Electrical generator or motor structure – Non-dynamoelectric – Piezoelectric elements and devices
Patent
1975-12-24
1978-12-12
Budd, Mark O.
Electrical generator or motor structure
Non-dynamoelectric
Piezoelectric elements and devices
310366, H01L 4110
Patent
active
041297997
ABSTRACT:
Focused ultrasonic transducer means of the zone plate type are shown for producing a focused ultrasonic wave field without the need for lenses, reflectors, a curved transducer or the like, which transducer means are adapted for ultrasonic nondestructive testing and inspection, ultrasonic examination in diagnostic medicine, sonic heat generation, aerosol formation, and the like. Such transducer means, of course, may be used as a focused ultrasonic transducer receiver as well as a transmitting transducer. The transducer includes a uniformly poled cylindrical shaped body of electromechanically responsive material, such as a piezoelectric crystal, with electrodes formed at opposite parallel faces thereof. A pair of central axially aligned circular electrodes of different size are located on the opposite body faces, together with concentric different size annular electrodes which surround the central electrodes. The radii of the central and annular electrodes are of different lengths such that electrodes on one face overlap adjacent electrodes on the opposite face, with the radial width of the overlapping areas decreasing inversely with increased radial position such that substantially equal overlapping electrode areas are formed. Electrical connection is made between the smallest diameter inner electrode and largest diameter outer electrode such that the large inner circular electrode and annular electrodes function, electrically, as pairs of series-connected electrodes, each of opposite phase. This electrode arrangement, on a uniformly polarized transducer body, results in a transducer with adjacent active opposite polarity zones having opposite deformation, the number of zones being equal to one less than the total number of electrodes employed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2194539 (1940-03-01), Barry et al.
patent: 2875355 (1959-02-01), Peterman
patent: 3384767 (1968-05-01), Arnold et al.
Beckman Victor R.
Budd Mark O.
SRI - International
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