Piezoelectric valve, and optical particulate matter sorter provided with air-blowing means that uses piezoelectric valve

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9114430
APP PUB NO 20150060337A1
SERIAL NO

14395475

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A piezoelectric valve stably supplies gas even for a long gas ejection time, with a high responsivity to opening the valve, is provided. The piezoelectric valve, including a gas-pressure-chamber for receiving a compressed gas supplied from outside, a gas-discharge-channel through which the compressed gas is discharged from the gas-pressure-chamber, comprises: a valve body disposed in the gas-pressure-chamber and opens/closes the gas-discharge-channel; a piezoelectric element for producing a driving force to move the valve body as a displacement; a displacement-enlarging-mechanism for enlarging the displacement of the piezoelectric element to act on the valve body; and a driving unit having a signal-generating-unit for generating a signal comprising a pre-pulse and a main pulse and provides the signal generated by the signal-generating-unit to a driving circuit as an input signal to apply a driving voltage to the piezoelectric element to make the piezoelectric element expand and drive the valve body open.

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SATAKE CORPORATIONCHIYODA-KU TOKYO 101-0021
MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATION4F BUILDX NO 3 7-12 IWAMOTO-CHO 2-CHOME CHIYODA-KU TOKYO 101-0032

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chee, Sze Keat Kawasaki, JP 24 82
Higuchi, Toshiro Tokyo, JP 68 2294
Ito, Takafumi Hiroshima, JP 141 2129
Kamima, Takeshi Asahi, JP 3 24
Matsushita, Tadashi Hiroshima, JP 41 283
Takeuchi, Teruhiko Hiroshima, JP 4 31
Yano, Takeshi Kawasaki, JP 100 1094

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