Electrical generator or motor structure – Non-dynamoelectric – Piezoelectric elements and devices
Patent
1999-04-12
2000-08-29
Dougherty, Thomas M.
Electrical generator or motor structure
Non-dynamoelectric
Piezoelectric elements and devices
310348, 310371, H01L 4108
Patent
active
061113409
ABSTRACT:
A dual-mode thickness-shear quartz pressure transducer includes a unitary piezoelectric crystal resonator and cylindrical housing structure wherein the resonator is located on a median radial plane of the housing and the exterior of the housing is provided with a pair of parallel flat surfaces which are located at an angle relative to the X" axis of the resonator. According to the presently preferred embodiment, the transducer is made from an SC-cut or a WAD-cut solid quartz crystal cylinder which is ultrasonically milled to form a plano-convex or bi-convex resonator disk in the medial radial plane of a hollow cylinder and the pair of exterior flats. The wall thickness of the cylinder is altered at the location of the flats such that stresses at the center of the resonator disk are anisotropic. According to the invention, the ratio of the stresses at the center of the resonator disk along the X" and Z" axes are optimized such that the pressure sensitivity of the third thickness harmonic of C mode vibration is maximized. Optimization of the ratio of the stresses along the X" and Z" axes is accomplished in particular by altering the (azimuthal) angle of the flats. According to a presently preferred embodiment of the invention, the flats are located at an azimuthal angle of approximately 134.degree. relative to the X" axis of a WAD-cut resonator.
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Matsumoto Noriyuki
Niwa Masaru
Sinha Bikash K.
Sudo Yukio
Batzer William B.
Dougherty Thomas M.
Gordon David P.
Schlumberger Technology Corporation
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