8275 results about "Transducer" patented technology

Strategies for managing an “always on” solution for volumes with enhanced interactive haptic feedback and its implications are addressed. Ultrasound transducer arrays may be mounted on a person (such as on a head mounted display or other wearable accessory). This array may utilize some form of 6 degree-of-freedom tracking for both the body and hands of the user. The arrays coordinate to project focused acoustic pressure at specific locations on moving hands such that a touch sensation is simulated. Using wearable microphones, the ultrasonic signal reflected and transmitted into the body can be used for hand and gesture tracking.

An aerosol generation device includes a circuit or microcontroller for automatically detecting and adjusting vibration frequency of an electronic transducer to a determined resonance frequency that changes during operation of the device whereby the circuit or microcontroller provides a plurality of tuning signal waves at each of a plurality of time intervals during operation of the electronic transducer from comparison of the current measured for each signal wave during each time interval.

The invention discloses a sound production device and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of electroacoustic transduction, a vibrating diaphragm assembly of the sound production device comprises a first vibrating diaphragm, a second vibrating diaphragm and a vibrating plate, the first vibrating diaphragm and the second vibrating diaphragm are arranged at an interval along a first direction and are respectively connected with two ends of a voice coil along the first direction, and the vibrating plate is located at the inner side of the voice coil and is connected with the first direction. The vibrating plate has magnetic conductivity, an edge magnetic part of the magnetic circuit system is arranged between the first vibrating diaphragm and the second vibrating diaphragm and is located on the outer side of the voice coil, two center magnets of a center magnetic part are located on the two opposite sides of the vibrating plate, the two center magnets are magnetized in the first direction, and the magnetizing directions are opposite; the sounding device forms a first cavity and a second cavity on two sides of the vibrating plate, and is provided with a first sounding hole and a second sounding hole which are respectively communicated with the first cavity and the second cavity, and the two central magnets are respectively exposed in the first cavity and the second cavity. According to the sound production device, the BL value is effectively increased, the acoustic performance is improved, and the sound leakage problem of a far field can be reduced.

The invention discloses a sound production device, a sound production module and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of electroacoustic transduction, a vibration plate of a vibration system of the sound production device comprises a first plate part and a second plate part which are located on different horizontal planes, the top of a voice coil is connected with the first plate part, and the second plate part is located on the inner side of the voice coil; a center magnetic part of the magnetic circuit system comprises a first center magnet and a second center magnet which are located on the two opposite sides of the second plate part, the first center magnet is close to the top of the voice coil, and the second center magnet is close to the bottom of the voice coil. The first center magnet and the second center magnet are magnetized in the first direction and are opposite in magnetizing direction, and the magnetic energy product of the first center magnet is larger than that of the second center magnet. According to the sound production device, the thinning design can be realized, the BL value is effectively improved, the magnetic lines are distributed more uniformly, the BLx curve is flatter, and thus the distortion is reduced.

Various implementations include audio devices and methods for noise reduction control in wearable audio devices and / or vehicle audio systems. Certain implementations include a non-occluding wearable audio device having: at least one electro-acoustic transducer; at least one microphone; and a control system coupled with the at least one electro-acoustic transducer and the at least one microphone, the control system programmed to: adjust an active noise reduction (ANR) setting for audio output to the at least one electro-acoustic transducer in response to detecting use of the non-occluding wearable audio device in a vehicle.

Various implementations include a method of training a road noise cancelation (RNC) system for a vehicle, including: providing inputs to RNC system, the inputs obtained from: a set of ear-mounted microphones on a user, at least one transducer, an accelerometer, a set of cabin microphones in the vehicle, and a controller area network (CAN) bus, the inputs from the set of ear-mounted microphones on the user approximating a signal detected by the ears of the user; adapting a set of parameters in the RNC system defining an estimated signal detected at respective ears of the user based on the inputs; and generating at least one of the following for input during an operating mode of the RNC system: estimated ear microphone signals based on the adapted set of parameters, or a set of projection filters for use in determining an estimated ear signal at the respective ears of the user.

The invention provides a gas ultrasonic transducer fast matching method, device and equipment and a storage medium, original measurement data such as flight time are obtained by deploying an ultrasonic transducer in a gas ultrasonic flowmeter in a gas conveying pipeline, and multi-dimensional data acquisition is carried out in combination with other sensor parameters. Wavelet noise reduction and dynamic time warping processing are carried out on collected signals, signal quality and time sequence consistency are improved, time domain, frequency domain, environment and statistical features are extracted, and multi-dimensional feature vectors are formed. Modeling is carried out through a time sequence feature branch and an environment feature branch, weighted fusion is carried out by adopting an attention mechanism, and the recognition capability of the model on key features is enhanced. A machine learning model is trained based on fusion features, a multi-objective loss function and a data enhancement strategy are adopted, the prediction precision and generalization ability of the model are improved, and a compensation value is output to calibrate the original traffic in real time. According to the method, the accuracy and stability of gas flow measurement in a complex environment are effectively improved, and the method has a good engineering application prospect.

A hearing system comprises a hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid or a headset, configured to be worn by a user. The hearing device comprises at least one input transducer for providing at least one electric input signal representative of sound in the environment of the hearing device, wherein said at least one electric input signal comprises a target signal component assumed to be of current interest to the user, and a noise component. The hearing device further comprises a noise control system configured to provide an estimate of said target signal component and an estimate of said noise component and to apply a statistical structure to said noise component to thereby provide a modified noise component comprising said statistical structure; and to determine a modified estimate of said target signal component in dependence of said modified noise component. Thereby an improved segregation of sound sources may be provided.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for assessment of microstructural defects in a large structure. Third order elastic constants engender nonlinear excitation of acoustic modes particularly at points of local stiffness changes or stress concentration such as ends of microcracks. A broadband multimode acoustic signal is transmitted through an interrogation region from a first transducer, whereby a second transducer receives an acoustic signal containing linear and nonlinear components. Linear terms are canceled, and a magnitude of the nonlinear acoustic response is measured using time-resolved spectral analysis, to determine a coefficient for acoustic nonlinearity of the interrogation region that serves as a qualitative or quantitative representation of microcrack damage. Broadband signals avoid mode-specific effects such as shadowing or phase mismatch. Damage location can be identified by region or time-of-flight. Portable or dedicated embodiments can be deployed on a wide range of structures of arbitrary shape.

The invention relates to an ultrasonic flow metering device and a metering method thereof, and relates to the field of ultrasonic measuring devices. According to the metering device, through a cross-correlation operation circuit, a microcontroller, a double-threshold comparator, a peak detector, a gain adjustment circuit and a head wave threshold adjustment circuit, self-adaptive processing and adjustment of echo signals and head wave thresholds are achieved, and the accuracy and reliability of flow metering are improved. The metering method adopts an adaptive adjustment strategy of echo signal amplifier gain based on an output signal of an echo signal peak detection circuit, and a head wave threshold adaptive adjustment strategy based on a correlation operation value of echo signal sampling data and pre-stored reference wave data. According to the scheme, the stability of the echo signal and the rationality of the head wave threshold value are guaranteed, the method has adaptability to echo contour feature changes caused by transducer aging or contamination, and then the reliability of the flow metering process is guaranteed.

The invention discloses an ultrasonic transducer characteristic parameter test system, which belongs to the technical field of ultrasonic detection and comprises an excitation signal generation module, an impedance matching adjustment module, a resonance characteristic extraction module, a signal acquisition and processing module, a temperature control loading module, a physical vibration isolation module and a frequency spectrum calibration module. The excitation signal generation module is combined with an off-chip frequency locking feedback loop through an on-chip oscillator to generate a multi-frequency-point sweep frequency pulse array, the multi-frequency-point sweep frequency pulse array is connected to the resonance characteristic extraction module after passing through the impedance matching adjustment module, the multi-frequency-point sweep frequency pulse array and the frequency spectrum calibration module construct a bidirectional feedback path and share harmonic node synchronous calibration logic, and coupling offset compensation is achieved; the frequency spectrum calibration module performs bidirectional real-time error correction on the excitation output frequency and the resonance input phase; and the transducer is arranged in the thermal convection temperature equalizing cabin of the temperature control loading module and is overlapped with the physical vibration isolation module. The method has the advantages that high-precision, low-interference and full-frequency-domain dynamic testing of characteristic parameters of the ultrasonic transducer is achieved, and testing stability is improved.

Acoustic inspection systems and methods are described herein useful to determining microstructural characteristics, such as microtexture regions (MTRs), of a material sample. In some embodiments, a method of determining a material characteristic of a material sample includes transmitting acoustic waves from transducer having a concave face that includes one or more piezoelectric elements through a coupling medium and to a surface of a material sample to produce surface acoustic waves along a portion of a surface of the material sample. The one or more piezoelectric elements of the concave face may operate as at least one of an acoustic transmitter or an acoustic receiver. The method also includes receiving the surface acoustic waves reflected from the surface of the material sample at the concave face. The method then includes determining at least one material characteristic of the material sample based on a property of the surface acoustic waves.

The invention relates to the technical field of fluid measurement, in particular to a multimode signal fusion and self-adaptive processing ultrasonic flowmeter and a measuring method. The multimode signal fusion and self-adaptive processing ultrasonic flowmeter comprises an ultrasonic transducer, a signal generation driving module, a signal receiving and conditioning module, a control module, a signal processing module, a signal quality evaluation module and a sound velocity calculation and compensation module. According to the method, the time difference method and Doppler method signals are fused, the self-adaptive processing strategy is adopted to improve the measurement precision of the low-flow-velocity fluid and the impurity-containing fluid, the measurement precision of the low-flow-velocity fluid can be remarkably improved, the adaptability to complex fluid is enhanced, the overall measurement reliability is improved, the Doppler method precision is optimized, and the intelligent degree is high.

The main object of the invention is an antenna module for an acoustic point defence system (SAD) and an acoustic system comprising said module. The antenna module comprises at least one array of electroacoustic transmitting transducers (TX) and at least one array of electroacoustic receiving transducers (RX). The arrays of transmitting transducers and the arrays receiving transducers have the characteristic of being housed in a watertight container adapted to be submerged in water when the module is in operation, for example by means of a hoist or winch device (SMMR - Launching and Recovery System). The container has watertight accesses, for example via watertight connectors, for at least one cable for a power supply signal, connected or connectable with a power supply unit external to the container, and for at least one cable for a data signal, connected or connectable to a remote control unit adapted to send commands and receive target detection states and / or signals. The antenna module comprises a local control and calculation unit housed inside the container, which local control and calculation unit is equipped with an input for the power supply signal and a port for the data signal, and is interfaced with the arrays of transducers for controlling the signal transmitted by the arrays of transmitting transducers and processing the signals received by the arrays of receiving transducers on the basis of commands received by the data port.

Various reconfigurable phononic devices, including phase shifters, mirrors, Mach Zehnder interferometers, memories, and transducers for use in both classical and quantum computing systems are disclosed. The individual phononic devices may be combined in various configurations to implement desired, more complex functionality. The phononic devices may be coupled together to implement the desired functionality using phononic waveguides. The phononic devices include one or more phase shifters that are operationally based on either hyperelasticity or a moving boundary effect.

An internal solitary wave (ISW) early warning method for an offshore platform based on a baroclinic mode includes the following steps: S1: providing a hydrophone and a bottom-founded transmitting transducer in a sea area of an offshore platform, and acquiring an actually measured sound pressure; S2: solving a hydrodynamic equation to obtain a baroclinic mode of the sea area of the offshore platform; S3: constructing a seawater sound velocity equation according to the baroclinic mode; S4: transforming the seawater sound velocity equation to obtain a relational expression between an amplitude of the baroclinic mode and a seawater sound velocity; S5: solving, according to the actually measured sound pressure, and the relational expression between the amplitude of the baroclinic mode and the seawater sound velocity, the amplitude of the baroclinic mode with a genetic algorithm (GA); and S6: performing monitoring and early warning on an ISW.

The invention relates to the technical field of metal smelting, and provides an electrolytic refining device which comprises an anode assembly, a cathode assembly and an electrolytic bath, the cathode assembly comprises a cathode structure, the cathode structure comprises an ultrasonic transducer and a cathode head, the cathode head is connected with the ultrasonic transducer, and the ultrasonic transducer converts ultrasonic electric signals into mechanical vibration; the electrolytic bath is used for containing electrolyte, and at least part of the anode assembly and at least part of the cathode head are arranged in the electrolytic bath. The ultrasonic transducer drives the cathode head to vibrate, so that dendritic crystals gathered on the surface of the cathode head fall off, dendritic crystal accumulation on the surface of the cathode head is reduced, the surface of the cathode head keeps active, the service life of the cathode structure is prolonged, the electrolytic refining reaction rate and stability are improved, the electrolytic refining reaction can be continuously and uniformly carried out, and energy consumption in the electrolytic process is reduced. The maintenance cost and the production downtime are reduced, and the current efficiency and the collection rate of target metal are improved.

The invention discloses a transcranial ultrasonic multi-frequency acoustical holographic lens design method and system. The method comprises the following steps: setting a plurality of different focus points; using a k-wave toolbox in Matlab, respectively setting a plurality of different focus points as sound sources by using a time reversal method, respectively adopting a plurality of driving frequencies to carry out simulation experiments, capturing the phase of the plane where the ultrasonic transducer is placed, and obtaining a plurality of acoustic holograms; according to the method, effective information of a plurality of acoustical holograms is extracted and integrated into a multi-frequency acoustical hologram, and after a transcranial multi-frequency acoustical hologram is obtained, phase information of the multi-frequency acoustical hologram is extracted and converted into the height of each pixel of the acoustical hologram lens. Multi-frequency transcranial focusing based on the multi-frequency acoustical holographic lens is realized by extracting effective information of a plurality of acoustical holographic lenses which are focused at different positions and have different working frequencies and integrating the effective information into one multi-frequency acoustical holographic lens, and corresponding focuses are reconstructed on a focusing plane according to different driving frequencies, so that flexibility in transcranial focusing is realized, and the focusing precision is improved. The application potential is improved.

An organ surface ultrasound probe includes a head, a pump and a controller. The head may include a transducer, a housing supporting the transducer and a flexible bladder containing an acoustic coupling medium for positioning between the transducer and the exterior surface of the organ. The controller is to output control signals causing the pump to inflate the bladder to different inflation states.

The invention provides an underwater ultrasonic Doppler real-time analysis method and device based on a digital transducer, and relates to the technical field of data analys.The method comprises the steps that 1, multiple beams of directional ultrasonic waves are emitted into drilling fluid through a digital transducer array on the outer wall of a marine riser, echo signals reflected by gas-liquid two-phase flow are received, and the digital transducer array is used for receiving the echo signals; performing real-time digital conversion on the echo signal to generate an original digital signal containing phase and amplitude information; 2, Doppler frequency shift feature extraction is conducted on the original digital signals, and the real-time movement speed and direction of bubbles in the drilling fluid are determined by calculating the frequency deviation of reflected ultrasonic waves and transmitted ultrasonic waves. Through the digital transducer array and the ultrasonic Doppler technology, accurate measurement of motion parameters of bubbles in drilling fluid, real-time calculation of local gas content and early warning and grading response of gas cut are achieved, and the safety and the intelligent level of drilling operation are improved.

The invention discloses a slurry flow velocity measurement method, device and system for a slurry pump, and relates to the technical field of slurry flow velocity measurement, and the method comprises the steps: employing an ultrasonic transducer to transmit an ultrasonic signal to a slurry pipeline and receive a reflection signal, and obtaining ultrasonic propagation data; constructing a slurry flow velocity profile model according to the ultrasonic propagation data, and calculating slurry flow velocity and solid phase concentration distribution based on the slurry flow velocity profile model; and based on the slurry flow velocity and the solid-phase concentration distribution, rheological correction is conducted by combining the slurry flow state, and the actual slurry flow velocity of the slurry pump is obtained. According to the method, the non-Newtonian characteristic and the solid-phase migration effect of the slurry are considered in the measurement process, a rheological parameter dynamic correction mechanism based on the Reynolds number is established, and the measurement precision under the working conditions of high-sand-content and high-density slurry is improved compared with a traditional method.

Blood vessel recognition and needle guidance systems, components, and methods thereof. A console can be configured to initiate a target recognition process for recognizing an anatomical target, such as a blood vessel, of a patient and a needle guidance process for guiding insertion of a needle into the anatomical target using ultrasound-imaging data received by the console. The system can perform target identification based on machine learning models which can be trained to recognize targets based on the ultrasound image. The ultrasound probe can be configured to provide to the console electrical signals corresponding to the ultrasound-imaging data. The ultrasound probe can include an array of transducers and, optionally, an array of magnetic sensors respectively configured to convert reflected ultrasound signals from the patient and magnetic signals from the needle, when magnetized, into the electrical signals.

To provide a convergence ultrasonic treatment device and a method thereof.SOLUTION: There are provided a convergence ultrasonic treatment device and a method thereof. The convergence ultrasonic treatment device includes: a convergence ultrasonic transducer for outputting a convergence ultrasonic signal including a first frequency signal range for a thermal effect and a second frequency signal range for a mechanical effect to a tissue; a cavitation sensor for detecting a cavitation signal by a cavitation phenomenon generated in the tissue by the convergence ultrasonic signal; and a processor for analyzing a cavitation detection value in the first frequency signal range and a cavitation detection value in the second frequency signal range detected through the cavitation sensor at the time of primary output of the convergence ultrasonic signal to a first region, determining whether to move to a new second region and output the convergence ultrasonic signal, or to perform secondary output of the convergence ultrasonic signal in the first region by a result of the analysis, and adjusting at least one of the output time and the frequency of the convergence ultrasonic signal when performing the secondary output of the convergence ultrasonic signal in the first region.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A fastener and a system, apparatus, and method for monitoring a fastener are described. The fastener includes a head portion, a shank portion, a transponder, and a compression spring, wherein the head portion includes a mounting portion, and wherein the transponder is disposed in the mounting portion of the head portion. The transponder is arranged to monitor the shank portion, and includes an ultrasonic sensor and a signal processing circuit. The ultrasonic sensor is affixed to a transducer hosting surface, and is urged against the transducer hosting surface by placement of the printed circuit board in the head portion with the compression spring intervening therebetween. The ultrasonic sensor communicates with the signal processing circuit via the compression spring. The signal processing circuit captures a signal from the ultrasonic sensor and transforms the signal into a parameter corresponding to a tensile force being exerted by the fastener.

A wellbore gas kick monitoring apparatus comprises: an ultrasonic transducer (200) used for, when in an emitting mode, emitting pulse ultrasonic waves to an annulus (100) in a wellbore, and used for, when in a receiving mode, receiving echo signals generated by the pulse ultrasonic waves reflected by a moving scatterer in a set position in the annulus (100); a data processing apparatus (300) used for processing the echo signals to obtain the Doppler amplitude thereof; and a determining module (400) used for determining, according to the Doppler amplitude of the echo signals, whether a gas kick has occurred in the wellbore. The present gas kick monitoring apparatus has good axial resolution, measures fluid at designated positions to extract fluid information, and when a gas kick occurs, conducts monitoring and issues early warnings in a timely manner, and prolongs well control time. Also provided is a wellbore gas kick monitoring method.

In one example, a method comprises using a first transducer, emitting a first acoustic signal representing a first code. The method further comprises using the first transducer, receiving a second acoustic signal, and converting the second acoustic signal to a sensor signal. The method further comprises computing a time-of-flight for the second acoustic signal based on a time difference between when the first transducer emits the first acoustic signal and when the first transducer receives the second acoustic signal. The method further comprises responsive to the correlation result indicating that the third acoustic signal is a reflection of a third acoustic signal emitted by a second transducer: determining a delay time between when the first transducer emits the first acoustic signal and when the second transducer emits the third acoustic signal; adjusting the time-of-flight based on the delay time; and providing a distance measurement based on the adjusted time-of-flight.

The invention discloses a sound production device, a sound production module and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of electroacoustic transduction, and the sound production device comprises a first sound production monomer and a second sound production monomer which are arranged side by side along a first direction, the vibrating plates of the first sound production monomer and the second sound production monomer comprise first plate parts and second plate parts which are located on different horizontal planes in the second direction, the first plate parts are connected with the top of the voice coil and the vibrating diaphragm respectively, and the outer peripheries of the second plate parts abut against the inner peripheral wall of the voice coil; the central magnetic parts of the first sound production single body and the second sound production single body comprise a first central magnet and a second central magnet which are positioned on two opposite sides of the second plate part; the first central magnet and the second central magnet are magnetized along a second direction and are opposite in magnetizing direction; the sound production device further comprises a first magnet yoke and a second magnet yoke which are oppositely arranged in the second direction, and the outer edges of the first magnet yoke and the second magnet yoke are connected in a welded mode. According to the sound production device, the BL value is improved, and distortion is reduced.

The invention relates to the technical field of detection, and provides a thick plate titanium alloy welding seam self-adaptive sensitivity ultrasonic detection method which comprises the following steps: designing a combined ultrasonic transducer, designing a detection system, testing and calibrating, testing a signal-to-noise ratio, scanning and evaluating. The detection system comprises a multi-channel ultrasonic detection collector, upper computer software and a combined ultrasonic transducer. Compared with the prior art, the self-adaptive sensitivity ultrasonic detection method for the thick plate titanium alloy welding seam has the advantages that the combined ultrasonic transducer is designed, thick plate titanium alloy welding seam detection and material acoustic performance evaluation are synchronously carried out, and the sound attenuation coefficient is fed back to a welding seam detection channel in real time by using upper computer software; and the detection sensitivity is adjusted in real time, so that the problem of inaccurate defect quantification caused by sensitivity difference due to non-uniform materials is solved, and accurate evaluation on the welding defects is realized.

The invention discloses a sound production device and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of electroacoustic transduction, a vibrating diaphragm assembly of a vibrating system of the sound production device comprises a first vibrating diaphragm, a second vibrating diaphragm and a vibrating plate, the first vibrating diaphragm and the second vibrating diaphragm are arranged at an interval along a first direction and are respectively connected with two ends of a voice coil along the first direction, and the vibrating plate is located at the inner side of the voice coil and is connected with the first direction. An edge magnetic part of the magnetic circuit system is arranged between the first vibrating diaphragm and the second vibrating diaphragm and located on the outer side of the voice coil, two center magnets of a center magnetic part are located on the two sides of the vibrating plate in the first direction, the two center magnets are magnetized in the first direction, and the magnetizing directions are opposite; the sounding device forms a first cavity and a second cavity on two sides of the vibrating plate, and is provided with a first sounding hole and a second sounding hole which are respectively communicated with the first cavity and the second cavity, and the two central magnets are respectively exposed in the first cavity and the second cavity. According to the sound production device, the BL value is effectively increased, the acoustic performance is improved, and the sound leakage problem of a far field can be reduced.

Method and system for characterizing a medium by ultrasound. A method for the ultrasonic characterization of a medium comprising a step of generating a series of incident ultrasonic waves, a step of generating an experimental reflection matrix Rui(t) defined between the input emission basis (i) and an output reception basis (u), a step of determining a de-scanned reflection matrix R' of the medium between a virtual input transducer calculated from an input focus of the experimental reflection matrix and a virtual output transducer calculated from an output focus of the experimental reflection matrix, these virtual transducers being at the same depth. The method includes a step of extracting an optimal positional deviation or an optimal speed of sound model from this focal spot image. Figure for the abstract: FIGURE 5