Patents Assigned to Dexterials Corporation
  • Drive device, lens module, and image pickup unit
    Patent number: 9590169
    Abstract: There are provided a drive device and the like that are capable of suppressing characteristic degradation according to ambient environment. The drive device includes one or a plurality of polymer actuator devices each configured using an ion-exchange resin, and the ion-exchange resin contains operating ions that have activation energy equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold. Degradation in ion conductivity in the ion-exchange resin is suppressed even in environment with low humidity, high temperature, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Dexterials Corporation
    Inventors: Takehisa Ishida, Nobuyuki Nagai, Yusaku Kato