the peripheral zone 31a1 of the electrode forming face 31a having a short-circuit causing possibility touches the attaching part 30, no short circuit occurs.
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