Abstract:
An agitator by vibrations includes an annular resonator to which is applied a vibratory stress by piezoelectric transducers. A preferred stress shape is a bending of the ring perpendicularly to its plane to excite inherent modes at relatively low frequencies. Use of a solid annular transmitter enables the vibrations to be satisfactorily controlled to maintain satisfactory transmission to the sample to be agitated, and to focus them on it. Excitation frequencies are frequencies inherent to the ring or to the tank.
Abstract:
This method for locating at least one touch on a touch-sensitive surface of an object comprises the following steps: monitoring (100) of at least one touch by propagating (102), in the touch-sensitive surface of the object, elastic mechanical waves from at least one transmitting point of the object, and by detecting (104) said elastic mechanical waves in at least one reception point of the object, in order to obtain at least one sensed signal, and locating (200) at least one touch on the touch-sensitive surface of the object by comparing certain spectral characteristics of the sensed signal to a set of reference characteristics. The monitoring step (100) comprises measuring (104, 106) the sensed signal during a time interval (t3 ) starting during a transient phase of the propagation of the transmitted waves, for supplying, to said at least one reception point, information on radiation interfered with by said at least one touch.
Abstract:
A monitoring facility includes at least one acoustic sensor arranged in a monitoring area to convert an acoustic wave picked up following the occurrence of an activity in the monitoring area into an information signal, and a processing device to receive the information signal. Also included is a system for transmitting at least one alarm and a database including, for each one of at least one predetermined reference activity, an occurrence of which is likely to generate acoustic waves in the monitoring area, reference characteristics relating to said predetermined reference activity. The processing device includes an analysis system to analyze the information signal according to reference characteristics of at least one predetermined reference activity of the database, and to activate the system for transmitting at least one alarm according to said analysis. Furthermore, at least one acoustic sensor is included to detect seismic waves propagating in a solid medium.
Abstract:
A system for detecting and locating a disturbance of a medium includes a medium for propagating bulk acoustic waves, a mechanism for emitting bulk acoustic waves in the medium, a mechanism for receiving the bulk acoustic waves after propagation thereof in the medium, configured to supply a reception signal from the acoustic waves received, and a mechanism for detecting and locating the disturbance in the medium from the reception signal. The medium includes a dermis layer of elastic material with a thickness locally deformable by the disturbance.
Abstract:
An interactive panel including a substrate, wherein a seismic wave is intended to propagate, and at least two piezoelectric transduction devices each including two piezoelectric transducers. Each piezoelectric transducer includes two piezoelectric elements each with two surfaces each covered by an electrode. The four electrodes of each piezoelectric transducer are interconnected to supply, when opposing stresses are applied to the piezoelectric elements of the transducer, an electrical measurement signal that depends on the angle between a main plane and an opposite stress-separation plane. Two piezoelectric transducers of a same device have a same central axis and their respective main planes form a non-zero angle thereinbetween. Each piezoelectric transduction device is attached to the substrate such that movement of the substrate during passage of the seismic wave causes stress on the piezoelectric elements, in opposite directions on either side of the stress-separation plane.
Abstract:
For locating a touch on a tactile surface belonging to an object (7), mechanical waves are made to propagate in the object and these mechanical waves are picked up. Certain characteristics of the signal picked up are compared to a library of reference characteristics, and the position of the touch is deduced from this comparison
Abstract:
A system including a mechanism emitting successive acoustic waves in a medium, a mechanism receiving the successive acoustic waves after propagation thereof in the medium, configured to supply a reception signal based on the successive acoustic waves received, and a mechanism detecting and locating disturbance in the medium on the basis of the reception signal. The emitting mechanism is configured such that, amplitude and/or phase spectrum of each acoustic wave having, at a specific frequency at least, an amplitude, or phase, varying in the medium according to a specific spatial distribution of the amplitude, or phase, and the spatial distributions of the amplitude, or phase, of the successive acoustic waves are mutually different.
Abstract:
For locating a touch on a tactile surface belonging to an object, mechanical waves are made to propagate in the object and these mechanical waves are picked up. Certain characteristics of the signal picked up are compared to a library of reference characteristics, and the position of the touch is deduced from this comparison.
Abstract:
An acoustic detector which includes at least one emitter unit with a solid tapered profile spike (C) associated with an element (X) for exciting the spike so as to propagate ultrasound waves in an antisymmetrical propagation mode in the spike. The device also emits waves into a surrounding gas. At least one receive unit includes a tapered profile solid spike associated with the detector for receiving the ultrasound waves.
Abstract:
An acoustic wave detection device including a piezoelectric transducer configured to provide a detection signal; an acoustic resonator having a resonance frequency and including a resonating body having a free surface to be adhered against a substrate in which a seismic acoustic wave, having a frequency spectrum including the resonance frequency of the resonator, is propagated, the seismic acoustic wave causing the acoustic resonator to resonate by the free surface; and a microphone diaphragm having a frequency spectrum including the resonance frequency of the resonator. The diaphragm vibrates by an aerial acoustic wave that causes the acoustic resonator to resonate by the microphone diaphragm. The piezoelectric transducer is attached onto the acoustic resonator to produce a first component of detection signal, when the acoustic resonator resonates by the seismic acoustic wave, and produces a second component of detection signal when the acoustic resonator resonates by the aerial acoustic wave.