EP0118329A2 - Geschwindigkeitshydrophon - Google Patents

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EP0118329A2
EP0118329A2 EP84400132A EP84400132A EP0118329A2 EP 0118329 A2 EP0118329 A2 EP 0118329A2 EP 84400132 A EP84400132 A EP 84400132A EP 84400132 A EP84400132 A EP 84400132A EP 0118329 A2 EP0118329 A2 EP 0118329A2
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Charles Maerfeld
Michel Josserand
Claude Gragnolati
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    • B06—GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN GENERAL
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  • the invention relates to hydrophones and in particular to devices of this type which deliver an electrical signal in response to the vibrational speed of the incident acoustic waves, this response being flat over a wide frequency range.
  • acoustic pressure transducers arranged to provide an electrical signal characteristic of the pressure gradient within the acoustic wave.
  • Pressure gradient hydrophones therefore consist of a pair of pressure sensing cells at two separate locations.
  • the sensitivity varies as a function of the frequency.
  • the speed hydrophone to which the present invention applies comprises a mobile element immersed in the fluid, in order to match the particulate movement generated by the acoustic wave at a determined location.
  • This current advantageously constitutes the response signal independent of the frequency in a range situated above the natural resonant frequency of the deformable assembly comprising the reference mass.
  • the electro-acoustic transducer element has a lamellar shape of sufficient flexibility to deliver an electrical signal substantially proportional to the particle speed of the fluid at the wavefront received by the hydrophone.
  • the particulate movement of the fluid is complex in particular by the fact that the transducer element vibrates in flexion, with a deflection linked to the distance which separates it from the inertial mass in which the transducer element is embedded. .
  • the transducer element comprises several suitably polarized layers.
  • the hydrophone according to the invention there is a choice between materials with low piezoelectric coefficients and with low elasticity modulus such as piezoelectric polymers or materials with high piezoelectric coefficients and with high elasticity modulus such as than piezoelectric ceramics.
  • the choice of thickness of the materials used results in stiffness and sensitivity, but the extent and the particular shape of the deformable element are also important, since they condition the extent of the frequency range where a response flat can be expected.
  • the main object of the invention is a speed hydrophone with moving equipment comprising at least one piezoelectric transducer element of lamellar shape connected by embedding to an inertial mass, said transducer element capturing the particulate speed of the fluid in which it is immersed, characterized in that the element consists of flexible strips radially separated and mounted in a ring; each of said strips having one end embedded in said inertial mass.
  • FIG. 1 a piezoelectric transducer element in the form of a disc 13 is seen.
  • This transducer element is made for example of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVF 2 ).
  • Its main faces include electrodes 17 and 18 intended to collect the electric charges induced by piezoelectric effect when it operates as a sensor of acoustic vibrations propagated by the aqueous medium in which it is immersed.
  • FIG. 2 represents the zone 2 of the transducer element 13 of FIG. 1 delimited by the points A, B, C and D.
  • various mechanical tensions govern the equilibrium of the zone 2.
  • F4 represents the radial tensions.
  • F 5 represents the normal to the main faces of the element 2 the tangential tensions.
  • F 3 represents the circumferential tensions. The invention proposes to eliminate these circumferential tensions which add stiffness to the disc 13, by making radial cuts which decompose the disc into flexible strips arranged in a crown.
  • FIG 3 is an elevational view of a hydrophone according to the invention.
  • This hydrophone comprises a piezoelectric transducer element 13 composed of identical flexible strips 31 arranged around a mass 10 acting as an installation.
  • the cutouts 1 provide spaces between the strips 31 constituting the transducer element 13.
  • the mass 10 and composed of two blocks 101 and 102 between which the strips 31 are pinched.
  • the blocks 101 and 102 are made of high density material for example in tungsten.
  • the blocks 101 and 102 are drilled axially, so as to be tightened against the elements 31 by means of a bolt II and a nut 12.
  • each lamella 31 has a flared shape towards the periphery as illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • Figure 5 is an elevational view of the hydrophone of Figures 3 and 4 associated with a current amplifier 30.
  • the strips 31 are provided with electrodes located on their main faces.
  • Contact pieces 14 connected to the electrical wires 15 and 16 are interposed between the blocks 101 or 102 and the main face of the strips 31.
  • the contact pieces 14 comprise on the side of the strips an electrically conductive element and on the side of the blocks 101 and 102 an insulating element. This arrangement ensures the paralleling of the electrodes located on the same side of the lamellae 31.
  • FIG. 6 represents the sectional view of a bimorph piezoelectric element composed of two layers 40 and 41 of piezoelectric material having opposite polarizations. These permanent electrical polarizations are parallel to the direction Oy. Thus a bending of this bimorph structure causes the appearance of opposite electric charges on the external faces of the layers 40 and 41.
  • the main external faces of the layers 40 and 41 are covered with metallic layers 42 and 43 forming electrodes. As shown in FIG. 5, one of the electrodes is connected by 13 to one terminal of the current amplifier 30, the other electrode being connected by 16 to the other terminal which is for example grounded.
  • the piezoelectric material of the layers 40 and 41 may in particular be a ceramic, for example PZT, a polymer, for example PVF 2 or a thin layer of Zn 0 deposited on a substrate.
  • the total thickness is for example 0.2 mm.
  • the electrodes 42 and 43 can be produced by vacuum evaporation deposition of a chromium layer 5 nm thick, an aluminum layer 50 nm thick and a chromium layer 5 nm thick.
  • an insulating film for example a varnish.
  • Figure 7 shows the sectional view of a three-layer sensitive element.
  • This element comprises two piezoelectric layers 40 and 41 of polarization parallel to the direction Oy. Between the layers 40 and 41 is disposed a layer 44. If the layer 44 is chosen to be electrically conductive, the polarizations of the layers 40 and 41 can be same direction, and for example the layer 44 is grounded and the external electrodes are connected to the same output terminal. If on the other hand, the layer 44 is insulating, the polarizations of the layers 40 and 41 are necessarily opposite.
  • the layer 44 can for example be made of the same base material as the layers 40 and 41.
  • a particular embodiment of lamellae comprises two layers of piezoelectric PVF 2 40 and 41 and a layer 44 of PVF 2 loaded with carbon so as to be conductive of electricity. In other embodiments, the layer 44 is a non-polarized insulating layer.
  • Another variant of the invention comprises lamellae 31 composed of a single piezoelectric layer having an inhomogeneous piezoelectric polarization along the direction of the axis Oy.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an ogival hydro-dynamic profile of the block 101 allowing it to undergo the least possible entrainment resulting from the particulate movement of the fluid in which the hydrophone is immersed.
  • FIG. 9 shows a variant of the embodiment of FIG. 3.
  • the speed hydrophone comprises a stepped assembly of sensors 32 whose lamellae are arranged in crowns.
  • the strips 31 have a flared shape towards the periphery.
  • the lamellae 31 have their electrodes placed in parallel by means of contact pieces 70. These have two conductive faces 71 separated by an insulating layer 72. A contact piece 70 is placed between two sensors in a ring 32. The distribution of the sensors in ring 32 increases the sensitivity to incident acoustic waves.
  • the invention provides for providing the peripheral end of the strips 31 weights, for example in light alloy.
  • all of these weights can form a strapping ring mounted so as to prevent it from acting as a stiffener.
  • FIG. 10 represents an embodiment comprising an inertial mass forming a cylindrical conduit 80.
  • the piezoelectric electro-acoustic transducer comprises a single ring 32 of strips 31. The strips are separated from each other by radial slots 1.
  • the ring 32 is embedded in the cylindrical conduit 80 by a pinch groove 86.
  • the leading edges 89 of the cylindrical conduit 80 are hydrodynamically profiled.
  • the cylindrical conduit 80 is closed by impermeable membranes 65.
  • the interior of the cylindrical duct 80 is a closed space which can be filled with an electrical insulating liquid allowing good adaptation of acoustic impedances.
  • the membranes 65 transmit the vibratory movement of the water to the insulating liquid.
  • FIG. 11 is a meridian section of a hydrophone comprising an inertial mass forming a cylindrical conduit 80. Crowns 32 of lamellae 31 are embedded by their periphery inside the cylindrical conduit 80. The electrodes carried by the faces of the lamellae 31 are connected in parallel to the inputs of a current amplifier via contact sockets 81. These comprise two conductive layers 84 separated by a ring of insulating material 85. A contact socket 81 is provided between two rings 32 successive strips 31.
  • the cylindrical conduit 80 is closed by waterproof membranes 65.
  • the interior of the cylindrical conduit 80 is a closed space which can be filled with an electrical insulating liquid to ensure the transmission of the acoustic waves.
  • the cylindrical conduit 80 can be filled with oil with high insulating power.
  • FIGS. 12 and 13 give two exemplary embodiments of lamella crowns 31.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates an exemplary embodiment advantageously using ceramic as the piezoelectric material.
  • the separate slats 31 are arranged radially and attached to the center by a connection piece made of light material 82. They are separated from each other by triangular spaces 1.
  • FIG. 13 illustrates an exemplary embodiment advantageously using PVF 2 as piezoelectric material.
  • the crown 32 illustrated in FIG. 13 can be used in particular with the hydrophones illustrated in FIGS. 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 11.
  • the crown 32 is obtained by making cuts 1 in a disc, for example made of PVF 2 .
  • the cuts 1 separate the crown 32 into strips 31.
  • a hole 86 is made allowing it to be mounted in the devices illustrated in FIGS. 3, 4, 5 and 9.
  • the crowns 32 or the lamellae can be cut from a disc of piezoelectric polymer, for example PVF 2e obtained by forging.
  • a disc of piezoelectric polymer for example PVF 2e obtained by forging.
  • the obtaining of such a disc is described in the patent application in France filed by the Applicant on February 22, 1982 under the national registration number 82.02 876.
  • the mechanical and piezoelectric anisotropy is invariant according to concentric circles.
  • the diagram in Figure 14 shows the shape of a speed hydrophone frequency response curve.
  • the diagram gives the frequency f on the abscissa and the ordinate the amplitude of the electrical signal S (f) supplied by the hydrophone in response to an incident acoustic wave of predetermined level and of frequency f.
  • the curve comprises a plateau 50 which starts from the resonance frequency f R and which extends towards the high frequencies, apart from the conventional accidents.
  • the range 50 of constant sensitivity is limited towards the low frequencies by a range 54 of resonance.
  • the sensitivity can have a point 53 or a round 61 depending on the expected damping.
  • the response drops at a slope of 12 dB / octave.
  • the frequency response characteristic of FIG. 14 was obtained by connecting the hydrophone to an amplifier having a low electrical impedance at any frequency relative to the internal impedance of the hydrophone. At high frequencies, this load condition of the speed hydrophone is no longer satisfied since the capacitive reactance decreases with frequency, but other phenomena occur to limit upwards the operating range at constant level.
  • FIGS 15, 16 and 17 are explanatory figures used to understand the frequency behavior of the speed hydrophone according to the invention.
  • the model used comprises a mechanical excitation by the acoustic wave symbolized by a generator 55 of particle speed.
  • the flexibly deformable piezoelectric strips are symbolized by a spring 56 which connects the generator 55 to the inertial mass 57.
  • the oscillogram 51 represents as a function of time the particle displacement communicated to the spring 56 and to the suspended mass 57. It is assumed that the incident acoustic wave has no direct motive action on the suspended mass 57.
  • the passive spring-mass assembly then forms a resonant cell having a natural frequency f R function of the ratio ⁇ where k represents the stiffness of the spring and m the mass used for embedding the slats 31.
  • FIG. 16 corresponds to the case where the excitation frequency corresponds to the resonance frequency f R.
  • the displacements of the mass 57 are in phase opposition with those of the connection point between the generator 55 and the spring 56.
  • the deformation 58 of the spring 56 may have a magnitude greater than the amplitude of the excitation.
  • FIG. 17 corresponds to the case where the excitation frequency f is significantly higher than the resonance frequency f R.
  • the inertial mass 57 remains almost immobile so that the displacements communicated by the generator 55 apply almost completely to the deformation 58 of the spring 56.
  • This operating mode corresponds to the sensitivity plate 50 of FIG. 14.
  • Figure 18 is a simplified electrical diagram of the connection between the speed hydrophone and its amplifier.
  • the capacitor 59 of capacity C represents the internal admittance of the hydrophone.
  • the Y value admittance 60 represents the amplifier input circuit. According to this diagram, operation as a speed hydrophone is ensured if the current i generated by piezoelectric effect passes as much as possible through the amplifier circuit, which supposes that the admittance j C is less than Y.
  • the input quantity of the amplifier is almost the short current - circuit of the piezoelectric generator.

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