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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2012
Applicant:
Teledyne Rd Instruments, Inc., Poway, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mark A. Vogt, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Teledyne RD Instruments, Inc., Poway, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/02 (2005.12); G01B 11/26 (2005.12); G01C 15/00 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/26 (2012.12); G01C 15/004 (2012.12);
Abstract
A system and method for forming acoustic beams is disclosed. One embodiment is an acoustic system configured to generate a plurality of beams non-orthogonal to a transducer array simultaneously with a vertical acoustic beam orthogonal to the array. The acoustic system includes a plurality of transducer elements arranged to form a two-dimensional array and electrically connected into rows in a first dimension and columns in a second dimension.