High-gain directional transducer array

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1995-10-06

1997-01-07

Lobo, Ian J.

Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices

Signal transducers

Underwater type

367138, G01S 1500

Patent

active

055924417

ABSTRACT:
A transducer array according to the invention includes forty-two acoustic transducers for use in a fluid medium, with each of the transducers having maximum lateral dimensions of less than one acoustic wavelength in the medium, whereby the transducers themselves tend to radiate isotropically. The elements of the array are located at the vertices of an regular geodesic two-frequency icosahedron. The transducer array also includes a driver or a receiver, or both, and arrangements for coupling them to the array elements. A switching circuit can couple the array elements alternately to the driver or receiver, depending upon the operating mode. A conventional delay controller is coupled to the acoustic transducers, for controlling an acoustic beam formed by the array. In a particular embodiment of the invention, the array is operated at frequencies selected so that the inter-transducer spacing of any two mutually adjacent transducers does not exceed 2.lambda./3, and is not less than .lambda./3.

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patent: 3593818 (1971-07-01), Pohlmann
patent: 4673057 (1987-06-01), Glassco
patent: 5239518 (1993-08-01), Kazmar
patent: 5377166 (1994-12-01), Kuhn
patent: 5500493 (1996-03-01), Guigne et al.

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