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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:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerd Wessels, Erlangen, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128 / ; 128804 ; 606128 ;
Abstract
A sound generator for treating life forms with focused acoustical waves, characterized by an electrical drivable sound source, focusing arrangement for the acoustical waves coming from the sound source and an electrical generator arrangement for driving the sound source. The generator arrangement includes at least two different generators, which are connectible to the sound source by a switch arrangement and which will drive the sound source for generating different types of acoustical waves, for example shock waves and a continuous sound or acoustical wave. The sound source may be composed of a single transducer or a plurality of transducers.