Acoustic device and method for amplifying and imprinting information on an interrogating signal

US11630204B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ocean Space Acoustics AS · NO

Inventors

• Odd Trandem · Trondheim, NO
• Tone Berg · Trondheim, NO

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 9, 2020
• Grant date: Apr 18, 2023
• Expiry date: Sep 9, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S15/32
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An acoustic transponder provides information related to the transponder when the transponder is receiving an acoustic interrogating signal. The transponder includes a power supply, an electronic circuit connected to the power supply, and one or more transducers receiving and emitting the acoustic signal. The electronic circuit includes a sequence generator. The transponder further includes an amplification and modulation unit, an extraction filter, and a suppression filter. The extraction filter is adapted to extract the received acoustic interrogating signal and suppress other signals prior to being input to the amplification and modulation unit which are configured to modulate the received acoustic signal according to a sequence generated by the sequence generator and to amplify the modulated signal. The suppression filter is adapted to suppress the received acoustic interrogating signal from the amplified and modulated signal. The amplified modulated signal is transferred through the one or more transducers of the transponder and/or through other transducer(s).