An extensive list of patents has helped make Crest Ultrasonics the world’s largest privately held ultrasonic cleaning company
Our reputation as an industry leader is the result of year after year of patented technological breakthroughs.
While we own many patents, here are the most significant three:
- Ultrasonic Transducer
- Patent Filed: May 9, 1996
- Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
- Overview: In the present invention, the insertion of a resonance enhancing disc made of alumina ceramic is positioned between the base of the generator and the piezo electric material. This provides an increase in intensity of the resonant frequency signals, diminishing periodical shift in frequency and stabilizing piezo electric material temperature.
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- Ultrasonic Processing Method and Apparatus with Multiple Frequency Transducers
- Patent Filed: November 5, 2004
- Prior Publication Data: January 9, 2005
- Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
- Overview: The transducers are arranged in equilateral triangular patterns along diagonal lines on a wall of the tank so that each transducer has an adjacent transducer of a different frequency. Alternatively, the apparatus includes one or more rod transducers having different resonant frequencies so that the apparatus provides a mixture of various frequencies of ultrasonic energy to the tank. Another aspect of the invention involves selecting transducers with different resonant frequencies that are outside an excluded subrange, and powering the transducers by a driving signal that sweeps through the resonant frequencies of the transducers and the excluded subrange.
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- Megasonic Processing Apparatus with Frequency Sweeping of Thickness Mode Transducers
- Patent Filed: October 2, 2009
- Prior Publication Data: January 21, 2010
- Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
- Overview: A megasonic processing apparatus and method has one or more piezoelectric transducers operating in thickness mode at fundamental resonant frequencies of at least 300 kHz. A generator powers the transducers with a variable-frequency driving signal that varies or sweeps throughout a predetermined sweep frequency range. The generator repeatedly vanes or sweeps the frequency of the driving signal through a sweep frequency range that includes the resonant frequencies of all the transducers.
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