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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul E Madeley, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Litton Resources Systems, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ; B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2191 / ; 2191 / ; 2191 / ; 29593 ;
Abstract
A spring-suspended, moving-coil transducer to be tuned is mounted on a dynamic test fixture and excited by an oscillatory driving force calculated to drive the transducer at a desired resonant frequency. A laser beam, sensitive to a difference between the actual resonant frequency of the transducer and the desired resonant frequency, is focused on the spring. The energy of the laser beam alters the elastic constant of the spring by trimming or etching material therefrom until the difference between the actual resonant frequency of the transducer and the desired resonant frequency is eliminated.