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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2006
Kenichi Watanabe, Nishinomiya, JP;
Yasushi Nishimori, Nishinomiya, JP;
Kouzo Tokuyama, Nishinomiya, JP;
Koji Tokuda, Nishinomiya, JP;
Ryouichi Suetoshi, Nishinomiya, JP;
Kenichi Watanabe, Nishinomiya, JP;
Yasushi Nishimori, Nishinomiya, JP;
Kouzo Tokuyama, Nishinomiya, JP;
Koji Tokuda, Nishinomiya, JP;
Ryouichi Suetoshi, Nishinomiya, JP;
Furuno Electric Company, Limited, Hyogo-Ken, JP;
Abstract
An acoustic transducerhas a first cylindrical portionA and a second hemispherical portionB on which a plurality of transducer elementsare arranged. The transducer elements on the cylindrical portion are arranged to have six nearest neighbors. The arrangement may be such that the six transducer elements surrounding a given element describe the vertices of a regular hexagon. The hexagons thus described may be aligned so that two of their sides are parallel to the axis of the cylinder. The elements on the hemispherical portion may be arranged so that some elements have five nearest neighbors and others have six (the neighboring elements describing, for example, the vertices of hexagons and pentagons respectively). An underwater sounding apparatus may be constructed using the transducer.