USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Scott L Small

Thomas R Howarth

James F Tressler

James Merryfield

Patrick Arvin

Walter L Carney

Matthew Johnson

Phillip W Meadows

William Riggins

Provided is a fixture for concentrically aligning and assembling a Ceramic Stack Assembly transducer during manufacturing. The CSA fixture comprises a base, a top compression cap, a central rod and a fastener, one or more alignment posts, and a driving wedge. The base further includes a groove to accept and align a transducer rear-centering ring at a central axis of the fixture. The transducer rear-centering ring supports one or more copper foil or ceramic rings during assembly. The alignment posts and driving wedge apply radial pressure to the copper foil or ceramic rings during assembly to force concentric alignment. The top compression cap, central rod, and fastener compress and stress the CSA Ceramic once assembled. The fixture simultaneously provides concentric alignment, foil alignment and provides a mechanism for stressing the CSA. A method of use is also provided.

Ceramic stack assembly fixture

An illustrative cable connector hand tool and associated method are operable to permit cable connection sections to respectively pass through a side opening of hand tool members into a center aperture of the tool members. In one illustrative embodiment, the hand tool members are formed with a recessed portion adapted to receive an end of one of a pair of cable connectors such that mating edges of the cable connectors used to couple the cable connection sections are visible when the cable connectors are in a coupled configuration abutting each other. An illustrative embodiment includes the recessed portion formed with a plurality of keyway indentions or recesses spaced apart in the center aperture that are operable to engage keys, protrusions, or lugs on an outer wall of the cable connectors.

Method of manufacturing cable connector hand tools

Method of manufacturing a hand tool for coupling together first and second cable sections

An illustrative cable connector hand tool and associated methods are operable to permit cable connection sections to respectively pass through a side opening of hand tool members into a center aperture of the tool members. Exemplary hand tool members are formed with a recessed portion adapted to receive an end of one of a pair of cable connectors such that mating edges of the cable connectors used to couple the cable connection sections are visible when the cable connectors are in a coupled configuration abutting each other. An illustrative embodiment includes the recessed portion formed with a plurality of recesses spaced apart in the center aperture operable to engage protrusions on an outer wall of the cable connectors. Exemplary cable connectors engage each other with respective threaded connection sections to apply compressive or coupling force to two ends of the cable when the tools rotate the connectors.

Cable connector hand tools

An illustrative cable connector hand tool and associated methods are provided that include hand tool members having a side opening that allow cable connection sections to pass into a center aperture of the tool members. In one example, the hand tool members are formed with a recessed portion that receives an end of one of a pair of cable connectors such that mating edges of the cable connectors used to couple the cable connection sections are visible when the cable connectors are in a coupled configuration abutting each other. An exemplary recessed portion formed with a number of keyway indentions or recesses spaced apart in the center aperture that are operable to engage keys, protrusions, or lugs on an outer wall of the cable connectors.

Methods of using a hand tool to couple together first and second cable sections

A mount for acoustic transducers has a resilient sheet with a plurality of mounting apertures therein. Each mounting aperture has an annular groove formed about the inside surface of the sheet to accommodate one of the acoustic transducers. A pair of rigid, acoustically transparent plates are mounted on each side of the resilient sheet. Each plate has a plurality of communication apertures in it which correspond to the mounting apertures of the resilient sheet. The acoustic transducers are inserted into the mounting aperture of the resilient sheet. The acoustically transparent plates provide structural support for the mount.

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Newberry, IN, United States of America

Scott L Small