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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2013
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Masato Satou, Nara, JP;
Hidetomo Nagahara, Kyoto, JP;
Yuji Fujii, Nara, JP;
Akihisa Adachi, Kyoto, JP;
Aoi Watanabe, Nara, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasonic transducer comprises a metal plate; an acoustic matching member fastened to one of surfaces of the metal plate, a piezoelectric substrate which is fastened to the other surface of the metal plate and generates a vibration; and an insulating damping member covering a surface of the piezoelectric substrate which surface is on an opposite side of a surface fastened to the metal plate; wherein a thickness of the insulating damping member is set to a length which is n/2 of a wavelength of the vibration propagating through the insulating damping member.