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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:
Apr. 03, 1990
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1286601 ; 73633 ;
Abstract
An ultrasonic probe which scans an ultrasonic beam in a sector area by a mechanical drive is disclosed. The ultrasonic probe essentially has a driving motor, a rotary shaft rotatably supported in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the driving shaft of the driving motor, a rotor shaft rotatably supported in a direction parallel to the direction of the rotary shaft, a rotor mounted on the rotor shaft for carrying ultrasonic transducers, screw gears for transmitting rotation of the motor to the rotary shaft, and a transmitting device for transmitting rotation of the rotary shaft to the rotor.