Patent ID: 9246077
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: B06B,G01S,H01L

Claim Text:
1. An ultrasonic transducer device comprising: a substrate; an ultrasonic transducer element array disposed on the substrate, the ultrasonic transducer element array having a 1 a first signal terminal connected with a control section configured to perform at least one of receiving and transmitting of signals; and a second signal terminal connected with the first signal terminal via the ultrasonic transducer element array, wherein the 1 the 1 the ultrasonic transducer elements electrically connected in series are disposed over the substrate such that the ultrasonic transducer elements electrically connected in series are arranged to line up along a first direction along a surface of the substrate which is perpendicular to a normal direction of the surface of the substrate, each of the ultrasonic transducer elements has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a transducer section disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode in the normal direction of the substrate, with the first electrode, the transducer section and the second electrode being layered with respect to each other in the normal direction of the substrate, and the first electrode of one of an adjacent pair of the ultrasonic transducer elements is formed in a looped shape, and is overlapped with the second electrode of the other one of the adjacent pair of the ultrasonic transducer elements to electrically connect the adjacent pair of the ultrasonic transducer elements relative to each other in series in the first direction which is a scanning direction.