Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

General Electric Company

Liping Chen

Qiang Yao

Bing Li

Lu Jin

Sheng Xu

Lanping Liu

Gang Liu

Bo Dan

Hongyu Zhao

Kejian Shi

You Chen

Shuxiu Wang

A spherical joint includes a body portion and a blocking portion. The body portion includes a ball portion and a joint portion. The ball portion and the joint portion have an inner surface that links the two portions together in an axial direction and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. The outer surface of the ball portion includes a spherical surface. The body portion further includes a first section and a second section. Each of the first section and the second section intersects with the inner surface and the outer surface such that the two sections together define a gap. The blocking portion is detachably connected to the body portion and shaped to match the gap, so that the blocking portion blocks the gap to form a hollow spherical joint structure. Further disclosed in the present application are a spherical joint assembly and an ultrasonic imaging device.

Spherical joint, spherical joint assembly, and ultrasonic imaging device

Provided in the present application is an ultrasonic probe, including: an ultrasonic transducer configured to send/receive an ultrasonic signal; a housing including a top plate and a side wall that collectively define a cavity with an opening located below the cavity, wherein a top portion of the ultrasonic transducer is configured to be accommodated in the cavity via the opening; and an elastic element accommodated in the cavity, the elastic element being connected to the top portion of the ultrasonic transducer and the top plate of the housing, and the elastic element being configured to provide an elastic force to the ultrasonic transducer to enable part of the ultrasonic transducer to retract and spring back within the cavity. Further provided in the present application are a scanning assembly including the ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic imaging device including the scanning assembly.

Ultrasonic probe, scanning assembly and ultrasonic imaging device

The present invention provides an ultrasonic imaging device, comprising: an imaging assembly, the imaging assembly comprising an ultrasonic transducer for imaging tissue to be imaged; an adjustable arm, wherein one end of the adjustable arm is connected to the imaging assembly; a counterweight, the counterweight being connected to the other end of the adjustable arm through a cable; a frame, the frame being capable of guiding movement when the counterweight and/or adjustable arm moves; and a transmission assembly, the transmission assembly comprising a driving device and a transmission belt, wherein the driving device is connected to the transmission belt, and the transmission belt is connected to the counterweight; the driving device is capable of acting on the counterweight through the transmission belt, so as to adjust pressure applied by the imaging assembly onto the tissue to be imaged. The present invention further provides some imaging methods using the ultrasonic imaging device.

Ultrasonic imaging device and imaging method thereof

An automatic vessel access device based on real time volumetric ultrasound is provided. The automatic vessel access device comprises a probe configured to generate a VOI image of a candidate vessel in a real time volume ultrasound scan mode, a control device coupled to the probe, and at least one motor coupled to the control device. The control device comprises at least one processing module configured to determine at least one control parameter based on the VOI image, and a driver module coupled with the at least one processing module and configured to drive the at least one motor to automatically access the candidate vessel according to the at least one control parameter.

Device, system and method of automatic vessel access based on real time volumetric ultrasound

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