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Victor, NY - Feb. 4, 2008 - New Scale Technologies, Inc.
has received its third US patent for its miniature piezoelectric
SQUIGGLE motors, the company announced today. The patent covers New
Scale's SQUIGGLE motor design improvements in three areas:
- Smaller and more robust electrical interconnections using
high-volume flexible printed circuit (FPC) manufacturing processes.
- A simplified low-power electronic drive method using a
digitally-controlled series LC resonant circuit to reduce power
requirements by 50%.
- A highly miniaturized auto focus and optical zoom module that
integrates two SQUIGGLE motors moving two optical lens groups. This
implementation targets mobile phone camera modules, and is also
applicable to other miniature optical devices such as endoscopes.
Patent # 7,309,943 issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on
December 18, 2007 to inventors David Henderson, Robert Culhane,
Conrad Hoffman, and James Guelzow. It is a continuation-in-part of
Henderson's fundamental SQUIGGLE motor patent #6,940,209 issued in
September 2005.
"This latest patent validates the unique features of our SQUIGGLE
motor technology and reflects our continuing commitment to
high-volume manufacturing, ultra-low power operation and maximum
product miniaturization for our customers," stated David Henderson,
New Scale's founder and co-CEO.
About New Scale Technologies
New Scale Technologies (www.newscaletech.com) is an innovation and
micro-manufacturing company delivering ingeniously small motion systems. We
serve worldwide markets for mobile products, medical devices, defense and
security systems and industrial instruments. Every day our creative engineers
and scientists use their deep understanding of micro-mechatronic technologies to
solve the most demanding customer problems. Since 2002, the company has been
awarded six patents with more pending. We combine our talents with the
capabilities of our global strategic partners, who provide “best in class”
integrated circuits, ceramic components and high-volume manufacturing. Through
direct customer engagements, continuous innovation and strategic partnerships,
we deliver disruptively small, precise and low-power motion systems that enable
our customers to create smaller feature-rich products.
New Scale’s SQUIGGLE® micro motors, TRACKER™ position sensors and M3 micro-mechatronic
modules enable design engineers to create smaller products including cameras for
mobile phone, medical, military and industrial applications; portable drug
delivery and implantable medical devices; endoscopes; precision tuning devices;
electronic locks; UAV controls; precision optics and photonic control systems;
and cryogenic and MRI-compatible instrumentation.
SQUIGGLE is a registered trademark and TRACKER and New Scale Pathway are trademarks of New Scale Technologies, Inc.
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