Discontinuous hollow cylindrical transducer

Claim 1

A TRANSDUCER FOR IMMERSION IN A LIQUID MEDIUM FOR TRANSLATING SOUND WAVES IN SAID MEDIUM INTO ELECTRICAL WAVES IN AN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT, AND VICE,VERSA, COMPRISING: A PLURALITY OF AXIALLY ALIGNED, SPACED-APART, ELECTROMECHANICALLY RESPONSIVE, RADIALLY VIBRATILE RINGS AND MEANS ELECTRICALLY COUPLING SAID RINGS TO SAID CIRCUIT FOR VIBRATION IN PHASE WITH EACH OTHER, SAID RINGS FOR VIBRATION IN PHASE WITH EACH OTHER, SAID RINGS POLARIZING MEANS FOR PRODUCING A POLARIZING FLUX IN SAID RINGS COMPRISING AN EVEN NUMBER OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED CONNECTING ELEMENTS EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY BETWEEN EACH PAIR OF ADJACENT RINGS; EACH ELEMENT COMPRISING A PERMANENT MAGNET, AND NEXT ADJACENT ELEMENTS BEING OPPOSITELY POLED WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER; A SET OF WINDINGS INDIVIDUAL TO EACH RING, THE RESPECTIVE WINDINGS ON EACH RING BEING CIRCUMFERENTIALLY LOCATED BETWEEN SAID CONNECTING ELEMENTS WHEREBY EACH WINDING IS ASSOCIATED WITH RING SECTION IN WHICH THE POLARIZING FLU/X IS OF A SINGLE POLARITY; AND MEANS CONNECTING ALL OF SAID WINDINGS IN SAID CIRCUIT IN SUCH POLARITY THAT THE FLUX GENERATED BY EVERY WINDING IN THE RING SECTION IT ENCOMPASSES HAS THE SAME POLARITY RELATIVE TO THE POLARIZING IN THAT SECTION.