Patent ID: 9581686
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G01H,G01S

Claim:
1. A silicon-based monolithic integrated sonar array, comprising: a cantilevered sensing array structure, a sound-transparent jacket and a support member, wherein the cantilevered sensing array structure is fixed on the support member and is arranged fixedly within the sound-transparent jacket, the sound-transparent jacket is filled with an insulating dielectric oil, the cantilevered sensing array structure is immersed in the insulating dielectric oil, and the sound-transparent jacket is sealed and rendered to be water-tight as an entity; the cantilevered sensing array structure comprises a plurality of independent array cells; said independent array cell includes a silicon beam, a varistor R 1 at a root part of the silicon beam, a Wheatstone bridge formed by connecting resistors R 2 , R 3 and R 4 at a support base of the array cell, and a plurality of metal wires; wherein the sound-transparent jacket is made of polyurethane sound-transparent material; the insulating dielectric oil is a light wax oil; the varistor R wherein the cantilevered sensing array structure is an SOI silicon chip in which the array cells are formed; a distance between two said independent array cells adjacent to each other is half of a wavelength of a center frequency of signals received thereat; the distance is 5 mm when the beam length of the silicon beam is 400 μm, the width of the silicon beam is 130 μm and the thickness of the silicon beam is 20 μm.