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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1982
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
W James Trott, Annandale, VA (US);
Jacek Jarzynski, Bethesda, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367103 ; 67153 ;
Abstract
A broadband directional transducer which provides a beam pattern that is essentially constant for all frequencies above a certain cutoff frequency, an acoustic pressure angular distribution that is virtually independent of the distance from the transducer and no side lobes, includes an array of isophase, omnidirectional electro-acoustic elements on a spherical shell, each element being amplitude-shaded according to the shading function ##EQU1## where n is a positive integer, and .theta. is an angle measured from the axis of the spherical surface to a shaded element.