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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:
Nov. 18, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 20, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ulrich Schaetzle, Roettenbach, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128660003 ; 128662005 ; 604 22 ; 601-2 ;
Abstract
A source of therapeutic acoustic waves for minimally invasive treatment of internal body regions with the therapeutic acoustic waves has a number of source parts which emit the acoustic waves. In order to be able to apply the source easily in the inside of the body in a simple way, source parts are arranged so as to be foldable in an introduction position giving the source a relatively small cross section as viewed in the introduction direction. After introduction into a patient the source parts are unfolded into a working position.