Magnetostrictive transducer
AssigneeValleylab, Inc.
InventorsAlan Broadwin, Leonard M. Emery
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Abstract
A magnetostrictive transducer comprising a plurality of elongated strips of magnetostrictive material, each strip having a proximal end, a distal end and a substantially V-shaped cross section wherein each arm of the V is formed by a longitudinal length of the strip, each strip being attached to an adjacent strip at both the proximal end and the distal end to form and integral substantially rigid column having a central axis with fins extending radially relative to said axis; and an ultrasonic resonant vibrator including such a transducer.
Claims5
A magnetostrictive transducer comprising a plurality of elongated strips of magnetostrictive material, each of said strips having a proximal end, a distal end and a substantially V-shaped cross section wherein each arm of the V-shaped cross section is formed by the longitudinal length of each of said strips, each arm of each of said strips being attached along the radial length of each arm to each arm of each adjacent one of said strips only at both the proximal end and the distal end to form an integral substantially rigid column having a central axis with fins extending radially relative to said axis.
An ultrasonic resonant vibrator which comprises an ultrasonic transducer, a surgical tool and a connecting portion which connects said transducer to said tool, wherein said transducer is a magnetostrictive transducer comprising a plurality of elongated strips of magnetostrictive material, each of said strips having a proximal end, a distal end and a substantially V-shaped cross section wherein each arm of the V-shaped cross section is formed by the longitudinal length of each of said strips, each arm of each one of said strips being attached along the radial length of each arm to each arm of each adjacent one of said strips only at both the proximal end and the distal end to form an integral substantially rigid column having a central axis with fins extending radially relative to said axis.
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