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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1988
Filed:
May. 23, 1985
Bernd Granz, Oberasbach, DE;
Bertram Sachs, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Abstract
A miniature hydrophone is disclosed which contains a piezoelectric foil as a base element (2) with a linear arrangement of multiplicity of detector elements (10). In accordance with the invention, the electrodes (5) are arranged on a top surface (15) of one of the flat sides of a support (16) and are capacitively coupled by a bonding layer (6) to the base element (2). The detector elements (10) are associated with an amplifier (32) which, with equal length connecting leads (11, 26 and/or 12, 27), is fastened to a side face of the support (16). The electrical interconnection between the detector element (10) and the associated amplifier (32) employs a groove (24) through the corners of support 16. Additional such modules can form an assembly unit in a row arrangement of a size equal to that of the detector elements (10). Since all the connections (11, 26, 12, 27) to the amplifiers (32, 36) are very short and of equal length, the sensitivity of a system arrangement of such detector elements (10) and amplifiers (32 and/or 36) is homogeneous and very high.