Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and circuit for operating electro-acoustic transducers for reception and transmission using ring-down parameters
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Application No.: US17517273Application Date: 2021-11-02
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Publication No.: US11696072B2Publication Date: 2023-07-04
- Inventor: Marco Passoni
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP
- Priority: IT 2020000026663 2020.11.09
- Main IPC: G01H11/08
- IPC: G01H11/08 ; H04R3/04 ; G01H13/00

Abstract:
An electro-acoustical transducer such as a Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers is coupled with an adjustable load circuit having a set of adjustable load parameters including resistance and inductance parameters. Starting from at least one resonance frequency or at least one ring-down parameter of the electro-acoustical transducer a set of model parameters is calculated for a Butterworth-Van Dyke (BVD) model of the electro-acoustical transducer. The BVD model includes an equivalent circuit network having a constant capacitance coupled to a RLC branch and the adjustable load circuit is coupled with the electro-acoustical transducer at an input port of the equivalent circuit network of the model of the electro-acoustical transducer. The adjustable load parameters are adjusted as a function of the set of model parameters calculated for the BVD model of the electro-acoustic transducer to increase the bandwidth or the sensitivity of the electro-acoustic transducer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220150625A1 METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS, AND CORRESPONDING CIRCUIT AND DEVICE Public/Granted day:2022-05-12
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