Control unit for ultrasonic piezoelectric actuators

A device for controlling several ultrasonic piezo-electric drivers driven electronically from a control computer and a source of continuous voltage, incorporates an electronic system for driving some drivers fed by the continuous voltage source and delivers an alternating signal for exciting each driver selected by a controllable switch (S inj), mounted in series with the driver. It also includes a system for short circuiting each selected piezo-electric driver after the stoppage of the excitation signal, destined to dampen the free oscillations of the driver provoking an injection train.