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APPLIED ACOUSTICS
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages 223-233Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2018.07.022
Keywords
Stepped-plate transducer; Parametric array source; Directional sound beam; Triple steps
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government (MSIP) [2015R1A2A1A16074937]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2015R1A2A1A16074937] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Parametric array (PA) sources generate a directional sound beam, via the PA phenomenon. Practical PA sources, such as PA loudspeakers, have high power consumption, low sound quality, and high cost. The stepped-plate transducer, which consists of a Langevin transducer, a horn, and a radiating plate with steps, can provide high intensity sound and a highly directional sound beam in the acoustic axis. This study investigated the use of a stepped-plate transducer to make a PA source with high directivity and a wide bandwidth. A stepped-plate transducer that had two different resonance frequencies (f(1) = 77.5 kHz, f(2) = 87.4 kHz) was designed for wide bandwidth, and the three different heights of the steps on the plate (t(s1) = 2.28 mm, t(s2) = 2.14 mm, t(s3) = 2.02 mm) were intended to provide high directivity sound beams. The fabricated stepped-plate transducer demonstrated a 50 +/- 3 dB sound pressure level for the difference frequency wave in the 4-19 kHz frequency range (with equalization), and 4.2-5.1 degrees of HPBW was shown for the highly directional sound beam.
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