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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Arthur Glen Buck, Sherwood, OR (US);
Ronald A Olson, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600459 ;
Abstract
An ultrasound imaging probe assembly (1a) has multiple piezoelectric elements (3) producing an array of scanned ultrasound signals and being connected by insulated conductors (4) to an electronic scanner to convert the signals to an image, the insulated conductors (4) are concentric with an inner conductor (8) and a conducting shield (7) to provide an ultrasound transducer assembly (1) of compact size, the insulated conductors are capacitively coupled to the inner conductor (8) and the shield (7), and the shield (7) and the inner conductor (8) are commonned to reference electrical potential.