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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:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
May. 06, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Xiaocong Guo, Woodinville, WA (US);
Thomas G. Houck, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Iselin, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 4/108 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 4/108 ;
Abstract
An ultrasound transducer array ( ) in which the piezoelectric layer ( ) and the matching layer(s) ( ) have different sub-dicing. In one embodiment, the piezoelectric layer ( ) is diced only once and the matching layer(s) ( ) is diced more than once. A resulting transducer shows improved bandwidth, crosstalk and noise performance.