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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1982
Filed:
May. 08, 1981
Dale O Ballinger, Denver, CO (US);
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
An ultrasonic signal transducer is characterized in that the piezoelectrically active element has a first unitary electrode over the entire surface of one face and a matrix of a plurality of individual electrodes on the opposite face. In the receive mode, such an arrangement effectively constitutes a plurality of individual transducers arranged in the matrix array while maintaining the efficacy of a unitary structure. The signals from the individual electrodes are individually amplified, full-wave rectified, and combined additively to produce a composite signal which eliminates the phase cancellation of the ultrasonic pulses distributed over the face of the transducer assembly.