Piezoelectric air transducer for active noise control

Baomin Xu; Qi Ming Zhang; Valery D. Kugel; Leslie Eric Cross

doi:10.1117/12.239042

1 May 1996 Piezoelectric air transducer for active noise control

Baomin Xu, Qi Ming Zhang, Valery D. Kugel, Leslie Eric Cross

Proceedings Volume 2717, Smart Structures and Materials 1996: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.239042
Event: 1996 Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 1996, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A new type of piezoelectric air transducer has been developed for active noise control and other air acoustics applications. The transducer is based on the composite panel structure of a bimorph-based double amplifier, that is, two parallel bimorphs or bimorph arrays with a curved cover plate as an active face attached to the top of the bimorphs. The electro- mechanical and electro-acoustic properties of the double amplifier structure and the transducer are investigated in this paper. The displacement of the cover plate of the double amplifier structure can reach millimeter scale with a relatively low driving voltage, which is more than ten times larger than the tip displacement of bimorphs. The sound pressure level (SPL) of the transducer can be larger than 90 dB (near field) in the frequency range from 50 to 1000 Hz and be larger than 80 dB (far field) from 200 Hz to 1000 Hz, with the largest value more than 130 dB (near field). Because of its light weight and panel structure, it has the potential to be used in active noise control.

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Baomin Xu, Qi Ming Zhang, Valery D. Kugel, and Leslie Eric Cross "Piezoelectric air transducer for active noise control", Proc. SPIE 2717, Smart Structures and Materials 1996: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, (1 May 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.239042

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