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Electrically coded piezoelectric lock mechanisms are strong, have few moving parts, are resettable, and are relatively unaffected by high magnetic fields. Codes are extremely difficult to circumvent.
Transducer consists of a hybrid thin film and a piezoelectric transistor that acts as a stress-sensitive device with built-in gain. It provides a stress/strain transducer that incorporates a signal amplification stage and sensor in a single package.
Flapper valve using a bimorph piezoelectric ceramic bender converts an electrical input into a pneumatic output signal capable of operating fluidic logic elements in a decoder and display system.
Piezoelectric sensing diaphragm for detection of micrometeorites in space, noting vibration mode and effect of small beads contact time on calibration errors
Piezoelectric effects in ferroelectric ceramics using equivalent circuits and admittance matrices
Piezoelectric pump for supplying fluid at high frequencies to gyroscope fluid suspension system
Stress dynamics of optimum high speed piezoelectric pressure probes utilizing backing rod material
Utilizing arrays of sequentially-excited piezoelectric elements to provide motion in a nonmagnetic motor provide built-in redundancy and long life required for deployment or actuation of devices on spacecraft. Linear-motion motor devices can also be fabricated.
Bimorph strip composed of two layers of poled piezoelectric ceramic material closes and opens valve. Strip performs like capacitator, allowing initial inrush of current when valve is energized and then only small leakage current flows as valve remains energized.
A surface shear force transducer for use in impulse type hypersonic tunnels is described. Sensors are constructed of lead zirconate titanate composition piezoelectric ceramic materials. The diameter of the sensing diaphragm is 0.75 inches and overall transducer dimensions are 1.0 inch diameter and 0.625 inch height. Analysis of the tranducer is made to help design criteria and fabrication techniques. Discussions on design and fabrication techniques are presented as well as performance of transducers delivered.
An oriented piezoelectric film has been incorporated in the insulator region of a silicon insulated-gate field-effect transistor to provide a sensitive high-frequency strain transducer. With this device, strains as low as 10 to the -8th power have been detected, and gauge factors of roughly 7000 have been attained for applied ac strains at 5.6 MHz.
After discussing the principal calibration methods for piezoelectric accelerometers, an experimental setup for accelerometer calibration by the reciprocity method is described It is shown how the use of a lock-in voltmeter eliminates errors due to viscous damping and electrical loading.
The paper presents the results of an experimental evaluation of a new type of piezoelectric ceramic device designed for use as a laser mirror tuner. Thin plates made from various materials were assembled into a circular bimorph configuration and tested for linearity of movement, maximum travel, and resonant frequency for varying conditions of clamping torque and mirror loading values. Most of the devices tested could accept mirror diameters up to approximately 1.3 cm and maintain a resonant frequency above 2 kHz. Typical mirror translation without measurable tilt was plus or minus 20 micrometers or greater for applied voltages of less than plus or minus 300 V.
Special housing couples piezoelectric transducers to nonporous surfaces for ultrasonic or acoustic-emission testing. Device, while providing sound isolation on flat or nonflat surfaces, can be attached and detached quickly. Vacuum sealing mechanism eliminates need for permanent or semipermanent bonds, viscous coupling liquids, weights, magnets, tape, or springs ordinarily used.
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