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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. 21, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
12866101 ;
Abstract
A memory for temporarily storing a transmitting signal is provided in association with each channel i.e., each transducer of a probe, a transmitting signal for transmitting an ultrasonic wave of a desired waveform is formed through a computer processing, and the thus formed transmitting signal is stored in each memory. Transmitting signals are sent simultaneously to individual channels from individual memories. This ensures that a transmitting signal of a desired waveform can be applied to each channel and the transmission of an ultrasonic wave can be controlled desirably.