Air Ultrasonic Ceramic Transducers Application Note

The technical notes section is designed to provide a brief overview of the ultrasonic principles important to transducer application and design.

Air ultrasonic ceramic transducers application note.

Figure 6 shows the c scan of a carbon carbon break disk and figure 7 shows the c scan of solar honeycomb panel. In the past systems issued warnings to drivers so that vehicles could avoid colliding with obstacles such as walls and other vehicles but now adoption and use in automated parking systems that control the steering is increasing. Advanced definitions and formulas 3. It is the combination of specially designed transducers with the proper driver receiver instrumentation that has made air coupled ultrasonic inspection a valuable new.

The transducer face must be made to couple to the solid material type for direct transducer to solid contact. Design characteristics of transducers 4. Ultrasonic sensors emit ultrasonic waves and a receiver detects waves reflected from obstacles to confirm the presence of objects and measure to distance to obstacles. The purpose of this application note is to aid the user in the selection and application of the ultrasonic ceramic transducers.

Basic ultrasonic principles 2. Use two transducers one to continuously generate the ultrasonic echo and the other to continuously capture the difference in return echo zero crossing frequency doppler shift. The ultrasonic transducer emits an ultrasonic wave pulse see figure 1. Once the pulse is emitted the transducer becomes quite in order to receive object echoe s.

All these examples were scanned in through transmission with 400 khz air coupled toneburst method. Capacitance at 1khz 20 250st 3000 pf. Ultrasonic testing involves frequencies beyond the upper limit of human hearing. 0db re 0 0002μbar per 10vrms at 30cm 112db min.

Ultrasonic sensors emit ultrasonic waves in the air that reflect off of objects. When the wave pulse reaches an objec t the reflected wave called an echo is bounced back to the transducer. The general transducer design features a piezo ceramic disc bender that is resonant at a nominal frequency of 20 60 khz and radiates or receives ultrasonic energy. Sound waves are all around us as mechanical vibrations carried by a medium such as air or water.

Ti top device pick. Receiving sensitivity at 25 0khz 0db 1 volt μbar 62db min. Selection and use of ultrasonic ceramic transducers the purpose of this application note is to aid th e user in the selection and application of the ultrasonic ceramic transducers. This technology is used for detection of objects in burglar alarms and automatic doors as well as for range measurement in automotive parking assistance systems.

The technical notes are organized in the following sections. Air ultrasonic ceramic transducers 250st r160 specification 250st160 transmitter 250sr160 receiver center frequency 25 0 1 0khz bandwidth 6db 2 0khz transmitting sound pressure level at 25 0khz. They are distinguished from the piezo ceramic.