112 results about "Elastic wave propagation" patented technology

The invention provides an apparatus and method for stimulating a borehole of a well. The invention provides an apparatus that generates low-frequency seismic type elastic waves that propagate to the geologic formation and in order to enhance the movement of fluids in the geologic formation toward a well. The apparatus may operate automatically driven by a power source that may be located on the ground surface. The regime of operation may be determined by user input. Operation of the apparatus may carried out while production of a natural resource is ongoing.

A quadplexer includes a first filter and a second filter having a pass band frequency that is higher than a pass band frequency of the first filter. The first filter includes series resonators disposed on a first path and parallel resonators disposed on a path that connects the first path and a ground to each other. A direction that connects ends of a plurality of electrode fingers defining each resonator crosses an elastic wave propagation direction at a predetermined angle. The series resonator nearest to a common terminal does not include first electrode fingers, and the other series resonators include the first electrode fingers.

A vibratory sensor is fabricated as a three-dimensional batch-micromachined shell adapted to vibrate and support elastic wave propagation and wave precession in the shell or membrane and at least one driving electrode and preferably a plurality of driving electrodes directly or indirectly coupled to the shell to excite and sustain the elastic waves in the shell. The pattern of elastic waves is determined by the configuration of the driving electrode(s). At least one sensing electrode and preferably a plurality of sensing electrodes are provided to detect the precession of the elastic wave pattern in the shell. The rotation of the shell induces precession of the elastic wave pattern in the shell which is usable to measure the rotation angle or rate of the vibratory sensor.

The invention belongs to the field of exploration earth physics and specifically relates to an elastic vector reverse time migration imaging method. According to the invention, multi-component seismic data is used as input, an elastic wave propagation operator is utilized to carry out wave field prolongation, an elastic vector seismic wave field is constructed; and a decoupling prolongation equation method is utilized to obtain longitudinal and transverse wave fields of decoupling; vector points of the longitudinal and transverse wave fields with seismic source illumination compensation are utilized to construct elastic wave cross-correlation imaging conditions, and a multi-component seismic data elastic vector reverse time migration imaging result is obtained; and low-frequency noise suppression is carried out on the imaging result, and a final elastic vector reverse time migration imaging result is obtained. The elastic vector reverse time migration imaging method solves the scalar imaging problem of the longitudinal and transverse wave fields, and the imaging precision of elastic reverse time migration under a complex construction is improved.

The invention relates to a piezoelectric thin film, a piezoelectrics and manufacturing method thereof, a piezoelectrics harmonic oscillator, a actuator element and a phsical sensor. A piezoelectric thin film of the present invention includes an aluminum nitride thin film that contains scandium. A content ratio of scandium in the aluminum nitride thin film is 0.5 atom % to 50 atom % on the assumption that a total amount of the number of scandium atoms and the number of aluminum atoms is 100 atom %. According to this arrangement, the piezoelectric thin film of the present invention can improve a piezoelectric response while keeping characteristics of elastic wave propagation speed, Q value, and frequency-temperature coefficient that the aluminum nitride thin film has.

A filter device includes a longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave filter that includes IDT electrodes including low acoustic velocity regions in outer side portions of center regions of the IDT electrodes and high acoustic velocity regions in outer side portions of the low acoustic velocity regions in a direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to an elastic wave propagation direction, and defines and functions as a first bandpass filter, and elastic wave resonators that are electrically connected to the longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave filter.

A method and apparatus for estimating a porosity and a saturation in a subsurface reservoir. The method includes determining a plurality of mathematical relationships relating a plurality of fundamental physical parameters that govern elastic wave propagation in the subsurface reservoir to the porosity and the saturation in the subsurface reservoir, forward modeling a plurality of seismic attributes using the mathematical relationships to derive a plurality of conditional probability density functions for the seismic attributes, applying a Bayesian inversion to the conditional probability density functions for the seismic attributes to derive a joint probability density function for the porosity and the saturation in the subsurface reservoir, and integrating the joint probability density function for the porosity and the saturation to derive a probability density function for the porosity and a probability density function for the saturation.

An elastic wave device includes an IDT provided on a piezoelectric substrate. The IDT includes edge areas in which an elastic wave propagation velocity is slower than an elastic wave propagation velocity in a center area of an electrode finger intersecting region. The edge areas are provided on both sides of the center area in an intersecting width direction. The IDT includes a first section where the propagation velocity in the center area is relatively fast and a second section where the propagation velocity in the center area is relatively slow in the elastic wave propagation direction. In accordance with the propagation velocities in the center areas of the first and second sections, the widths and propagation velocities in the edge areas of the first and second sections excite a piston mode.

A longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter includes a low acoustic velocity film and a piezoelectric film stacked over a high acoustic velocity component in which a bulk wave propagates at an acoustic velocity higher than an acoustic velocity of an elastic wave that propagates in the piezoelectric film. IDT electrodes are provided on one surface of the piezoelectric film. The longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter uses a SH wave. At least one of the IDT electrodes has a duty factor that is adjusted over an entire length of the one of the IDT electrodes in the direction of elastic wave propagation to suppress a Rayleigh wave spurious response.

The invention relates to an elastography control method. The method comprises: obtaining an ultrasonic image corresponding to a to-be-detected material; Performing image segmentation on the ultrasonicimage to obtain a plurality of image units; Acquiring an imaging area of a target tissue in the ultrasonic image according to the plurality of image units; If the imaging area of the target tissue issmaller than a preset area threshold value, generating first warning information, Wherein the first warning information is used for indicating to change the position of the probe or the position of the focus. The elastic imaging is carried out by adopting the mode, so that the to-be-measured material meets the rigid requirement of uniformity, and the influence of heterogeneity and material boundary on elastic wave propagation during measurement is avoided, therefore, the image quality of elastic imaging is improved, and the measured data is more accurate. The invention further relates to an elastic imaging control device, computer equipment, a computer readable storage medium and an elastic imaging system.

A seismic wave source and sensing system coupled to the surface of an elastic wave propagation medium has a seismic wave source transducer having a preferred axis of vibration oriented horizontally on the surface of the elastic wave propagation medium. A seismic wave sensing transducer has a preferred axis of vibration response oriented horizontally on the surface of said elastic wave propagation medium such that said sensing transducer is capable of detecting dynamic particle motions and displacements of SH waves. An arrangement of the source and sensing transducers is provided on the surface of the elastic wave propagation medium. A recording system capable of acquiring and storing reflected SH wave signals detected by the sensing transducer, wherein the recorded signals represent reflections from contrasting physical properties within the elastic wave propagation medium to provide preferential detection of elongate subsurface targets such as utility pipes, conduits, and other similar object.

A ladder filter including a series arm resonator and a parallel arm resonator disposed on the same common piezoelectric substrate achieves improved miniaturization. The ladder filter includes series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators, which include elastic wave resonators, and are disposed on the same common piezoelectric substrate, at least one parallel arm resonator of the series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonators includes a first resonator and a second resonator electrically connected in parallel to each other, and the first resonator and the second resonator are arranged in parallel or substantially in parallel in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an elastic wave propagation direction, on one side outside one series arm resonator of remaining resonators in the elastic wave propagation direction thereof.

An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate including an IDT electrode provided on one main surface. In the elastic wave device, a center region positioned in a central portion in a direction perpendicular to an elastic wave propagation direction, first and second low acoustic velocity regions positioned outside of the center region, and first and second high acoustic velocity regions positioned outside of the first and the second low acoustic velocity regions in plan view are provided. A groove portion overlaps with one of the first electrode finger and the second electrode finger in plan view in a portion located in the first and second low acoustic velocity regions on the main surface. An acoustic velocity adjusting layer is provided in the groove portion.

The invention discloses a nonuniform-pore rock and a method and device for determining the bulk content of the solid organic matter of the nonuniform-pore rock. A method for determining the bulk modulus of the nonuniform-pore rock is included: rock physical parameters of a background phase pore medium and a dopant pore medium in the nonuniform-pore rock are determined; and the bulk modulus of the nonuniform-pore rock is calculated according to the rock physical parameters of the background phase pore medium and the dopant pore medium. A method for determining bulk content of the solid organic matter in the nonuniform-pore rock is also included: the bulk modulus of the nonuniform-pore rock is determined according to the abovementioned method; the longitudinal wave velocity of the nonuniform-pore rock is calculated; and inversion of the bulk content of the solid organic matter in the nonuniform-pore rock is carried out according to the bulk modulus of the nonuniform-pore rock using difference between the elastic wave propagation velocity and the longitudinal wave velocity as an objective function. The method provided by the invention can accurately and reliably calculate the bulk modulus of the nonuniform-pore rock and the bulk content of the solid organic matter in the nonuniform-pre rock.