H02N 2/001
Driving devices
Official title: {Driving devices, e.g. vibrators}
H02N2/001 (Driving devices) appears on 936 US grants and 884 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H02N- Granted patents
- 936
- Published applications
- 884
- Assignees
- 226
- Inventors
- 1,054
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 8 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Piezoelectric motor, camera module, and electronic device11 Aug 2026US 12,706,552 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Piezoelectric driving mechanism21 Jul 2026US 12,689,313 B2Actutek Corporation
- Vibratory actuator and electronic device28 Apr 2026US 12,611,696 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Piezoelectric actuator24 Mar 2026US 12,588,416 B2TDK Corporation
- Vibration-type drive apparatus, and drive method for vibration-type drive apparatus17 Feb 2026US 12,556,112 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Control apparatus and vibration driving apparatus9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196950 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method of manufacturing piezoelectric ceramics, piezoelectric ceramics, piezoelectric element, ultrasonic motor, optical apparatus, dust removing device, image pickup apparatus, ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and electronic apparatus4 Jun 2026US 2026/0157113 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Control device and robot14 May 2026US 2026/0135497 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Forta Vault™ — Sovereign Hybrid Infrastructure Harvest, Conversion, and Enforcement Platform23 Apr 2026US 2026/0112920 A1
- Vibration-type actuator, electronic device, and optical device23 Apr 2026US 2026/0112981 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ultrasonic motor having integrated electrodes and manufacturing method of the same325US 6,933,656 B2ASMO Co.LTD · 2005
- Ultrasonic motor316US 5,357,164 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1994
- Ultrasonic motor297US 5,105,117 ABrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- Piezoelectric motor structures188US 4,019,073 A1977
- Fluidic optical devices134US 7,646,544 B22010