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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2011
Robert Hickling, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
Robert Hickling, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for measuring sound intensity emitted by a vibrating surface (). The apparatus includes a probe () with three miniature microphones in the side-by-side arrangement, attached to a straight supporting tube (). The three microphones are matched in phase and amplitude and form a geometric straight line. The supporting tube () with the geometric straight line of microphones is positioned perpendicularly close to the vibrating surface (). The geometric straight line of microphones can be extended to intersect the vibrating surface at the measurement point (). The microphones are supported at the ends of narrow tubes () attached perpendicularly to the supporting tube (). The tubes contain wires from the microphones that are collected inside the supporting tube () and connected to the instrumentation (). The sign of computed sound-intensity spectra and sound intensity indicates the direction of sound-intensity flow at the vibrating surface.