Patent attributes
A piezoelectric blower includes a valve, a housing, a vibrating plate, and a piezoelectric element. The vibrating plate forms, together with the housing, a column-shaped blower chamber such that the blower chamber is interposed therebetween in a thickness direction of the vibrating plate. The vibrating plate and the housing are formed such that the blower chamber has a radius (a). The piezoelectric element causes the vibrating plate to undergo concentric bending vibration at a resonance frequency (f). The radius (a) of the blower chamber and the resonance frequency (f) of the vibrating plate satisfy a relationship of 0.8×(k0c)/(2π)≤af≤1.2×(k0c)/(2π), where an acoustic velocity of gas that passes through the blower chamber is (c) and a value that satisfies a relationship of a Bessel function of a first kind of J0(k0)=0 is k0.
