Acoustic driver assembly for a spherical cavitation chamber
AssigneeImpulse Devices, Inc.
InventorsRoss Alan Tessien, Dario Felipe Gaitan, Daniel A. Phillips
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AssigneeImpulse Devices, Inc.
InventorsRoss Alan Tessien, Dario Felipe Gaitan, Daniel A. Phillips
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An acoustic driver assembly for use with a spherical cavitation chamber is provided. The acoustic driver assembly includes at least one transducer, a head mass and a tail mass, coupled together with a centrally located threaded means (e.g., all thread, bolt, etc.). The driver assembly is either attached to the exterior surface of the spherical cavitation chamber with the same threaded means, a different threaded means, or a more permanent coupling means such as brazing, diffusion bonding or epoxy. In at least one embodiment, the transducer is comprised of a pair of piezo-electric transducers, preferably with the adjacent surfaces of the piezo-electric transducers having the same polarity. The surface of the head mass that is in contact with the external surface of the chamber has a spherical curvature equivalent to the spherical curvature of the external surface of the chamber, thus providing maximum surface contact between the driver assembly and the chamber. In at least one embodiment, a void filling material is interposed between one or more pairs of adjacent surfaces of the driver assembly and/or the driver assembly and the exterior surface of the cavitation chamber.
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