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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2019
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Willem-Jan Arend De Wijs, Oss, NL;
Cornelis Gerardus Visser, Eindhoven, NL;
Hendrik Roelof Stapert, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannes Wilhelmus Weekamp, Beek en Donk, NL;
Gerardus Franciscus Cornelis Maria Lijten, Veldhoven, NL;
Eric Franciscus Johannes Claessens, Helmond, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An interventional device includes an elongate shaft and a transducer strip. The transducer strip includes a first edge and an opposing second edge. The first edge and the second edge are separated by a width dimension, and the first edge and the second edge each extend along a length direction of the transducer strip. The transducer strip also includes a piezoelectric transducer that extends along a transducer direction that forms an acute angle with respect to the length direction. The transducer strip is wrapped in the form of a spiral around the elongate shaft of the interventional device such that the piezoelectric transducer forms a band around the elongate shaft. The width dimension is defined such that the adjacent first and second edges of consecutive turns of the spiral abut or overlap one another.