Wideband tonpilz transducer with a cavity inside a head mass

A multimode Tonpilz transducer is well-known for providing a wider bandwidth than a single-mode transducer. In this paper, a new structure for the head mass of a multimode Tonpilz transducer was designed to further widen the bandwidth. The mechanical quality factor of a Tonpilz transducer is proportional to the weight of its head mass. In that sense, making the cavity inside the head mass will surely lead to a much lighter head mass, which can lead to a lower mechanical quality factor, thus a wider bandwidth. Through finite element analyses, the effects of the void head mass structure on the transducer performance were analyzed, and the dimension of the cavity to achieve the widest bandwidth was determined within given structural variation ranges. The variation ranges were selected as those in which the coefficient of determination in regression analyses was larger than 0.95 over all the ranges. The structure of a tail mass was also designed using the same method to match the new head mass.