Piezoelectric driving device, robot, and driving method of the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9666785-B2
Application number	US-201514823264-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 11, 2015
Priority date	Aug 13, 2014
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

A piezoelectric driving device includes a vibrating plate, and a piezoelectric vibrating body including a substrate, and piezoelectric elements provided on the substrate. The piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric body, and the first electrode, the piezoelectric body, and the second electrode are laminated in this order on the substrate. The piezoelectric vibrating body is installed on the vibrating plate so that the piezoelectric element is interposed between the substrate and the vibrating plate. A wiring pattern including a first wiring corresponding to the first electrode and a second wiring corresponding to the second electrode is formed on the vibrating plate, the first electrode and the first wiring are connected to each other through a first laminated conducting portion, and the second electrode and the second wiring are connected to each other through a second laminated conducting portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A piezoelectric driving device comprising:
a substrate;
a first electrode that is provided on the substrate;
a piezoelectric member that is provided above the substrate;
a second electrode that is provided on the piezoelectric member;
a vibrating plate that is provided above the first and second electrodes, the vibrating plate having top and bottom surfaces opposite to each other, the bottom surface facing the first and second electrodes; and
a wiring pattern that is provided on the bottom surface of the vibrating plate, the wiring patter being configured with a first wiring member and a second wiring member, the second wiring member being located at a first area of the bottom surface,
wherein the first area correspond to the second electrode in a plan view,
the first wiring member of the wiring pattern is electrically connected to the first electrode, and
the second wiring member of the wiring pattern is electrically connected to the second electrode.

2. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first electrode and the first wiring member are electrically connected to each other through a first laminated conducting member, and
the second electrode and the second wiring member are electrically connected to each other through a second laminated conducting member.

3. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a conducting pattern that is configured by at least one layer, the conducting pattern being provided between the first electrode and the wiring pattern,
wherein the first laminated conducting member and the second laminated conducting member configure the conducting pattern.

4. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 3 ,
wherein a farthest layer of the conducting pattern located at a position farthest from the substrate in a lamination direction is electrically connected to the wiring pattern so that a surface of the farthest layer of the conducting pattern and a surface of the wiring pattern are directly electrically contacted to each other.

5. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 3 ,
wherein an insulating layer is provided between a closest layer of the conducting pattern located at a position closest to the second electrode in a lamination direction and the second electrode, and
the closest layer of the conducting pattern and the second electrode are electrically connected to each other through a plurality of contact holes provided in the insulating layer.

6. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the conducting pattern is configured with a first conducting pattern, a second conducting pattern, and an insulating layer, and the insulating layer is provided between the first conducting pattern and the second conducting pattern,
the first laminated conducting member in the first conducting pattern and the first laminated conducting member in the second conducting pattern are electrically connected to each other through a first plurality of contact holes provided in the insulating layer, and
the second laminated conducting member in the first conducting pattern and the second laminated conducting member in the second conducting pattern are electrically connected to each other through a second plurality of contact holes provided in the insulating layer.

7. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the substrate, the first electrode, the piezoelectric member and the second electrode configure a piezoelectric vibrating body,
the vibrating plate includes a second area on which the piezoelectric vibrating body is not directly or indirectly provided, and
the wiring pattern is formed on the second area of the vibrating plate.

8. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the piezoelectric member has a thickness of 0.05 μm to 20 μm.

9. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vibrating plate is formed with a conductive member, and
a part of the wiring pattern is formed over a side surface of the vibrating plate, and the wiring pattern is electrically connected to the vibrating plate.

10. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the piezoelectric driving device includes a plurality of piezoelectric elements, each of the plurality of piezoelectric elements is configured with the first electrode, the piezoelectric member, and the second electrode,
the plurality of piezoelectric elements are divided into N sets (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) of piezoelectric element groups, when one or more piezoelectric elements driven at the same time are set as one set of the piezoelectric element group,
the second electrodes of two or more piezoelectric elements are directly connected to each other through a connection wiring, when each set of the piezoelectric element groups includes two or more piezoelectric elements, and
the N sets of the second wirings and the N sets of the second laminated conducting members are provided to be insulated from each other, and to correspond to each of the second electrodes of the N sets of piezoelectric element groups.

11. The piezoelectric driving device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a protrusion which is provided on the vibrating plate and comes in contact with a body to be driven.

12. A robot comprising:
a plurality of linking members;
joints connected to the plurality of linking members; and
the piezoelectric driving device according to claim 1 which is configured to rotate the plurality of linking members using the joints.

13. A robot comprising:
a plurality of linking members;
joints connected to the plurality of linking members; and
the piezoelectric driving device according to claim 9 which is configured to rotate the plurality of linking members using the joints.

14. A robot comprising:
a plurality of linking members;
joints connected to the plurality of linking members; and
the piezoelectric driving device according to claim 2 which is configured to rotate the plurality of linking members using the joints.

15. A robot comprising:
a plurality of linking members;
joints connected to the plurality of linking members; and
the piezoelectric driving device according to claim 3 which is configured to rotate the plurality of linking members using the joints.

16. A driving method of the robot according to claim 12 ,
wherein a driving circuit of the piezoelectric driving device applies an AC voltage or a voltage obtained by applying an offset voltage to the AC voltage as a driving voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode so that the piezoelectric driving device is configured to rotate the plurality of linking members using the joints.

17. A driving method of the piezoelectric driving device according to claim 1 , comprising:
applying an AC voltage or a voltage obtained by applying an offset voltage to the AC voltage as a driving voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode.

18. A driving method of the piezoelectric driving device according to claim 9 , comprising:
applying an AC voltage or a voltage obtained by applying an offset voltage to the AC voltage as a driving voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode.

19. A driving method of the piezoelectric driving device according to claim 2 , comprising:
applying an AC voltage or a voltage obtained by applying an offset voltage to the AC voltage as a driving voltage between the first electrod

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Iwazaki Tomohisa
• Konishi Akio
• Kajino Kiichi
• Kamijo Koichi
• Miyazawa Osamu
• Arakawa Yutaka
• Yamada Daisuke

Classifications

• B25J17/00

  Joints · CPC title

• H02N2/103

  by pressing one or more vibrators against the rotor · CPC title

• H02P25/027

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L41/0913

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L41/0475 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic