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US 2014/0276069 A1Published application
Ultrasound probe
AssigneeEagIEyeMed
InventorsRavi Amble, Farooq Raza
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Abstract
In one general embodiment, an ultrasound probe includes a housing configured for grasping by a human hand; an array of transducers for transducing sound waves into electrical signals; a circuit board in the housing, the circuit board having a plurality of leads, each of the transducers being coupled to at least an associated one of the leads; processing circuitry in the housing and coupled to the circuit board for processing the electrical signals, or derivatives of the electrical signals, into sonogram data; and an output device for outputting the sonogram data.
Claims20
An ultrasound probe, comprising:
- a housing configured for grasping by a human hand;
- an array of transducers for transducing sound waves into electrical signals;
- a circuit board in the housing, the circuit board having a plurality of leads, each of the transducers being coupled to at least an associated one of the leads;
- processing circuitry in the housing and coupled to the circuit board for processing the electrical signals, or derivatives of the electrical signals, into sonogram data;
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- an output device for outputting the sonogram data.
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An ultrasound probe, comprising:
- a housing configured for grasping by a human hand;
- an array of piezoelectric transducers for generating sound waves and for transducing reflected ones of the sound waves into electrical signals;
- a flexible circuit board in the housing, the circuit board having a plurality of leads, each of the transducers being coupled to at least an associated one of the leads;
- processing circuitry in the housing and coupled to the circuit board for processing the electrical signals, or derivatives of the electrical signals, into sonogram data;
- an output device for outputting the sonogram data, wherein the output device includes a wireless transmitter;
- a battery for powering the processing circuitry;
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- a control on the housing for adjusting at least one of a frequency and depth of the sound waves.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.