Pepperl+fuchs Se

Regine Augenstein

Thomas Kaindl

Mario Kupnik

Matthias Rutsch

Axel Jaeger

Axel Jäger

A 1D ultrasonic transducer unit for material detection, comprising a housing having securing device for securing to a surface and having at least three discrete ultrasonic transducers designed to decouple sound waves with a consistent operating frequency between 20 kHz and 400 kHz in a gaseous medium, and a control unit designed to control each ultrasonic transducer individually, wherein two ultrasonic transducers, directly adjacent to one another, are spaced apart by a distance, the 1D ultrasonic transducer unit has a sound channel per ultrasonic transducer with an input opening, associated with exactly one respective ultrasonic transducer, and an output opening, the output openings are arranged along a straight line, a distance from the directly adjacent output opening corresponds at most to the full or half the wavelength in the gaseous medium and is smaller than the corresponding distance.

1D ultrasonic transducer unit for material detection

A 1D ultrasonic converter unit having at least three ultrasonic converters and a control unit for individually controlling each ultrasonic converter, wherein each ultrasonic converter has a housing, a piezoelectric body, and a sound decoupling layer for decoupling sound waves in a gaseous medium, is embedded in a common carrier structure, and emits and/or receives the same frequency between 20 kHz and 400 kHz. Each ultrasonic converter has one sound channel having an input opening associated with one sound decoupling layer, and an output opening. The output openings are arranged along a line, a distance between two adjacent output openings corresponds at most to the whole or half the wavelength of the sound frequency and is smaller than the distance of the input openings.

1D ultrasonic converter unit

A 1D ultrasonic transducer unit for area monitoring, having a housing having a securing device for securing to a surface and having at least three discrete ultrasonic transducers designed to decouple sound waves with a consistent operating frequency between 20 kHz and 400 kHz in a gaseous medium, and a control unit designed to control each ultrasonic transducer individually, wherein two ultrasonic transducers, directly adjacent to one another, are spaced apart by a distance, the 1D ultrasonic transducer unit has a sound channel per ultrasonic transducer with an input opening, associated with exactly one respective ultrasonic transducer, and an output opening, the output openings are arranged along a straight line, a distance from the directly adjacent output opening corresponds at most to the full or half the wavelength in the gaseous medium and is smaller than the corresponding distance.

1D ultrasonic transducer unit for area monitoring

A 1D ultrasonic transducer unit for detecting danger for a vehicle, comprising a housing mounted on the vehicle, which includes at least three discrete ultrasonic transducers, designed to decouple sound waves at a corresponding working frequency between 20 kHz and 400 kHz into a gaseous medium, and a control unit, designed to control each ultrasonic transducer individually, two ultrasonic transducers directly adjacent to each other in each case having a distance, the 1D ultrasonic transducer unit having one sound channel per ultrasonic transducer, each with one inlet opening assigned to exactly one ultrasonic transducer and one outlet opening (), the outlet openings being arranged along a straight line, a distance from directly adjacent outlet openings corresponding to no more than the full or half wavelength in the gaseous medium and being shorter than the corresponding distance.

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Mannheim, Germany

Regine Augenstein