B06B 1/0603
Using a piezoelectric bender
Official title: {using a piezoelectric bender, e.g. bimorph}
B06B1/0603 (Using a piezoelectric bender) appears on 287 US grants and 282 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B06B- Granted patents
- 287
- Published applications
- 282
- Assignees
- 154
- Inventors
- 657
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 9 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Membrane transducer with improved bandwidth25 Aug 2026US 12,715,020 B2Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
- Vibration apparatus and apparatus including the same7 Jul 2026US 12,677,101 B2LG Display Co., Ltd.
- Ultrasonic transducer and parametric speaker including the same9 Jun 2026US 12,652,499 B2Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Piezoelectric assembly and process of forming a piezoelectric assembly9 Jun 2026US 12,652,959 B2TDK Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Imaging devices having piezoelectric transceivers with harmonic characteristics26 May 2026US 12,636,680 B2Exo Imaging, Inc.
- Semiconductor device and method of forming the same13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239881 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Transducer system and method2 Oct 2025US 2025/0303445 A1Emerge Now Inc.
- Acoustic transducer2 Oct 2025US 2025/0310695 A1Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
- Three-dimensional mapping of deep tissue modulus by stretchable ultrasonic arrays11 Sep 2025US 2025/0281152 A1The Regents of the University of California
- Force-measuring device and related systems31 Jul 2025US 2025/0244187 A1UltraSense Systems, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Haptic devices having multiple operational modes including at least one resonant mode108US 7,369,115 B2Immersion Corporation · 2008
- Tunable ultrasound transducers62US 8,723,399 B2Masdar Institute of Science and Technology · 2014
- Ultrasonic transducer57US 9,662,680 B2Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 2017
- Damped resonant piezoelectric alerting device55US 5,945,772 AMotorla, Inc. · 1999
- Transducer assembly vibration sensor54US 4,093,885 AAmpex Corporation · 1978