Showa Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd.

Ichiya Imai

Takeo Yokoyama

Hideaki Asaoka

There is disclosed a solid ultrasonic delay line which comprises a delay medium having two parallel major faces and at least three end faces intersecting the major faces, an input transducer bonded to one of the end faces and polarized in a direction parallel to the major faces for transmitting an ultrasonic signal in a shear mode into the delay medium, and an output transducer bonded to one of the end faces for converting the ultrasonic signal having propagated through the delay medium into an electrical signal. The input and output transducers have boundary surfaces lying flush with the two major faces of the delay medium, the major faces and the boundary surfaces being ground to a surface roughness which is one-twentieth or smaller of the wavelength of the ultrasonic signal propagating through the delay medium. The major faces sandwich a path of the ultrasonic signal propagating through the delay medium and are spaced from each other by a distance which is subjected to variations that are one-twentieth or smaller of the wavelength of the ultrasonic signal propagating through the delay medium.

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Ayase, Japan

Ichiya Imai