EP0363032A2 - Flexeinsgespannter Wandler - Google Patents

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EP0363032A2
EP0363032A2 EP89309332A EP89309332A EP0363032A2 EP 0363032 A2 EP0363032 A2 EP 0363032A2 EP 89309332 A EP89309332 A EP 89309332A EP 89309332 A EP89309332 A EP 89309332A EP 0363032 A2 EP0363032 A2 EP 0363032A2
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10K—SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10K11/00—Methods or devices for transmitting, conducting or directing sound in general; Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general
    • G10K11/02—Mechanical acoustic impedances; Impedance matching, e.g. by horns; Acoustic resonators
    • G10K11/04—Acoustic filters ; Acoustic resonators
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    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10K—SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10K9/00—Devices in which sound is produced by vibrating a diaphragm or analogous element, e.g. fog horns, vehicle hooters or buzzers
    • G10K9/12—Devices in which sound is produced by vibrating a diaphragm or analogous element, e.g. fog horns, vehicle hooters or buzzers electrically operated
    • G10K9/121—Flextensional transducers

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  • the present invention relates to a flextensional transducer which is adapted for use at greater depths than known flextensional trans­ducers.
  • Flextensional transducers are electro-mechanical transducers adapted to generate (or detect) sound in a fluid medium.
  • An example of a known form of flextensional transducer is disclosed in European Patent Application No. 0215657A in which an elliptical cylindrical shell and end plates define a cavity containing a piezoelectric ceramic drive stack for causing the shell to extend along the major axis of the ellipse thereby causing the sides of the shell to flex.
  • Pressure compensation arrangements for flextensional transducers have been suggested and one such arrangement is disclosed in EP0215657A in which an adjustable wedge assembly is used to pre­stress the drive stack and to compensate for pressure changes.
  • Another example of a pressure compensation arrangement for a flextensional transducer is disclosed in Canadian Patent No. 1171950 in which an annular resonator is provided with a bladder in communication with the surrounding medium.
  • a flextensional transducer comprising a shell defining a cavity and drive means located in the cavity and adapted to cause the shell to flex and further comprising a Helmholtz resonator for forming a hydrostatic pressure link and a low frequency acoustic link with the medium in which the flextensional transducer is located.
  • a flextensional transducer according to the present invention is insensitive to ambient pressure and consequently can operate at effectively unlimited depths.
  • the resonance frequency of the Helmholtz is substantially different from the resonance frequency of the cavity.
  • the resonance frequency of the Helmholtz resonator is approximately one octave lower than the resonator frequency of the cavity.
  • a further advantage is that the correct spacing of the cavity and Helmholtz resonance frequencies gives the flextensional transducer an extended low frequency performance.
  • the shell is an elliptical cylinder and there are two plates abutting the ends of the shell and the Helmholtz resonator comprises an orifice formed in a plate abutting an end of the shell.
  • the flextensional transducer may comprise a Helmholtz resonator with a double orifice - one in each end plate.
  • the cavity may be filled with seawater. This has several advantages: it reduces the static weight as the transducer can free-flood and empty via the orifice during deployment; it means that mechanical seals no longer become critical items of design; it produces the simplest possible transducer.
  • the cavity may be filled with an elastomer eg polyurethane.
  • an elastomer eg polyurethane.
  • An elastomer is likely to be relatively dense and stiff and will thus increase the Helmholtz resonance and may reduce efficiency at the flextensional resonance. However, it would produce a very rugged design.
  • the cavity may be filled with oil
  • use of oil would ease the problems of operating at very high voltages, and a diaphragm over the orifice could contain the oil, but differential thermal expansion may cause both mechanical and acoustic problems.
  • the drive assemblies need only be prestressed for amplitude plus a margin for safety. Stressing for any depth of operation becomes irrelevant once the cavity has flooded.
  • a flextensional transducer for use underwater for emitting high power, low frequency acoustic energy.
  • the transducer comprises a thick-walled elliptical cylindrical shell 10 of aluminium sealingly and slidably supported between two end plates 11.
  • a drive arrangement extends along the major axial plane of the shell 10 and comprises six stacks 12 of piezoelectric ceramic cells 13 arranged in three opposed pairs located each side of a central wedge assembly 14.
  • the stacks 12 act on the opposed wall sections of the shell element via respective D-section bars 15.
  • the cells may be made, for example, of lead zirconate titanate, and connected in parallel to receive an electrical energising signal. When energised, the stacks vibrate axially and thus induce the shell element to vibrate at the same frequency.
  • stacks 12 may be formed of magnetostrictive material.
  • the central wedge assembly comprises two outer wedge portions 17 each connected to one end of the respective drive elements 13 and an inner tapered portion 18.
  • the thin end of the tapered portion 18 includes a threaded bore 19 in which is engaged a bolt 20 which, together with washer 21, maintains the outer wedge portions 16 and the tapered portion 17 in predetermined relative positions and thus maintains on the transducer as a whole a predetermined compressive load.
  • a seal ring 22 and a spacer plate 23 are slidably located between each end face of the shell 10 and associated end plate 11 to allow the shell to vibrate freely with respect to the end plates whilst preventing ingress of fluid.
  • the end plates 11 are held in place by means of two tensile bolts 24 passing therebetween.
  • Both of the end plates 11 contain an orifice 25.
  • the orifices react with the cavity to form a Helmholtz resonator.
  • the compliance of the cavity defined by the shell 10 and the end plates 11 reacts with the fluid masses in the orifices 25 to resonate.
  • the dimensions of each orifice 25 control the respective Helmholz resonance for a given size of cavity.
  • the Helmholtz resonance is well-spaced from the cavity resonance.
  • the Helmholtz resonance may be set one octave lower ie at 400 Hz (implying a wavelength of 3.75 metres).
  • the orifices 25 are 10mm in diameter. An orifice so tiny compared with its wavelength will have very low radiation resistance and should therefore contribute very little to the transducer output.
  • the Helmholtz resonance will have a very high Q and it may be necessary to damp the resonance to avoid excessive excursions of the shell if the resonance is accidentally excited.
  • Damping may be achieved acoustically by placing damping material, such as rubber, in the cavity.
  • damping may be achieved by a feedback arrangement in which a hydrophone in the cavity provides a signal to control the drive voltage of the drive stacks 12.
  • Figure 4 shows the response of a flextensional transducer including a Helmholtz resonator (full line) contrasted with that of a known flextensional transducer (dotted line).
  • the drive stacks 12 are potted in a electrically insulating elastomer such as polyurathane (as indicated by shading in Figures 2 and 3).
  • the cavity may contain a plurality of compliant tubes 26 for helping to lower the Helmholtz resonance.
  • the tubes are suitable for immersion to great depth.
  • the tubes 26 are elliptical in cross-section and are thin-walled metallic tubes having sealed ends and filled with air. Other forms of compliant tubes may also be used for this purpose or differently shaped compliant articles may also be suitable.
  • the transducer In use, the transducer is lowered to the required depth in seawater and a driving signal at the required frequency is supplied to the drive elements via cable 27, to cause vibration of the shell element.
  • the two orifices 25 permit the cavity of the flextensional transducer to flood freely with seawater.
  • the cavity is at the same hydrostatic pressure as the ambient sea water so that the flextensional transducer is insensitive to depth changes.
  • This embodiment of flextensional transducer operates analogously in some respects to a bass-reflex cabinet type of loudspeaker.
  • radiation from inside the cavity of the flextensional transducer which is out of phase with radiation from the exterior of the shell 10, radiates through the orifices 25, still out of phase, giving a poor response.
  • the Helmholtz resonance of the cavity plus the orifices 25 a phase change occurs and, above resonance, the internal radiation emerges from the orifices 25, if at all, phase reversed and in phase with the external radiation.
  • the cavity may be filled with substances other than seawater, such as oil or an elastomer.

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GB888823245A GB8823245D0 (en) 1988-10-04 1988-10-04 Flextensional transducer

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EP0421613A2 (de) * 1989-10-06 1991-04-10 British Aerospace Public Limited Company Schallerzeugender Wandler
FR2697710A1 (fr) * 1992-11-05 1994-05-06 France Etat Armement Procédé et transducteur pour émettre des ondes acoustiques de très basses fréquences, dans un liquide en immersion illimitée.
FR2713430A1 (fr) * 1993-12-03 1995-06-09 France Etat Armement Procédé d'émission d'ondes acoustiques très basses fréquences à forte puissance, et transducteurs correspondants.
EP0684084A1 (de) * 1994-05-27 1995-11-29 ETAT FRANCAIS Représenté par le Délégué Général pour l'Armement Verfahren und Wandler zum Ausstrahlen von Breitband- und Niederfrequenz-Schallwellen in unbegrensden Tauchtiefe
AT403219B (de) * 1995-02-01 1997-12-29 Scheidl Rudolf Dipl Ing Dr Tec Vorrichtung zum ansteuern eines hydrostatischen antriebes
WO2003061334A2 (en) * 2002-01-10 2003-07-24 Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. Wave flextensional shell configuration
FR2850217A1 (fr) * 2003-01-17 2004-07-23 Cedrat Technologies Actionneur piezoactif a deplacement amplifie amorti
WO2010076391A1 (en) * 2008-12-31 2010-07-08 Patria Aviation Oy Oscillator in liquid

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JOURNAL OF ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, vol. 68, no. 4, October 1980, pages 1031-1037, New York, US; R.S. WOOLLETT: "Basic problems caused by depth and size constraints in low-frequency underwater transducers" *

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EP0421613A2 (de) * 1989-10-06 1991-04-10 British Aerospace Public Limited Company Schallerzeugender Wandler
EP0421613A3 (en) * 1989-10-06 1991-11-13 British Aerospace Plc Sound generating transducer
FR2697710A1 (fr) * 1992-11-05 1994-05-06 France Etat Armement Procédé et transducteur pour émettre des ondes acoustiques de très basses fréquences, dans un liquide en immersion illimitée.
FR2713430A1 (fr) * 1993-12-03 1995-06-09 France Etat Armement Procédé d'émission d'ondes acoustiques très basses fréquences à forte puissance, et transducteurs correspondants.
EP0657868A1 (de) * 1993-12-03 1995-06-14 ETAT FRANCAIS Représenté par le délÀ©gué général pour l'armement Verfahren und Wandler zum Aussenden von sehr niederfrequenten akustischen Wellen mit grosser Leistung
EP0684084A1 (de) * 1994-05-27 1995-11-29 ETAT FRANCAIS Représenté par le Délégué Général pour l'Armement Verfahren und Wandler zum Ausstrahlen von Breitband- und Niederfrequenz-Schallwellen in unbegrensden Tauchtiefe
FR2720589A1 (fr) * 1994-05-27 1995-12-01 France Etat Armement Procédé et transducteur pour émettre des ondes acoustiques à larges bandes et basses fréquences en profondeur d'immersion illimitée.
US5579287A (en) * 1994-05-27 1996-11-26 L'etat Francais, Represente Par Le Delegue General Pour L'armement Process and transducer for emitting wide band and low frequency acoustic waves in unlimited immersion depths
AT403219B (de) * 1995-02-01 1997-12-29 Scheidl Rudolf Dipl Ing Dr Tec Vorrichtung zum ansteuern eines hydrostatischen antriebes
WO2003061334A2 (en) * 2002-01-10 2003-07-24 Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. Wave flextensional shell configuration
WO2003061334A3 (en) * 2002-01-10 2004-11-11 Bae Systems Information Wave flextensional shell configuration
FR2850217A1 (fr) * 2003-01-17 2004-07-23 Cedrat Technologies Actionneur piezoactif a deplacement amplifie amorti
FR2850218A1 (fr) * 2003-01-17 2004-07-23 Cedrat Technologies Actionneur piezoactif a deplacement amplifie amorti
US6927528B2 (en) 2003-01-17 2005-08-09 Cedrat Technologies Piezoactive actuator with dampened amplified movement
DE102004002249B4 (de) 2003-01-17 2019-01-31 Cedrat Technologies Piezoaktiver Aktor mit Bewegungsverstärkung
WO2010076391A1 (en) * 2008-12-31 2010-07-08 Patria Aviation Oy Oscillator in liquid
US8995231B2 (en) 2008-12-31 2015-03-31 Patria Aviation Oy Oscillator in liquid

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