Ultrasound probe
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsRika TASHIRO, Shinsuke NOGUCHI, Tomoki INOUE
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Abstract
Provided is a wireless-connection ultrasound probe that can easily grasp an operation state. A housing includes a head portion that accommodates a transducer array, and a grip portion that is connected to the head portion and that is gripped by a user, a protrusion for indicating an orientation of an ultrasound probe is disposed on an outer side surface of the head portion, a light-emitting unit is disposed on an outer side surface of the grip portion on the same side as the outer side surface of the head portion on which the protrusion is disposed, and a light emission controller controls the light-emitting unit to perform light emission in a way in accordance with an operation state of the ultrasound probe.
Claims20
An ultrasound probe as a wireless-connection ultrasound probe, the ultrasound probe comprising:
- a transducer array;
- a light-emitting unit;
- a light emission controller that controls light emission performed by the light-emitting unit;
- a battery that supplies power to the light-emitting unit and the light emission controller;
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- a housing that accommodates the transducer array, the light emission controller, and the battery,
- wherein the housing includes a head portion that accommodates the transducer array, and a grip portion that is connected to the head portion and that is gripped by a user,
- a protrusion for indicating an orientation of the ultrasound probe is disposed on an outer side surface of the head portion,
- the light-emitting unit is disposed on an outer side surface of the grip portion on the same side as the outer side surface of the head portion on which the protrusion is disposed, and
- the light emission controller controls the light-emitting unit to perform the light emission in a way in accordance with an operation state of the ultrasound probe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.