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US 5,209,453 AGranted
Laminated type piezoelectric apparatus
AssigneeNippondenso Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroyuki Aota, Masatoshi Kuroyanagi
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Abstract
A piezoelectric apparatus includes a piezoelectric device which is biased by a fluid force instead of a spring. Since the fluid force can be maintained within a predetermined value even after the piezoelectric device has been used number of times, and since the fluid force can be modulated by fluid pressure providing means and valve means when the fluid force is decreased from the predetermined valve, the present piezoelectric apparatus can maintain the initial pressure on the piezoelectric device.
Claims9
A piezoelectric apparatus comprising:
- a piezoelectric device expanded by applying a voltage to said piezoelectric device and contracted when said voltage is removed;
- a fluid pressure providing means for providing a fluid with a fluid force, which comprises a pump to pressurize said fluid, an accumulator to accumulate said pressure and maintaining means for maintaining said pressure in said accumulator by controlling said pump;
- a first passage means for guiding said fluid force of said fluid to press said piezoelectric device toward a contracted direction thereof;
- driven means driven by a pressure of said fluid force of said fluid;
- a second passage means for providing said fluid force of said fluid to said driven means;
- valve means for opening said first passage means and shutting said second passage means, when said piezoelectric device is contracted by eliminating a voltage, and for shutting said first passage means and opening said second passage means, when said piezoelectric device is expanded by applying a voltage;
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- check valve means provided between said fluid pressure providing means and said first passage means, for maintaining said fluid force of said fluid in said first passage means when a voltage is applied to said piezoelectric device to open said second passage means.
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A piezoelectric apparatus comprising:
- a piezoelectric device expanded by applying a voltage to said piezoelectric device and contracted when said voltage is removed;
- a fluid pressure providing means for providing a fluid with a fluid force;
- a first passage means for guiding said fluid force of said fluid to press said piezoelectric device toward a contracted direction thereof;
- driven means driven by a pressure of said fluid force of said fluid;
- a second passage means for providing said fluid force of said fluid to said driven means;
- valve means for opening said first passage means and shutting said second passage means, when said piezoelectric device is contracted by eliminating a voltage, and for shutting said first passage means and opening said second passage means, when said piezoelectric device is expanded by applying a voltage;
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- check valve means provided between said fluid pressure providing means and said first passage means, for maintaining said fluid force of said fluid in said first passage means when a voltage is applied to said piezoelectric device to open said second passage means, wherein a pressure of a part of said second passage means leading to said driven means is atmospheric pressure when said second passage means is shut by said valve means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.