Furuno Electric Company Limited

Masajiro Iida

Hideharu Morimatsu

Yoshinari Yoshida

Itsuo Fukuoka

Kiyomi Minohara

Akira Sugiyama

Hiroshi Nakai

Yuzo Kobayashi

An ultrasonic detection system having an array of ultrasonic transducers that are uniformly closely disposed relative to each other such that the active surfaces for transmission or reception are maintained on a straight or curved line. The transducers form radiation or reception beams in a specific direction. Beam orientation is accomplished by selecting a group of transducers from the array and/or respectively applying appropriate phase-shifts to the signals to be fed to each of the transducers or to the signals produced from each of the transducers. Shields are maintained between two adjacent transducers for suppression of sidelobes.

Ultrasonic detection system

A scanning sonar system for detecting objects and displaying them on a circular screen and producing audible signals coordinated with the visual signals indicating the detection of an object.

An ultrasonic detection system which includes means for the transmission of signals in all directions, a circular array of transducers arranged at uniform intervals, means for producing output signals from spaced transducers and then sequentially combining outputs from sets of adjoining transducers to produce a plurality of received signals for display on indicating means.

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Indication device in plan position indication system

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Takarazuka, Japan

Masajiro Iida