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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2020
Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Vertreten Durch Den Bundesminister Für Wirtschaft Und Energie . . ., Berlin, DE;
Thomas Heckel, Kleinmachnow, DE;
Rainer Boehm, Rietz-Neuendorf, DE;
Abstract
Described are a transducer made of at least three transducer elements which approximate a sector of an elementary wave with a virtual point source, and a transducer arrangement with three transducers made of at least three transducer elements, wherein the transducers, in the cross section, are disposed along the shorter base and the two non-parallel legs of a virtual trapezoid. Moreover, the invention relates to an ultrasonic probe system comprising the transducer arrangement according to the invention and an inspection method using a transducer made of at least three transducer elements, with the number of transducer elements experiencing a virtual increase.