ULTRASONIC SENSOR

• US 20130038174A1
• Filed: 08/06/2012
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Boum Seock, Park, Eun Tae
• Application Number:
  US13/567,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20130038174A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/327
• CPC Class Codes: G01H 11/08 using piezoelectric devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 30/302 Sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 30/88 Mounts; Supports; Enclosures; Casings

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an ultrasonic sensor including: a case including an inner space formed therein and including an electrode layer formed on an inner side wall surface thereof; a piezoelectric element seated on the electrode layer on a lower surface of the case, configured in a stack type, and including anode and cathode terminals formed on an outer peripheral surface thereof; a sound absorbing material fixed to an upper portion of the piezoelectric element; and first and second lead wires led from the outside of the case and electrically connected to the electrode layer formed on the inner side wall surface of the case.

Claims

1. An ultrasonic sensor comprising:

a case including an inner space formed therein and including an electrode layer formed on an inner side wall surface thereof;

a piezoelectric element seated on the electrode layer on a lower surface of the case, configured in a stack type, and including anode and cathode terminals formed on an outer peripheral surface thereof;

a sound absorbing material fixed to an upper portion of the piezoelectric element; and

first and second lead wires led from the outside of the case and electrically connected to the electrode layer formed on the inner side wall surface of the case.

2. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 1, further comprising a molding material injected and cured into an inner portion of the case to thereby fix the sound absorbing material and the substrate.

3. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 1, wherein the case is made of a conductive material or a non-conductive material.

4. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 3, wherein when the case is made of the conductive material, an insulating layer is first formed on the inner side wall surface of the case and the electrode layer is then formed on the insulating layer.

5. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 3, wherein when the case is made of the non-conductive material, the electrode layer is formed directly on the inner side wall surface of the case.

6. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 4, wherein the electrode layer is formed by any one application method of a plating method and a coating method.

7. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 5, wherein the electrode layer is formed by any one application method of a plating method and a coating method.

8. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 4, wherein the case is made of an aluminum material, and the insulating layer is formed on the inner side wall surface of the case by performing anodizing thereon.

9. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 4, wherein the electrode layer is short circuited on the bottom surface of the case to thereby be divided into anode and cathode electrode layers to which each of the anode and cathode terminals of the piezoelectric element is connected.

10. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 5, wherein the electrode layer is short circuited on the bottom surface of the case to thereby be divided into anode and cathode electrode layers to which each of the anode and cathode terminals of the piezoelectric element is connected.

11. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 1, wherein the piezoelectric element is configured in the stack type and is stacked as even number layers.

12. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 1, wherein the piezoelectric element is closely adhered and coupled to the case through a non-conductive adhesive.

13. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 12, wherein the conductive adhesive is applied to portions at which the anode and cathode terminals of the piezoelectric element are connected to the electrode layer.

14. The ultrasonic sensor according to claim 12, wherein the case includes protrusion parts formed at portions at which it contacts the anode and cathode terminals of the piezoelectric element.