US 2016/0238699 A1 · Acoustic Transducer Element

Abstract

In an embodiment, an acoustic transducer includes an element with an acoustic radiative surface having two warped edges at opposing sides. In another embodiment, an acoustic transducer includes first and second elements, each divided into at least two spatially separated portions electrically coupled to each other, the portions configured to interleave. In a further embodiment, an acoustic transducer includes first and second transducer elements. The second element is situated adjacent to the first element and includes a radiative surface with an edge having periodic elongations. In yet another embodiment, an acoustic transducer includes a transducer element with an acoustic radiative surface that has a skewed diamond shape.

Claims41

Dependent claims

An acoustic transducer comprising:

a transducer element with an acoustic radiative surface, the radiative surface including two warped edges at opposing sides of the radiative surface.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/043,297Filed 12 Feb 2016

Priority

13 Feb 2015

Published

18 Aug 2016

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G01S 7/521
Of systems according to group G01S15/00: constructional features
B06B 1/0611
Using multiple elements: in a pile
B06B 1/0688
Operating with piezoelectric effect or with electrostriction: with foil-type piezoelectric elements, e.g. PVDF
G01S 15/8902
For mapping or imaging: side-looking sonar

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Abstract

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