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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2016
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yusaku Katsube, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuo Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuyuki Okuma, Tokyo, JP;
Yohei Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Takahide Terada, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Kajiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Takuma Nishimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Yutaka Igarashi, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound diagnosis device includes: an ultrasound probe which transmits an ultrasound wave toward a examinee and receives a reflected wave from the examinee; and a main device which controls the transmitting and receiving of the ultrasound waves from the ultrasound probe and is operated to receive a receiving signal obtained by receiving the reflected wave from the examinee by the ultrasound probe, to generate an ultrasound image of the examinee, and to display the ultrasound image on a display screen, wherein the ultrasound probe includes a plurality of subarrays having a plurality of element circuits transmitting and receiving ultrasound signals and a plurality of reference voltage sources, and the plurality of subarrays and the plurality of reference voltage sources have a one-to-one correspondence.