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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
James N Chen, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128660 ; 73644 ;
Abstract
A stand-off device for use with acoustic transducers is described in which a chamber having a diaphragm portion contains liquid, the ratio of the acoustic impedance of said diaphragm to the acoustic impedance of soft body tissue and the ratio of the acoustic impedance of said liquid to the acoustic impedance of said diaphragm being whole numbers or fractions, and said diaphragm being of such thickness that reflections from its diaphragm/body interface, when it is held against the body of a patient, and its liquid/diaphragm interface tends to cancel each other.