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Title:
CHOPPER DEVICE AND PYROELECTRIC SENSOR UNIT USING IT
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH11326041
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To reduce the number of processings and to enhance shape accuracy by forming a displacement enlarging portion and a driving portion on the same axis and differentiating both spring constants.

The present chopper device comprises a tongue shaped displacement enlarging portion 14 in which a slit 15 is provided on a portion of a flat spring 12 and which has a curved portion 16 at a tip end of the flat spring 12; and a driving portion 17 to which a piezoelectric substance 13 is adhered to a fixed end 11 side of the flat spring 12. A center axis a of the displacement enlarging portion 14 and the driving portion 17 is the same. Here, when an electric field of a constant frequency is charged to the piezoelectric substance 13, a flexural oscillation is generated by a piezoelectric effect, the flexural oscillation is also excited in the displacement enlarging portion 14 and the curved portion 16 of a free end periodically vibrates. At this time, the curved portion 16 is stabilized and a big displacing action is obtained by differentiating and appropriately setting a resonance frequency of the driving portion 17 and the displacement enlarging portion 14. Since a bent processing is carried out only in the curved portion 16, the number of processings is reduced to 1/3 of the conventional processings and since a dispersion factor exists at only one position, shape accuracy is also enhanced.


Inventors:
KATO TATSURO
Application Number:
JP13945698A
Publication Date:
November 26, 1999
Filing Date:
May 21, 1998
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD
International Classes:
G01J1/02; G01J1/04; G01J5/02; G01J5/34; (IPC1-7): G01J1/04; G01J1/02; G01J5/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tomoyuki Takimoto (1 person outside)