Abstract:
A portable electronic device (100) includes a vibrating transducer having a resilient support and a first mass supported by the first resilient support forming a mechanical resonator, and an electrical circuit coupled to the first vibrating transducer to apply a drive signal. A plurality of tactile vibration transducers (130, 140) can work in unison to produce strong tactile stimulus (216, 228, 230).
Abstract:
A vibration source driving device that realizes various vibration functions on portable telephones. The vibration source driving device includes a sound source for generating musical tone signals in response to music data. A vibration source to generate vibration, a driver to drive the vibration and a control circuit are further included such that the vibration source may be driven in synchronization with the rhythm signal within the music data.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention provide a water treatment method and water treatment device capable of automatically tracking the frequency of ultrasonic waves and automatically controlling their amplitude such that optimal cavitation is generated. In one embodiment, a water treatment method of sterilizing water containing microbes comprises supplying ultrasonic vibration to the water to be treated by driving and controlling a transducer of a sterilization cell using a signal; detecting an amplitude of the transducer and a frequency of the signal applied to the transducer; and controlling the amplitude and a vibration frequency of the transducer to target values in accordance with the detected transducer amplitude and the detected signal frequency.
Abstract:
A portable medical diagnostic ultrasound system is provided which includes shielding for electromagnetic interference by forming shielded enclosed compartments around the individual components of the ultrasound system. This compartmentalization of components isolates EMI between the components themselves as well as the outside world. Further, the EMI shielding provides structural rigidity and support for the entire ultrasound system. In another aspect, the EMI shielding provides heat dissipation capability for the internal components of the ultrasound system. The portable medical diagnostic ultrasound system further provides a transducer connector which provides high density interconnects between the transducer and the ultrasound system while providing an ergonomically easy to handle connector. Further, the connector is rugged, providing a high number of connection and disconnection cycles.
Abstract:
The invention utilizes a multiple frequency ultrasound generator driving a multiple frequency harmonic transducer array to improve cleaning and processing effects while eliminating damage to parts being cleaned. An AC switch and circuitry to modify the output of an ultrasound generator in combination with techniques such as random AM and FM signals are used to produce ultrasound waves that have no single frequency components which eliminates exciting parts being cleaned into resonance.
Abstract:
A vibrating alert device not startling the user by its vibration and able to improve the effectiveness of the alert, provided with a vibration strength control circuit becoming active for a duration of an incoming call signal and repeatedly gradually increasing a drive voltage supplied to the vibrating motor in stages from a minimum vibration strength voltage to a maximum vibration strength voltage, the vibration control circuit having a resistance type voltage division circuit which generates different vibration strength voltages from a minimum voltage strength voltage to a maximum voltage strength and a voltage switching circuit for selecting and outputting in a rising order the vibration strength voltages for each constant time.
Abstract:
For the drive excitation, the method for the capacitive drive excitation of oscillators in sensors for the capacitive measurement of force, acceleration and, in particular, rotation rates according to the Coriolis principle, provides according to the invention for the use of high-frequency constant-amplitude pulse packets with no DC component, the width or phase angle of which can be adjusted in order to keep the oscillator speed constant, for the purpose of resetting or correcting tolerances. As an alternative, the method may also be configured in such a way that, in the case of oscillators with pairwise excitation electrodes which are symmetrical with respect to the rotation axis, equal constant-amplitude HF voltages are applied, the frequency of which is chosen to be substantially higher than the natural frequency of the oscillator, in which case a particular resulting force of attraction on the oscillator is brought about by shifting the phase angle between the drive voltages and, in the case of rotation rate sensors working according to the closed-loop principle, system resetting can also be ensured. By virtue of the invention, problems with coupling the excitation signal into the read channel of a micromechanical oscillator system can be brought well under control.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to transducer packages which utilize lenses made of unpoled piezoelectric material or machined metal coupled to an impedance matched backing. The new transducer packages have minimal reverberation which allow for nearer standoff measurements, improved bond measurements, the ability to detect of thinner cement layers behind casing, and provide for better estimations of formation surface texture.
Abstract:
A relatively high voltage is developed across a buzzer by placing a resistance in the discharge path of an buzzer, e.g., by shunting one or more Zener diodes or LEDs across a switching transistor, the switching transistor being connected in series with the buzzer between a voltage potential and ground. Alternatively, the buzzer is shunted with a resistive element, with or without series connected a reversed biased diode. The result is a higher audio output without a corresponding increase in power consumption.
Abstract:
The invention disclosed is an elliptical vibratory apparatus including a first controller which includes at least a first phase shifter, a first high-gain amplifier and a first saturating element; a first power amplifier for amplifying an output of the first controller; a first vibratory exciter receiving an output of the first power amplifier for generating a horizontal vibrational force in a horizontal direction; a horizontal vibrational system of an elliptical vibratory machine receiving said horizontal vibrational force; a vibrational displacement detector for detecting a horizontal displacement of a movable part of the elliptical vibratory machine in the horizontal direction, the output of the vibrational detector being supplied to both the input of the first controller and the input of a second controller; the second controller including at least a second phase shifter, a second high-gain amplifier and a second saturating element; a second power amplifier for amplifying an output of the second controller; a second vibratory exciter receiving an output of the second power amplifier for generating a vertical vibrational force in a vertical direction; a vertical vibrational system of the elliptical vibratory machine receiving the vertical vibrational force; a closed loop being formed by the first controller, the first power amplifier, the first vibratory exciter, the horizontal vibrational system and the vibrational displacement detecting means, the output of the vibrational displacement means being negatively fed-back to the first controller in the closed loop; wherein a shift angle .alpha. of the first phase shifter is so predetermined that there is a phase difference of 180 degrees between the output terminal of the vibrational displacement detector and the input terminal of the first controller, when these terminals are cut off from each other, and a shift angle .beta. of the second phase shifter is so predetermined as to obtain a predetermined phase difference between phase difference between the vibrational displacements of the horizontal and vertical vibrational systems for the optimum condition of the elliptical vibratory machine, the horizontal vibrational system being self-excitedly vibrated at its resonant frequency and the vertical vibrational system being self-excitedly vibrated.