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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Timothy G. Dietz, Terrace Park, OH (US);
Foster B. Stulen, Mason, OH (US);
William A. Olson, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William Dannaher, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Willis, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Sora Rhee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Juergen Burger, Ipsach, CH;
Philippe Margairaz, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH;
Robert Lockhart, Lausanne, CH;
Franz Friedrich, The Hague, NL;
Danik Brand, Savagnier, CH;
Herbert Keppner, Colombier, CH;
Jean-Paul Sandoz, Cormondreche, CH;
ETHICON LLC, Guaynabo, PR (US);
Abstract
Ultrasound surgical apparatus are disclosed, including: medical ultrasound handpieces with proximally mounted ultrasound radiators configured to create a distally-focused beam of ultrasound energy, in combination with distal guide members for control of focal point depth; medical ultrasound handpieces with proximally mounted ultrasound radiators configured to create a distally-focused beam of ultrasound energy, in combination with distal rolling members for manipulability and control of focal point depth; medical ultrasound handpiece assemblies with coupled end effectors providing a probe with a probe dilation region configured to have an average outside diameter that is equal to or greater than the average outside diameter of a probe tip and neck; as well as junctions to an ultrasonically inactive probe sheath; medical ultrasound handpiece assemblies with coupled end effectors having positionable, ultrasonically inactive probe sheath ends slidably operable to both cover and expose at least a probe tip; and ultrasound transducer cores including a transducer structure affixed to a longitudinally elongated, generally planar, single crystal or polycrystalline material waveguide.