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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7324406 | Sensor arrangement for seismic waves A sensor arrangement is provided for use in the seismic investigation of geological formations below the seabed. A plurality of sensor nodes (20) are provided and are positioned gfor deployment on the seabed to collect pressure waves and shear waves from the ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7301690 | Micro-optical arrangement The invention relates to a micro-optical arrangement with which in particular optical properties of an optical element or its influencing of electromagnetic radiation may be changed. Thereby the optical elements with a reflecting surface are preferred. It is the obj... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287432 | Process transmitter with overpressure vent An overpressure vent in a transmitter housing of a process transmitter. The transmitter is configured for coupling to an industrial process and measuring a process variable. The transmitter includes an enclosure having a cavity formed therein. A process coupling is ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7190053 | Field device incorporating circuit card assembly as environmental and EMI/RFI shield A field hardened industrial device is described with a housing of the device having electrically conductive walls surrounding a cavity with an open end. An electronics assembly is adapted to fit within the cavity. The device includes a circuit card assembly, which i... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180225 | Piezoelectric vibrator A piezoelectric vibrator having excellent shock resistance and high reliability is offered. The centers of first and second piezoelectric vibrating plates are supported by pillars on a main surface of an enclosure and nearly or substantially parallel to the main sur... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7069795 | Sensor using electro active curved helix and double helix Various sensors use an electro-active device (11) electrically connected to a detector circuit. The electro-active device (11) comprises an electro-active structure in the form of a continuous electro-active member (12) curving in a helix around... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7009326 | Ultrasonic vibration apparatus use as a sensor having a piezoelectric element mounted in a cylindrical casing and grooves filled with flexible filler An ultrasonic vibration apparatus includes a casing having a vibration face, a piezoelectric element mounted in the casing, and a disk-like vibration plate supported at a position along a concentric circle differentiating two regions, an inner region and an outer re... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003125 | Micromachined piezoelectric microspeaker and fabricating method thereof A micromachined piezoelectric microspeaker and its fabricating method are disclosed. The micromachined piezoelectric microspeaker comprises a diaphragm and a plurality of contact pads. The diaphragm comprises an active area which is flat, and a non-active area which... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6922374 | Double-ended geophone A geophone including conductive terminals positioned on opposite sides of the geophone housing. The geophone includes a pair of coils resiliently mounted within the geophone housing and a magnet. A first end plate, a first spring, and a first coil support provide a ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6903498 | Piezoelectric device, ladder type filter, and method of producing the piezoelectric device A lamination type piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric member that is longer in one direction, and a plurality of internal electrodes extending substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction and arranged so as to be opposed to each other via pi... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6784600 | Ultrasonic membrane transducer for an ultrasonic diagnostic probe The invention is directed towards structures for use with micro-formed membrane ultrasonic transducers, and methods for fabricating the structures. In one embodiment, the transducer includes a planar member having a piezoelectric material and spaced apart electrodes... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6693849 | Piezoelectric audio transducer A piezoelectric audio transducer suitable for underwater use comprises a piezoelectric ceramic plate within a housing having open front face and back faces exposing the front and back faces of the ceramic plate to ambient pressure. The ceramic plate can b... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6495642 | Process for preparing electrostrictive polymers and resulting polymers and articles Random copolymers including vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene that exhibit a large electrostrictive response when subjected to an electric field, articles including such polymers, and methods of preparing the polymers and articles. Electrostrict... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6278658 | Self biased transducer assembly and high voltage drive circuit An improved transducer arrangement for low frequency sonar projectors that convert electric signals to mechanically generated acoustic signals. In one embodiment the arrangement has both a convex flextensional transducer and a concave flextensional transd... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6160763 | Towed array hydrophone An omni-directional dual bilaminar hydrophone particularly suitable for use in a towed array consisting of a cylindrical tubular housing whose ends are sealed by bilaminar piezoelectric ceramic/diaphragm subassemblies capable of axially deforming to produ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6076629 | Low frequency flextensional acoustic source for underwater use There is provided an acoustic source especially for use in seismic studies at sea. The acoustic source has a longitudinal axis and sound emitting surfaces adapted to be put into sound emitting movements towards and away from each other by use of a drive u... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6041888 | Low frequency flextensional acoustic source for underwater use Acoustic source, especially for use in seismic studies at sea, with sound emitting surfaces adapted to be put into sound emitting movements toward and away from each other by use of a drive unit in a known manner, in which the sound emitting surfaces comp... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6002649 | Tapered cylinder electro-acoustic transducer with reversed tapered driver A slotted cylinder transducer is provided having a cylindrical metal or cosite material shell. A cylindrical piezoelectric driver is bonded to the inside of the shell with an opening corresponding to the slot. The shell thickness is tapered radially abou... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5889731 | Vibration detector A vibration detector is disclosed. The vibration includes a ring (2) closed at its opposite ends by two ring ends (3, 4), that is externally covered with a sheath (11) made from an elastic material transparent to vibrations, two supporting plates (5) with... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5856956 | Piezoelectric acoustic transducer The piezoelectric-acoustic transducer of the present invention has a hollow case provided with a sound hole. A piezoelectric actuator is disposed inside this case that has one end fixed to the case and that bends in the direction of the thickness of the c... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5852589 | Low cost composite transducer A composite sensor includes at least one layer comprising a piezoelectric material such as a molecularly poled polymer material or a ceramic material having disposed therebetween a material which enhances the piezoelectric properties of the piezoelectric ... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5815466 | Hydrophone structure with reverse bend of piezoelectric element An active element in a hydrophone includes a piezoelectric hydrophone crystal mounted to a backing plate. The piezoelectric crystal may be divided into separate segments. If so segmented, the polarities of the segments are oriented in the same direction. ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5677894 | Hydrophone structure with center pin An active element in a hydrophone includes a piezoelectric hydrophone crystal mounted to a backing plate. The piezoelectric crystal may divided into separate segments. If so segmented, the polarities of the segments are oriented in the same direction. Whe... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5572487 | High pressure, high frequency reciprocal transducer A high frequency transducer capable of transmitting and receiving having an operational range from 100 kHz to 2 MHz, a free field voltage sensitivity (FFVS) greater than -218 dB re 1 V/μPa (300 kHz), and a maximum hydrostatic pressure rating of 20.68 Mpa... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5406531 | Low frequency flex-beam underwater acoustic transducer A low frequency flex-beam underwater acoustic transducer has a base, a flexible beam having one end cantilever mounted on the base, and piezoelectric driving means, for flexurally driving the beam. The piezoelectric driving means operates in the k31 | 04/11/1995 |
| 5197041 | Piezoelectric mud pulser for measurement-while-drilling applications A mud pulser for measurement-while-drilling applications is disclosed which employs piezoelectric transducers to provide for variations in the mud flow through a mud pulser sleeve. The piezoelectric transducers used in the mud pulser are comprised of two ... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5191559 | Piezoelectric ceramic hydrostatic sound sensor A piezoelectric ceramic hydrostatic sound sensor or transducer having high ensitivity to hydrostatic pressure is made by placing a flat plastic disc between two flat layers of green ceramic material, compressing and fusing the layers, heating to a first te... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5153859 | Laminated piezoelectric structure and process of forming the same A method of forming a laminated piezoelectric structure is disclosed wherein a plurality of polarized piezoelectric films of vinylidene fluoride and trifluoroethylene are solvent welded together. The solvent welding solution comprises a copolymer of vinyl... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5136549 | Marine hydrophone A hydrophone is provided for use with a hydrophone array enclosed in a streamer cable that is deployed in a body of water. The active transducer elements of the hydrophone are electrically isolated from the sealed metal case in which they are mounted. The... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5099461 | Underwater electroacoustic transducers The FLEXBAR is a sonar transducer element that is basically a piezoceramic "free-free" flexure bar, but modified so as to radiate as a "monopole" rather than as a "dipole", and retaining the unique properties of being nodally mounted and dynamically balan... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5033032 | Air-gap hydrophone A hydrophone for the detection of sound or vibrational waves, comprising a piezo electric transducer within a Faraday cage such that it is in contact with and yet isolated from a deformable pressure transmitting medium that carries vibrations. The Faraday... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5001681 | Monolaminar piezoelectric bender bar A single stack of double poled piezoelectric ceramic elements (202) create a monolaminar bender bar (200) which can be used in acoustic applications. The stack is lined up such that adjacent elements (202) in bender bar (200) have oppositely poled top and... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4995014 | Low frequency hydrophone and depth sensor assembly The housing of a transducer supports both dynamic and static pressure sensors to obtain depth information as well as pressure wave signals. A semiconductive diaphragm with diffused resistances connected in a bridge is used as the static sensor which is ce... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4810913 | Increased sensitivity piezoelectric hydrophones A hydrophone is provided having at least one flexible piezoelectric sensitive element applied to a support, each sensitive element being formed of a flexible piezoelectric film associated with two electrodes and is applied to a synthetic plastic material ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4782910 | Bi-polar bender transducer for logging tools A bender acoustic transducer has a flat, piezoelectric element affixed to a flat, elongated inert element. The ends of the inert element are hinged on a supporting rectangular frame which has a rectangular opening. Two sides of the elements are exposed so... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4779246 | Electro-acoustic transducer An electro-acoustic transducer has a transducer plate having a piezo-electric layer attached thereto. The electro-acoustic transucer is clamped between bearing members at an annular edge region which is free of the piezo-electric layer. The piezo-electric... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4754441 | Directional flextensional transducer A directional flextensional transducer including a transducer shell capable of operation in odd and even drive modes and a transduction drive bar or the like. The transduction drive bar is excited in an even mode to impart extensional motion thereto and i... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4742495 | Acoustic energy transmitter for borehole logging An acoustic transmitter for borehole logging includes a flexure disc acoustic source affixed to one end of an open-ended pipe. A rubber boot surrounds the pipe and flexure disc source and fluidly isolates them from the surrounding borehole fluid. Oil fill... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4725994 | Ultrasonic transducer with a multiple-folded piezoelectric polymer film An ultrasonic transducer includes a piezoelectric polymer film folded as at least two layers and having electrodes on both the surfaces thereof. The ultrasonic transducer is responsive to a signal, applied across electrodes, to produce an ultrasonic wave ... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4709361 | Flexural disk transducer A flexural disk transducer includes two thickness poled piezoelectric disks each of which is bonded on one side to a metal backing plate of substantial thickness and on the other side to a thin metal "skin" or plate. The metal backing plates are, in turn,... | 11/24/1987 |
