Underwater acoustic transducers and sonar components

Wilcoxon engineers and manufactures underwater acoustic transducers in the US for defense and scientific sonar, with a dedicated design and manufacturing engineering team for marine defense products. Together with sister company Piezo Technologies, which produces hard and soft PZT ceramics including Navy Type formulations, it is vertically integrated from ceramic material to finished transducer. Customers range from prime defense contractors to naval labs and marine research teams.

Key features

• Hydrophones for sonobuoys and towed arrays
• Projector elements for torpedoes
• Tonpilz, segmented ring, compression- and shear-mode stacked transducers for TR modules, countermeasures, submarine acoustics, mine hunting and ACOMMS
• Acoustic sensors for submarine and UUV arrays and sensors for side-scan sonar
• Vector sensors for directionality, detection and passive acoustic surveillance
• Engine-mounted accelerometers for machinery monitoring
• Supply from custom-shaped ceramics to complete build-to-print or build-to-spec transducers

Applications

Sonar arrays for submarines, torpedoes and unmanned underwater or surface vehicles; mine hunting, countermeasures and acoustic communications.