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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:
May. 02, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
J B Franklin, Dartmouth, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367158 ; 367159 ; 310337 ;
Abstract
An accelerometer for underwater acoustic sensors includes a pair of cylindrical piezoelectric crystals configured in a cantilever mode and having attached thereto an electrode segmented into four equal quadrants. In response to translational motion perpendicular to the axes of the piezoelectric crystals, orthogonal voltage signals are generated, from which the crossed dipole directivity patterns can be obtained. The symmetric use of two such piezoelectric crystals enables spurious responses, to rotational motion about an axis perpendicular to the central axis of a cylindrical container for the crystals, to be avoided.