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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
May. 05, 2022
The United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Newport, RI (US);
Stephen C Butler, Portsmouth, RI (US);
Abstract
A squirter sonar transducer is provided as a body having a first end and a second end. The body is a cylindrical wall having a length and an inner diameter with a piezoelectric ring actuator disposed within the cylindrical wall. A baseplate is connected to the first end of the body and caps the first end. The second end of the body is open to define a resonator cavity within the body. The baseplate is made of a solid mass having a thickness of approximately fifty percent of the length of the cylindrical wall and has a recess approximately fifty percent of the thickness with a recess diameter equal to the inner diameter of the cylindrical wall.