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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1994
F Anthony Crandall, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Kevin V Jorgensen, Draper, UT (US);
Brian L Grose, Bountiful, UT (US);
Monroe Tyler, Sandy, UT (US);
EDO Western Corp., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for making a sliced phased array transducer formed from a single piezoelectric disk which has been bonded to a metal coated support surface. After bonding, the disk and attached metallic coating are cut into a plurality of conductively isolated staves which are then wired into a sequence which allows the array to emit two beams in opposite directions at a depression angle of about 60 degrees. In use, two of the arrays are used adjacent to each other with one emitting beams along the port and starboard sides of the vessel and the other being rotated 90 degrees to emit beams to the force and aft of the vessel, the four beams thereby forming a Janus configuration. Alternatively, the beams could be rotated 45 so that two beams are directed to both the port and starboard sides.