B06B 1/0674
And a low impedance backing
Official title: {and a low impedance backing, e.g. air}
B06B1/0674 (And a low impedance backing) appears on 53 US grants and 52 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B06B- Granted patents
- 53
- Published applications
- 52
- Assignees
- 43
- Inventors
- 137
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Anchor configurations for an array of ultrasonic transducers17 Mar 2026US 12,578,825 B2TDK Corporation
- Composite acoustic absorber for ultrasound transducer array12 Aug 2025US 12,383,230 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and method for manufacturing backing material15 Jul 2025US 12,357,271 B2Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Ultrasound probe8 Jul 2025US 12,350,109 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Differential receive at an ultrasonic transducer25 Mar 2025US 12,260,050 B2TDK Corporation
- Low-noise ultrasonic transducer for use in wellbore operations1 Jan 2026US 2026/0003092 A1Halliburton Energy Services.Inc.
- Composite acoustic absorber for ultrasound transducer array4 Sep 2025US 2025/0275752 A1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Ultrasonic probe and method for manufacturing ultrasonic probe22 May 2025US 2025/0169367 A1Cast Co., Ltd.
- Anchor configurations for an array of ultrasonic transducers13 Mar 2025US 2025/0085817 A1TDK Corporation
- Directional properties of ultrasound transducers via biphasic actuation6 Feb 2025US 2025/0046293 A1Novustx Devices Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for detecting blood flow in intravascular ultrasonic imaging289US 5,453,575 AEndosonics Corporation · 1995
- Ultrasound catheter probe179US 5,779,644 AEndosonics Corporation · 1998
- Ultrasound catheter177US 5,368,037 AEndosonics Corporation · 1994
- Ultrasonic transducers161US 6,763,722 B2Transurgical, Inc. · 2004
- Ultrasound transducer assembly122US 6,283,920 B1Endosonics Corporation · 2001