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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:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2012
Applicants:
Norihiro Yamada, Hino, JP;
Yukihiko Sawada, Yoshikawa, JP;
Tamaki Watanabe, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61H 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/22 (2006.01); A61N 7/00 (2006.01); A61N 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/22012 (2013.01); A61N 7/00 (2013.01); A61N 7/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A treatment apparatus includes an ultrasonic vibration source, an ultrasonic treatment portion which is configured to treat living tissue by ultrasonic vibration transmitted from the ultrasonic vibration source, and a micrograin feeder which is configured to supply liquid containing micrograins to between the ultrasonic treatment portion and the living tissue. Whole micrograins within the micrograin-containing solution has a grain size equal to or smaller than an amplitude of the ultrasonic vibration.