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Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2009
Applicants:

Atul Goel, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Osvaldo Buccafusca, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Steven Martin, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Joel Philliber, Fort Collins, CO (US);

R. Shane Fazzio, Eden Prairie, MN (US);

Inventors:

Atul Goel, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Osvaldo Buccafusca, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Steven Martin, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Joel Philliber, Fort Collins, CO (US);

R. Shane Fazzio, Eden Prairie, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 9/125 (2006.01); B06B 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B06B 1/0611 (2013.01); B06B 1/0622 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus comprises a substrate and transducers disposed over the substrate, each of the transducers comprising a different resonance frequency. A transducer device comprises circuitry configured to transmit signals, or to receive signals, or both. The transducer device also comprises a transducer block comprising a plurality of piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers (PMUT), wherein each of the PMUTs; and an interconnect configured to provide signals from the transducer block to the circuitry and to provide signals from the circuitry to the transducer block.


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