US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Aug. 5 for "Ultrasonic sensor with reverberant vibration suppression circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,440, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Ultrasonic sensor with reverberant vibration suppression circuit" was invented by Yasuhide Takase (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic sensor is provided in which, after output of an excitation signal from a transmission circuit to a drive electrode is stopped, when a suppression control signal subjected to signal amplification by a band variable calculation amplifier is supplied from a reverberant vibration suppression circuit to the drive electrode, reverberant vibration of a piezoelectric body is reduced or prevented in ...