PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR FOR ACTUATING HAPTIC DEVICE

• US 20110156539A1
• Filed: 03/02/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Yun, Dae Woong, PARK, Dong Sun, Son, Yeon Ho, Kim, Jae Kyung, Woo, Ki Suk, Lee, Kum Kyung, Jung, Su Young, Jang, Ji Yeoun
• Application Number:
  US12/716,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20110156539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/366
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 30/2047 Membrane type
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 30/50 having a stacked or multilayer structure

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a piezoelectric actuator for actuating a haptic device, which includes a piezoelectric element having a plurality of piezoelectric layers which are stacked and have the same polling direction, and an electrode pattern formed on the piezoelectric element, in which the length of each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers is greater than or equal to four times the width of each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers, and the width of each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers is greater than or equal to ten times the thickness of each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers, so that the piezoelectric actuator can greatly vibrate in the direction of length with reduced power consumption.

Claims

1. A piezoelectric actuator for actuating a haptic device, comprising:

a piezoelectric element comprising a plurality of piezoelectric layers which are stacked and have a same polling direction; and

an electrode pattern formed on the piezoelectric element,

wherein a length of each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers is greater than or equal to four times a width of each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers, and the width of each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers is greater than or equal to ten times a thickness of each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers,

the electrode pattern comprises a plurality of inner electrodes provided inside the piezoelectric element and a plurality of outer electrodes formed on an outer surface of the piezoelectric element and connected to each of the plurality of inner electrodes, and

a piezoelectric element having upper space and lower space which are formed by separating the plurality of outer electrodes, the plurality of outer electrodes formed on the outer surface of the piezoelectric element in areas other than the upper space and the lower space.

2. The piezoelectric actuator as set forth in claim 1, wherein the electrode pattern comprises:

a first electrode comprising a first inner electrode provided inside the piezoelectric element and a first outer electrode formed on one side of an outer surface of the piezoelectric element and connected to the first inner electrode; and

a second electrode comprising a second inner electrode provided inside the piezoelectric element and a second outer electrode formed on the other side of the outer surface of the piezoelectric element and connected to the second inner electrode.

3. The piezoelectric actuator as set forth in claim 1, wherein the piezoelectric element expands and contracts in a direction of length.

4. The piezoelectric actuator as set forth in claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers has a hexahedral shape.

5. The piezoelectric actuator as set forth in claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers has a thickness of 50˜

150 μ

m.