Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R5/00—Stereophonic arrangements
  • H04R5/027—Spatial or constructional arrangements of microphones, e.g. in dummy heads

Definitions

• this resonator device and circuits for tridimensional detection and receiving of sonic waves, even of a very low amplitude and frequency, in fluids, and suitable for use in cybernetics, in the form of a slender transducer system, that is always compatible with the binaural human perception of sound, in accordance with the present invention is characterised by the fact that it includes two pairs of transducers (the N, W pair corresponding to a Left-type human ear, and operates best with sounds from an anticlockwise direction, whilst the E, S pair corresponding to a Right-type human ear that, being specular to the other, operates best with sounds from a clockwise direction), that are aligned symmetrically one pair from the other, with the two left transducers always mirroring those on the right just like the human left and right ear.
• These four transducers are appropriately fitted and spatially aligned on corresponding support structures that can be likened to the arms or prongs of a tuning-fork.
• These structures can be described as being 'like two tuning-forks', with resonating/vibrating masses due to signals, fields or waves (that include electronic/electrical transducers on the prongs), placed side-by-side with the four prongs facing four different ways, arranged at 90° angles, one from the other, in an anticlockwise or clockwise direction (the passage from anticlockwise to clockwise direction, and vice versa, occurs through the simple swapping of the two transducers of a single pair, and maintaining the electrical/electronic circuits unaltered for all of the possible configurations: therefore in the first configuration, for example, in Sheet 1/5, the N transducer of the anticlockwise left pair switches from external to internal and assumes the position occupied by W, leaving, therefore the W transducer to become the most extreme outer left).
• This resonator device can in fact be 'tuned', as though it were a musical instrument, but in this case it would be done only, or above all, to receive particular frequencies at the maximum sensitivity possible without the use of electronic amplification and/or filters
• Hermann Ludwig originally von He nholtz (1821-1894) used hollow balls of glass/spun brass with two directly opposing holes or neck-like apertures; the larger aperture was pointed in the direction of a sound source, and the smaller, slender nipple inserted into the ear.
• This device is still referred to today as a Hehnholtz Resonator.
• the resonator device in accordance with the present invention is characterised by the fact that it represents the most sophisticated development to date of a Helmholtz resonator, and it has become a slender transducer system, that differs totally from an artificial head or dummy head.
• This electronic/electromechanical transducer system picks up mechanical vibrations, even of time domain very low amplitude and frequency (improving the detection of geo-electrical waves induced by gravitational signals), infrasonic, sonic and ultrasonic waves, acoustic waves, shock waves, sonic booms through photo-electric detectors, acoustic, capacitive or electromechanical transducers or vibratory elements, and other types of transducer like velocity or pressure gradient microphone cartridges or capsules, to convert movement and vibrations that have been captured (in the atmosphere, surrounded by gas, immersed in water or other types of liquid) into electrical signals.
• This resonator device can operate across a wide temperature span, starting at approximately absolute zero, right through to conditions of extreme heat, or extreme levels of humidity also with dust, magnetic fields, radioactivity and so on, in accordance with the present invention consisting of a slender cybernetic transducer system capable of truly emulating the human sense of hearing especially when configured to reproduce the characteristics that exist between the external and internal human ear (with the actual auditory canal or 'meatus' that connects the ear drum to the outer ear having an average length of 27 mm) that functions as if it were an open organ pipe where its lowest resonating frequency would be 3181 Hz.
• This device is also a system than can be used for recording sounds in stereophonic form whilst retaining at all times an unaltered and faithful three dimensional reproduction of the sounds, that is always compatible with the binaural human perception of sound via earphones, audio head phones, speakers, loudspeakers, sound diffusers, from twin audio channel satellite radio and TV transmissions and so on. It is therefore compatible with all types of equipment currently in existence for recording, mixing, transmitting and reproducing sounds, or images with sounds (video, movie and much more). All audible sounds are audible from the extreme audible left to the extreme audible right, from the highest audible point to the lowest audible point, including the front and rear, always precisely defined.
• this resonator device for recording inaudible sounds some of which can be heard through recognisable physical effects such as resonance or acoustic beats using two separate channels (Fig. 13 and 15, Sheet 5/5).
• this resonator device can also exploit one channel where the compatibility with the binaural human perception of sound is not required.
• This device is in fact capable of identifying the direction from which a sound or signal originates using only one Left-type channel (that operates best in an anticlockwise direction) or Right-type channel (being specular to the other, operates best in a clockwise direction).
• a major characteristic of this type of industrial application is that it consists of Real-Time detection without the need to use any rotating parts (Fig.
• the resonating device assumes only values of resistivity when it intercepts sounds for which it has been designed. It in fact renders the reactive values identical (inductive and capacitive) causing one to cancel out the other. At these frequencies, commonly referred to as resonating, this device behaves as though it were a perfectly ohmic transducer system. There are a several values of frequency at which a cancelling out of the total reactance value occurs, that corresponds to the minimal impedance value, and therefore maintaining the voltage values constant will result in an increment of the value of the current generated by this device at the output. It is also possible however, to produce particular configurations on the basis of required uses and applications.
• the device in accordance with the invention and the associated system configurable with it can be used to detect sounds that, because of their specific frequency (ultrasonic or infrasonic waves'). as ⁇ vell as their low intensity (less than 20 ⁇ Pa at a frequency of 1 KHz corresponding with the low hearing threshold), remain inaudible to the human ear.
• sounds that, because of their specific frequency (ultrasonic or infrasonic waves').
• ⁇ vell as their low intensity (less than 20 ⁇ Pa at a frequency of 1 KHz corresponding with the low hearing threshold)
• these include, for example, the sound of a water droplet as it detaches itself from a dropper.
• This resonator device can vibrate at more than one resonating frequency, in relation to the precise values for which its mechanical vibrating structure has been designed. It is in fact the same as the taut string (or vibrating string) of a pianoforte that is capable of vibrating at more than one frequency corresponding to the respective harmonics that are stationary waves of differing lengths and frequencies.
• This device's major quality does not rest with the different types of transducers with which it can be equipped (these transducers can in fact be of any type as long as they are able to convert the movements of the prongs - which support and hold them - into electrical signals when they resonate, with the addition of incremental vibrations for sound pressure in air) but rather in the quality and type of the structure that supports and holds them, and it is this that in particular constitutes the main content of this patent.
• This resonator device more than any other transducer currently available, is in fact capable of intercepting and capturing pure sounds (fundamental harmonic or fundamental overtone or first partial) and in so doing can transform the maximum quantity of energy received into electrical signals. The maximum amount of energy received must not therefore be dispersed in the form of sounds
• the device in accordance with the invention and the related system configurable with it allows the picking up of all sounds at their precise point of origin (azimuthal and zenithal angular localisation) and simultaneously present in one given environment (separation and distinguishing of the sound's sources), including the different and numerous points of origin of the uttering of dust particles or so called "background noise" caused by the environment but also due to molecules of gas (Brownian motion). They will remain separated even at the moment of listening, without one superimposing another.
• the device in accordance with the present invention, can also be used as a detector of geo-electrical signals (dust particles or cells that are stimulated and influenced by gravitational field and from gravitational wave sources) in gaseous or liquid environments in as much as the said device detects time domain amplitude and frequency variations in electric potential between two condensers (in particular when they have identical capacity values) at a constant charge when the membrane of one of the transducers moves with respect to the other (even in the absence of the effect of jittering on particles and molecules at temperatures of approximately absolute zero degrees).
• geo-electrical signals dust particles or cells that are stimulated and influenced by gravitational field and from gravitational wave sources
• a further advantage of this device is that it can be manufactured at very low costs and can therefore be fitted to audio, video, and movie equipment (both for amateur and professional use) and can be used as a tridimensional precision sound level meter or professional microphone and can also be employed in the manufacture of professional audio instruments, even at a very low cost. This is particularly useful in industrial applications e.g. quality control in automatic production, for detecting and locating masses and foreign bodies in foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals and in other applications where x-rays and microwaves would not be advisable, and so on.
• a resonator device that is a configurable multipurpose sound system that can be used for recording sounds in stereophonic form whilst retaining at all times an unaltered and faithful three dimensional reproduction of sounds, that is always compatible with the binaural human perception of sound.
• this resonator device is applicable in diagnosing and analysing biological material and in the field of therapy (recording and sampling in a way which requires outputs through transducers or elements placed on skin of the human body). It is particularly suited for therapies using several types of procedures in which recorded sound samples of a particular type of waves (infrasound and ultrasound) suitable for electromedical applications can be amplified (with the tridimensional amplifications of all electrical parameters), directed and concentrated according to the required use. The maximum available sonic energy is concentrated at the point where the two waves, emitted by tire two frontal transmitters (positioned precisely one opposite the other, as shown in Sheet 5/5, Fig. 14), meet.
• this invention cannot be directly compared with others, because, above all, it derives its particular and unique characteristics and performance from the fact that it vibrates, as does a diapason, "imitating” and “emulating” its physical properties.
• this transducer system can also be produced with a dedicated amplification circuit designed to transfer intact to the output all of the tridimensional parameters of the signals captured by the original (diapason-like) resonator device.
• this resonator device consisting of four upright prongs or forks, or a 'double diapason' (or 'triple diapason', where it becomes possible to consider the production of a third diapason for the existence of a horizontal axis of contiguousness between the internal of the left and right hand prongs of the two diapasons), that each prong is specifically turned with its detection surface pointing in the direction of its own cardinal point (so that one faces North, one West, one South, and the other East, in an anticlockwise or clockwise direction in 90° steps).
• Background Art of The Invention Relating to The Field of Sound Transducers Intended For Binaural Listening That Is Characteristically That of Human Beings.
• PatentNumber US 4751738 Date of Patent: 14 June 1988 Inventors: Brearley, Maurice N. and Widrow, Bernard.
• PatentNumber US 5793875 Date of Patent: 11 August 1998 Inventors: Widrow, Bernard and Lehr, Michael A.
• PatentNumber FR 2501448 Publication date: 10 September 1982
• PatentNumber US 4536887 - (Publication Date: 20 August 1985)
• PatentNumber US 4703506 - (Publication Date: 27 October 1987)
• PatentNumber US 4752961 - (Publication Date: 21 June 1988)
• PatentNumber EP 0690657 - (Publication Date: 03 January 1996) - PatentNumber: US 5581620 - (Publication Date: 03 December 1996).
• PatentNumber US 5583962 - (Publication Date: 10 December 1996) that irreparably and in a contrived way alters signals that are truly tridimensional (in this case it would be more accurate to speak of virtual three dimensionality rather than real).
• PatentNumber US 5583962 - (Publication Date: 10 December 1996) that irreparably and in a contrived way alters signals that are truly tridimensional (in this case it would be more accurate to speak of virtual three dimensionality rather than real).
• PatentNumber US 3800088 (Publication Date: 26 March 1974).
• ACOUSTIC IMAGE LOCALIZING SYSTEM in which an acoustic impulse is emitted from a sound source to a dummy of a human head.
• R Variable resistance, potentiometer or precision trimmer (for controlling frontality);
• A Amplifier / Preamplifier with separate low voltage feeders connected to a separate supply apparatus;
• IC Single integrated circuit with two separate low voltage feeders (an original system of tridimensional preamplifiers developed for this device);
• Rear front or rear origin/direction of the acoustic waves or vibrations (Sheet 5/5, Figs. 12 and 15/a);
• Direction direction in which the front of the head/device is facing
• the resonator device consists of a system having several transducers (see Fig. 8) appropriately fitted and spatially aligned on corresponding support structures than can be likened to the arms or prongs of a tuning fork (see Fig. 9/b and Fig. 9/c).
• This structure can be compared to two tuning forks placed side by side with the four prongs facing four different ways , arranged at 90° angles one from the other in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction (see Fig. 1/a and Fig.4/a), with the distance between the individual prongs being set according to requirements, and the height (of the four prongs) also being variable depending on the required use.
• SHEET 1/5 SHEET 1/5
• the frontal reception is determined by the N and E transducers, where the N transducer is externally positioned on the left side and is always pointing in one direction, defined as Front-Left; on the other, right-hand side, the E transducer undertakes the same ftmction, and is always defined as Front-Right; the W transducer, defined as Rear-Left, is always electrically paired with the N transducer, whilst the S transducer, defined as Rear-Right, is always electrically paired with the E transducer;
• Fig 1/a shows a simplified configuration of a first type of this resonator device
• Figs 1/b, 1/c, 2/a, 2/b, 3/a and 3/b show the electric and electronic circuits for the configuration illustrated in Fig. 1/a.
• SHEET 2/5 In this second configuration the frontal reception is determined by the E and N transducers, where the N transducer is internally positioned on the right side and is always pointing in one direction, defined as Front-Left; on the other, left-hand side, the E transducer undertakes the same function, and is always defined as Front-Right; the W transducer, defined as Rear-Left, is always electrically paired with the N transducer, whilst the S transducer, defined as Rear-Right, is always electrically paired with the E transducer;
• Fig 4/a shows a simple configuration of a second type of this resonator device (where the left tuning forks of Fig. 4/a correspond to the right tuning forks in Fig. 1/a and obviously the right tuning fork in Fig.
• Figs. 4/b, Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 show the electric and electronic circuits referred to, in the simplified model illustrated in Fig. 4/a; Fig. 6 shows an example of the use of two Integrated Circuits that can also be contained in one Chip.
• SHEET 3/5 shows the electric and electronic circuits referred to, in the simplified model illustrated in Fig. 4/a; Fig. 6 shows an example of the use of two Integrated Circuits that can also be contained in one Chip.
• the frontal reception is determined by the N and E transducers, where the N transducer is externally positioned on the left side and is always pointing in one direction, defined as Front- Left; on the other, right-hand side, the E transducer undertakes the same function, and is always defined as Front-Right; the W transducer, defined as Rear-Left, is always electrically paired with the N transducer, whilst the S transducer, defmed as Rear-Right, is always electrically paired with the E transducer, with the fact that the N and S left hand side transducers are very close to one another as are the E and W transducers on the right hand side;
• Fig. 7/a shows an example of a configuration of a third type of this resonator device viewed from above;
• Fig 7/b shows two examples of electronic circuits for the third type of production model in Fig. 7/a;
• Fig 8 shows in an enlarged form the exact matching for every single frontal membrane or diaphragm located in the capsules of the four transducers in respect of the simplified form in Fig. 7/a (highlighting their perfect vertical axis correction for centring the four frontal receiving membranes).
• the frontal reception is determined by the N and E transducers, where the N transducer is positioned on the left side and is always pointing in one direction, defined as Front-Left; on the other, right-hand side, the E transducer undertakes the same function, and is always defined as Front- Right;
• the W transducer defined as Rear-Left
• the S transducer defined as Rear-Right
• the E transducer is always electrically paired with the E transducer, with the fact that the N and S left hand side transducers are on the same resonating/vibrating prong as are the E and W transducers on the right hand side;
• FIG. 9/a shows a configuration of a fourth type of resonator device with the three extremely simplified views of two prongs of the tuning forks shortened in height (viewed from above in Fig. 9/a, from the front in Fig. 9/d and 9/e, and from the side in Fig. 9/b and 9/c);
• Fig. 10 and Fig. 11 show two opposite electronic circuits for the same type of simplified configuration in the three views from 9/a to 9/e.
• SHEET 5/5
• Fig. 12 shows in a simplified form the angular collocation on the azimuthal and zenithal axis for two transducers inserted on the top of the two prongs specifically designed to intercept sample signals also with only one left or right tuning-fork (Fig. 12 only shows the left channel from the example in Fig. 1/a) as an example of a fifth production model for the investigation and analysis of materials and fluids or the control of environmental parameters, and also used to locate the exact position and identify the shape and structure of specific objects.
• Fig 13 specifically concerns an application of this system that can be used for recording and reproducing sonic waves, retaining at all times a tridimensional reproduction of sounds that is always compatible with the binaural human perception, through two speakers (or a series of speakers);
• Fig. 14 shows the detail of two transducer emitters of ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic waves and vibrations with the drawing of the paths taken by the sounds emitted by these (for use in industrial and pharmaceutical applications, but above all in the electromedical field for investigating and analysing); also using this resonator device as a transducer and amplifier of sampled sound waves in a tridimensional form that can then be directed and concentrated in an internal point of the human body according to the required use.
• Fig 15/a and Fig. 15/b both show a view from above of an audio headphone system and the same system viewed from the rear, with the tridimensional extension of the sounds received being highlighted (where in-head localization of a sound is a disturbance that has been eliminated but can also be produced as one of many possible effects).
• the resonator device and its electronic circuits for 3-D detection and receiving of ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic waves, even of very low amplitude and frequency, in the atmosphere and in fluids, and suitable for use in cybernetics and laboratory uses, in the form of a slender transducer system of sound waves that can be recorded, amplified, directed and concentrated in tridimensional form, according to the required use in accordance with the present invention is characterized by the fact that it includes two pairs of transducers (the N, W pair corresponding to a Left-type human ear, and operates best with sounds from an anticlockwise direction, whilst the E, S pair corresponding to a Right-type human ear that, being specular to the other, operates best with sounds from a clockwise direction) appropriately mounted and spatially adjusted on corresponding and appropriate slender support structures like the prongs of two tuning-forks placed side-by- side with resonating masses that
• the electronic circuits that are a very important part of this device require optimum shielding, in view of the fact that the device itself does not have the ground as its sole point of reference. The shorter the electrical pathways to reach the outlets, the greater will be the quality of the signal obtained.
• the standards for achieving a good shielding are well known and the means for producing these require the use of, for example, silver or gold plated leads and wires or those that have excellent quality characteristics.
• the electrical connection between two pairs of capsules or transducers in particular, and all those that go to make up the transducer system, and the carrying structure with the prongs for capturing sonic waves and vibrations and the tridimensional amplification systems are aligned symmetrically one from the other, with the two left side transducers (together with their electrical/electronic circuits, prongs and all other parts) always mirroring those on the right.
• the configurations of the system are determined by recalling the characteristics that exist between the external and internal human ear where the actual auditory canal or 'meatus' that connects the eardrum to the outer ear has an average length of 27 mm. and therefore if it is to operate precisely as an open organ pipe, its lowest resonating frequency in air would be: c
• T B 314.366 • 10- 6 sec (Formula 04) R
• T R period corresponding to the resonant frequency subsequently the maximum separation distance ( CJMAX ) between the two transducers that form any of the device's pairs (for example N-W for the left hand pair, E-S for the right hand pair as in Fig. 1/a, Sheet 1/5) has to be obtained.
• CJMAX maximum separation distance
• d MiN 2.14 cm (Formula 06) so that, for frequencies capable of being perceived by the human ear, the separation distance between the two transducers of a single pair will range from 2.1 cm (but this lower value may be halved for particular types of applications) and 10.8 cm, and can be produced from a single pair (i.e.
• N- W type corresponding to a Left-type human ear, that operates best with sounds from an anticlockwise direction
• E-S type corresponding to a Right-type human ear, that being specular to the other, operates best with sounds from a clockwise direction
• N - E - ⁇ ® d MAX corresponding to 54 cm
• the device in accordance with the present invention can also usefully be deployed as a detector of geo-electrical and gravitational signals in a liquid, air or gaseous environment, in as much as the device detects amplitude and frequency variations in the electric potential between two condensers (also having identical values) at a constant charge when the membrane or diaphragm of one of the transducers moves with respect the other (even in the absence of the effect of jittering on air particles or movement of water molecules).
• electrical signals are always present at 20°C because they originate from thermal jittering (Brownian motion). Therefore, in order to obtain reliable results it will be necessary to bring the device to an extremely low temperature that is as near as possible to absolute zero.
• the frequencies to be taken as a point of reference range from less than 1 Hz up to a maximum of several KHz and these electrical signals are sent mainly to detection and measuring devices.
• This device is even capable of recognising the elevation of sounds with respect to a zenithal plane, which means that it can intercept sounds within an ideally spherical system.
• the pair of left (hand) transducers (L) is the one having a common ⁇ 45° pointing exactly in a leftwards direction, whilst the other pair (R) mirrors it exactly.
• the distance between N-W will be approximately the same as that between E-S whilst the distance between W-S will be greater than that between N-W (or E-S). It follows therefore that in order to achieve an anticlockwise revolution starting from North, will mean passing through W (-90° from N), then S (-180° from N), then finally through S (-270° from N), eventually returning to N.
• an internal preamplifier is envisaged; it is mounted in the vicinity of the backplate, it will function as an impedance adaptor.
• these pressure sensitive microphones requiring voltage gain will have FET (Field Effect Transistors) internally with an "n" type channel (n-channel) commonly referred to as N-FET, and consequently in this case the Drain contact at the output from the N-FET will correspond with the positive of the microphone cartridge, whilst he Source contact will correspond to the negative.
• transistors that use Josephson junctions can be used which will improve the sensitivity for amplitude and frequency detection of sonic waves and of other types of signals.
• Fig. 2/a and Fig. 2/b (Sheet 1/5) shows the same circuit as in Fig 1/b and in Fig. 1/c with the addition of a condenser at the "W" and “S” terminals, a variable resistor at the "N” and “E” terminals, and in which these resistors (R) and the negative contacts of the microphones connected to ground determine the frontal pick up of these transducers.
• Metallized polycarbonate type capacitors should preferably be used, i.e. a
• variable resistor (R) is designed to calibrate and centre the frontality of each channel.
• a preamplification and/or amplification device that will require its own power supply is also envisaged.
• For non-tridimensional operations it is possible to use unified power supply systems or one low voltage feeder per channel.
• the investigation and analysis of materials and fluids or the control of environmental parameters (geophysical measurements) may also require the use of computers. It is possible in Real-Time to compare the signals received (with or without amplification) with sampling signals taken as a reference.
• the E-S and N- W transducers are facing in such a way as to capture sounds originating from within the system, and this is achieved by connecting the E-S pair to the L Channel, in fact present a common ⁇ 45° facing rightwards, and it is the opposite for the N-W pair, in this way creating a system that is particularly suited for highlighting and amplifying sounds that have been picked up and intercepted originating from positions that are at a particularly close range, in which (Fig. 5, Sheet 2/5) the variable resistors (R) also determine the frontal pick up of the E and N transducers.
• the overall result is a sophisticated system for recording samples of pure sound that is capable, even in the absence of any type of electronic amplification system, of capturing and sampling sounds of a very low amplitude and frequency also for electromedical applications or for use in the study of sonic propagations in fluids or physical phenomena.
• the four transducers are arranged in such a way that they can ideally perform one complete anticlockwise rotation starting from S, and in 90° steps, passing first through E, then N and finally through W, returning to S (in four precise steps).
• the four (two plus two) transducers in Fig. 4/a (Sheet 2/5) are still paired with a shared positive, and the E and N transducers that have the negative contact to ground (which is the principle factor that determines the frontality for this type of electronic circuit), are intended for frontal pick up (Sheet 2/5, Fig. 41b).
• the circuit shown in Figs. 1/b, 1/c, and 4/b also envisages two variable resistors (connected at the te ⁇ ninals of the transducer E and N in Figs. 2/a, 2/b, and 5) suitable for adjusting the centring of the system's frontality.
• the device can also operate without any type of internal power supply system and so is therefore adaptable for use with even the smallest and lightest of portable systems that use plug-in power transducers. It can also be used as a measuring instrument even when it is connected to an audio recording device (plug-in power circuits on Sheet 2/5, Fig. 5).
• a circuit such as that shown in Fig. 5 envisages a preamplification system with four separate low voltage power supply apparatuses and with separate low voltage feeders from each of the amplifiers, where it is also possible to use special types of Integrated Circuits specifically designed for this transducer system (Sheet 2/5, Fig. 6).
• the N, W, E and S transducers are arranged as follows: the left (L) hand pair consisting ofthe N and W transducers is place almost so that it superimposes the pair consisting of the E and S transducers, moving Hie N transducer nearer to the S transducer and the E closer to the W, retaining the initial direction of all of the transducers, whilst reducing the overall size of the device, thanks to the drawing closer together of the two support bases or the use of one common base having four prongs.
• the left (L) hand pair consisting ofthe N and W transducers is place almost so that it superimposes the pair consisting of the E and S transducers, moving Hie N transducer nearer to the S transducer and the E closer to the W, retaining the initial direction of all of the transducers, whilst reducing the overall size of the device, thanks to the drawing closer together of the two support bases or the use of one common base having four prongs.
• Fig. 9/a the basic version of the electronic circuit is that shown in Figs. 2/a, 2/b and Figs. 3/a, 3/b (Sheet 1/5).
• This fourth configuration derives directly from Fig. 7/a (Sheet 3/5).
• the electronic circuit is illustrated in Fig. 10 and can be easily changed over in the circuit shown in Fig.
• the invention concerns a device for locating, intercepting, investigating and analysing materials, including biological (and their properties), the capturing and amplifying ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic waves, the detection of the minutest of movements of masses, even microscopic, and for the picking up of vibrations even of very low amplitude and frequency, in the atmosphere, surrounded by gas, or immersed in water or other types of liquid. It can operate across a wide temperate span, starting at approximately absolute zero, right through to conditions of extreme heat.
• This special system of sound transducers makes it possible to recognise and analyse objects through one or two transmitters or beacons also placed precisely opposite one another in relation to the fact that this resonator device presents many similarities with the operating principles of a diapason.
• It is capable of receiving one or more external signals containing ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves for detecting, investigating or analysing materials and their properties and for other industrial applications (also using one channel when binaural human perception of sounds is not necessary) and is particularly suited for use in the electromedical field.
• Figure 12 furthermore represents an example, that is an explanation that is in no way restrictive, of a large number of possible uses for the device and its associated system, in accordance with the present invention, with the drawing of the pair of N-W transducers (already shown in Fig. 1/a, Sheet 1/5) that shows how the tridimensional ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic pick up requires that the front part of a capsule that makes up every different type of transducer for this resonator device does not correspond to the frontal zone of the space to picked up and investigated.
• This resonator device and its associated systems also makes it possible to eliminate the proportionality that exists between measured sound intensity and the distance from the sound source. It can therefore take as points of reference the specific positive and negative amplitude peaks of a precise wavelength with respect to its point of origin.
• Fig. 14 it is possible to see an adaptation of the device for use in electromedical practices, where the objective is that of a direct action on the human body by concentrating certain types of sounds directly on specifically identified parts of it.
• transducers that include flat acoustic pads that can also be applied to the human body to which they will adliere througli the use of appropriate adhesive creams or gels.
• This type of application could also result in the use of disposable type transducers, with self-adhesive discs, (in this case having a small maximum diameter of 5 or 6 cm) whilst the capsules for transmitting ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic waves in this example in Fig.
• ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic treatment and therapy on the body and the brain for physiology and psychology, for generating vibrations of cancer cells to be treated i a post operative phase, and in all those instances where sound waves can advantageously destroy the structure of the cytoskeleton of the diseased cells, leaving the sound ones intact, it will be necessary to carry out specific types of protocols for programming both the recording and emission of this type of sound, as well as specific signals to samples, so as to arrange waves at the precise points of concentration at certain frequencies, with the possibility of controlling and adjusting exactly both the concentration of the sound waves and the power used during each and every specific treatment.
• transducers employed for picking up or reproducing ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic waves and vibrations can be of any type, shape or size, as long as they are sensitive to air particles in the atmosphere or any type of gas or liquid mixture in which they may be placed or immersed. It is also possible to use transducers capable of operating under extreme temperatures conditions, both high/hot as well as low/cold, also in the presence of water vapour, dust, magnetic fields, radioactivity or in the presence of extreme levels of humidity, with pressure levels that differ greatly from that of our own atmosphere, without going beyond the protective remit of this patent, as described, illustrated and claimed further on in this document by the specified aims.

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