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AssigneeHoechst Celanese Corporation
InventorsIlmar L. Kalnin, Howard Furst, George J. Breckenridge, O. Richard Hughes
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Cubelets are made from a piezoelectrically active ceramic material having holes therein which may be cross-cored. The holes are selectively filled with a liquid curable resin, such as an epoxy. The cubelets may also be formed from bonded or sintered "half-shapes" containing half cores, wherein a face bisects one hole or an array of holes or cross-cored holes to form one or an array of semicircular grooves or crossed semicircular grooves. The cubelets, whether filled with resin or having unfilled internal volume, are arranged in a precision array within the snug-fitting cavities of a lattice, whereby the holes are sealed off, to form a cubelet/lattice assembly which is then electroded and poled in an electric field and encapsulated in polymer to form a part of a hydrophone assembly, for example.
In the fabrication of a hydrophone assembly, wherein a plurality of selected cubelets, molded from a piezoelectrically active ceramic material, must be arranged in a precision array and embedded in a liquid polymer resin which is then cured with the array in place,
A device for facilitating the fabrication of a hydrophone assembly, comprising:
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