Method of manufacturing an actuator device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToru Kakiuchi
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Abstract
An actuator device includes: an actuator including a first element contact; and a wire member including (a) a first contact connected to the first element contact and (b) a first wire configured to conduct with the first contact. A first wide portion is formed at a distal end portion of the first wire at an edge portion of the wire member. The first wide portion is disposed beyond the first element contact in a wire direction of the first wire. The first contact is disposed at a basal end portion of the first wire. The basal end portion is located further from the edge portion of the wire member than the first wide portion. The first contact is connected to the first element contact.
Claims10
A method of manufacturing an actuator device, comprising:
- forming a wire pattern including a plurality of wires and a plurality of test contacts on a base of a wire member, the plurality of test contacts being respectively connected to the plurality of wires;
- performing a conduction test of each of the plurality of wires using a corresponding one of the plurality of test contacts;
- cutting the base along an area between the plurality of wires and the plurality of test contacts after the conduction test;
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- joining the wire member to an actuator in a state in which a portion of each of the plurality of wires which is further from a cut edge of the base than a wide portion formed by the cutting of the base overlaps a corresponding one of a plurality of element contacts of the actuator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.