Patents by Inventor Frans Josef Maria Frankort

Frans Josef Maria Frankort has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4028566
    Abstract: A device for converting electric into acoustic vibrations and vice versa, provided with a diaphragm, comprising at least one layer of a piezoelectric polymer material, which is polarized in a transverse direction and which at either side is provided with electrodes, the diaphragm being undulated in at least one orthogonal section, whilst each flank of the undulation is polarized in the same direction over its entire width and in the operating condition the direction of the applied electric field relative to the direction of polarization in adjoining flanks are alternately parallel and anti-parallel. Two types of embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Nico Valentinus Franssen, Frans Josef Maria Frankort