Method of manufacturing an ultrasonic probe and the ultrasonic probe and
an ultrasonic imaging apparatus
    1.
    发明授权
    Method of manufacturing an ultrasonic probe and the ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic imaging apparatus 有权
    超声波探头和超声波探头的制造方法以及超声波成像装置

    公开(公告)号:US6095978A

    公开(公告)日:2000-08-01

    申请号:US169827

    申请日:1998-10-10

    CPC classification number: B06B1/0629 G01N29/0609 Y10T29/42

    Abstract: In order to reduce the impedance of an ultrasonic transducer array, an ultrasonic probe is provided in which a plurality of holes 34 are disposed running in the thickness direction of a piezoelectric material plate 32 and electrodes 36 are provided on the internal walls of the holes so as to exploit the ultrasonic vibration of the wall of piezoelectric material between the adjacent holes according to the electromechanical coupling coefficient k.sub.31. An ultrasonic imaging apparatus employing such an ultrasonic probe is also provided.

    Abstract translation: 为了减小超声波换能器阵列的阻抗,提供了一种超声波探头,其中多个孔34沿着压电材料板32的厚度方向设置,电极36设置在孔的内壁上, 根据机电耦合系数k31利用相邻孔之间的压电材料壁的超声波振动。 还提供了采用这种超声波探头的超声波成像装置。

    Ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus
    2.
    发明授权
    Ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus 失效
    超声波成像方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5848968A

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-15

    申请号:US874549

    申请日:1997-06-13

    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus devised to implement contrast imaging of enhanced S/N ratios. The apparatus comprises: an exciting unit for generating ultrasonic waves by stimulating a contrast medium introduced into a target object; a contrast image creating unit for creating a contrast image based on the ultrasonic waves generated through stimulation; an echo generating unit for generating echoes of the ultrasonic waves transmitted into the target object; an echo image creating unit for creating an echo image based on the generated echoes; and a display unit for superimposing the contrast image and the echo image for display.

    Abstract translation: 设计用于实现增强的S / N比的对比度成像的超声成像装置。 该装置包括:激励单元,用于通过刺激引入到目标物体中的造影剂产生超声波; 对比图像生成单元,用于基于通过刺激产生的超声波来创建对比度图像; 回波产生单元,用于产生发射到目标物体中的超声波的回波; 回波图像创建单元,用于基于所生成的回波创建回波图像; 以及用于叠加对比图像和用于显示的回波图像的显示单元。

    Method and apparatus for stereoscopic ultrasonic imaging
    3.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for stereoscopic ultrasonic imaging 失效
    用于立体超声成像的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5823963A

    公开(公告)日:1998-10-20

    申请号:US804440

    申请日:1997-02-21

    CPC classification number: G01S15/8993 A61B8/00 A61B8/483 Y10S128/916

    Abstract: A stereoscopic ultrasonic imaging apparatus for displaying in a short time an ultrasonic image giving a sense of perspective. The apparatus comprises: two two-dimensional ultrasonic receiving element arrays arranged a predetermined distance apart; an orthoscopic image generation unit for generating a plurality of orthoscopic images of an observed surface perpendicularly intersecting an ultrasonic beam applied, the orthoscopic images having a predetermined parallax therebetween and generated on the basis of received ultrasonic data obtained by the element arrays; and a stereoscopic display unit for displaying stereoscopically the orthoscopic images generated by the orthoscopic image generation unit.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于在短时间内显示给出透视感的超声波图像的立体超声波成像装置。 该装置包括:两个布置成预定距离的二维超声波接收元件阵列; 用于产生与施加的超声波束垂直相交的观察表面的多个无畸变图像的无畸变图像生成单元,其中具有预定视差的无畸形图像根据由所述元件阵列获得的接收超声波数据而生成; 以及立体显示单元,其用于立体地显示由所述无畸形图像生成单元生成的所述无畸形图像。

    Ultrasonic pulse doppler apparatus
    4.
    发明授权
    Ultrasonic pulse doppler apparatus 失效
    超声脉冲多普勒仪

    公开(公告)号:US4759373A

    公开(公告)日:1988-07-26

    申请号:US57969

    申请日:1987-05-18

    CPC classification number: G01S15/8979

    Abstract: An ultrasonic pulse Doppler apparatus has: range gate (20) for separately performing range-gating of the respective received ultrasonic echo signals of the oscillation elements of an ultrasonic probe (1) each time the signals are respectively adjusted in correspondence with the direction of a received ultrasonic beam; pulse stretcher filter (21) for extending the duration of the respective plurality of range-gated received signals while storing the energy of the signals; phasing/adding stage (7a) for matching the phases of a plurality of output signals from the pulse stretcher filter and performing addition thereof; detection portion (12) for effecting coherent detection of an output signal from said phasing/adding stage; and Doppler signal generating components (15, 16) for respectively generating Doppler signals on the basis of an output signal from the detection portion.The received echo signal of each of the oscillation elements is range-gated, and the duration of the respective range-gated signals is extended by the pulse stretcher filter. Subsequently, the signals are matched in phase and added. Accordingly, the level of the received signal hardly reaches the limit of the dynamic range of a signal processing circuit employed.

    Ultrasound imaging system
    5.
    发明授权
    Ultrasound imaging system 失效
    超声成像系统

    公开(公告)号:US4463608A

    公开(公告)日:1984-08-07

    申请号:US145852

    申请日:1980-05-01

    CPC classification number: G01S15/8965 G01H3/125

    Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic imaging system for diagnostic use or non-destructive testing. The system comprises a first array of ultrasonic transducers coupled to the object space wherein objects under examination are located or distributed; a second array of ultrasonic transducers coupled to a reconstitution space wherein the acoustic images of the objects are to be replicated; and time inversion means. The time inversion means has a set of waveform memories which first captures the ultrasonic signals from said objects, typically echos produced in response to suitable excitation, via said first array of ultrasonic transducers with suitable amplification and preconditioning as necessary. Then readouts of these signals are provided inversely in time which drive the second array of ultrasonic transducers with said time inverted signals to reproject inversely propagating ultrasonic wavetrains forming replicated acoustic images of the objects. By optically monitoring the ultrasonic energy distribution in said reconstitution space, via an opto-acoustic interaction effect, the system enables the observation of the object images in real time on each complete acquisition of said ultrasonic signal set at the first array of transducers, i.e. one complete picture per each echo sounding, which means in case of a medical diagnostic system of up to several thousand pictures per second.

    Abstract translation: 本发明涉及用于诊断用途或非破坏性测试的超声成像系统。 该系统包括耦合到对象空间的第一超声波换能器阵列,其中检查对象被定位或分布; 耦合到重建空间的第二组超声波换能器,其中将复制对象的声像; 和时间反转装置。 时间反转装置具有一组波形存储器,其首先通过所述第一阵列超声波换能器捕获来自所述物体的超声波信号,所述超声波信号通常响应于合适的激发产生的回波,具有必要的合适的放大和预处理。 然后这些信号的读出与时间相反地提供,其中驱动具有所述时间反转信号的第二阵列的超声波换能器以重新制造形成对象的复制声像的反向传播的超声波波长。 通过光学监测所述重建空间中的超声波能量分布,通过光声相互作用效应,该系统使得能够在第一阵列换能器上对所述超声波信号集进行每次完全采集时实时观察对象图像,即一个 每个回声发声完整的图像,这意味着在医疗诊断系统的情况下,每秒可以有几千张图片。

    Ultrasonic diagnostic method and apparatus
    6.
    发明授权
    Ultrasonic diagnostic method and apparatus 失效
    超声诊断方法及装置

    公开(公告)号:US4319489A

    公开(公告)日:1982-03-16

    申请号:US135157

    申请日:1980-03-28

    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic method and apparatus are provided for probing the condition in a tissue of a living body by projecting an ultrasonic beam onto the living body from a vibrator array transducer probe consisting of a plurality of tiny ultrasonic vibrators. The apparatus executes two scanning actions, of which one is a normal linear scanning that drives the ultrasonic vibrators sequentially in the manner to cause a sequential parallel shift of the ultrasonic beam substantially perpendicular to the vibrator array, and the other of which is an inclined linear scanning that drives the ultrasonic vibrators at individually different timings while sequentially shifting the driven vibrators in the manner to cause sequential parallel shift of the ultrasonic beam having an angle of inclination against the vibrator array. The images obtained through the normal linear scanning and the inclined linear scanning are combined to form a composite high-resolution image.

    Abstract translation: 提供一种超声波诊断方法和装置,用于通过从由多个微小的超声波振动器组成的振动器阵列换能器探针投射超声波束来探测生物体的组织中的状况。 该装置执行两个扫描动作,其中一个是以使得超声波束基本上垂直于振子阵列的顺序平行移动的顺序驱动超声波振动器的正常线性扫描,另一个是倾斜线性 扫描,以单独不同的定时驱动超声波振动器,同时顺序地移动被驱动的振动器,以使超声波束相对于振动器阵列具有倾斜角的顺序平行移动。 通过正常线性扫描和倾斜线性扫描获得的图像被组合以形成复合高分辨率图像。

    Drying furnace and drying method using drying furnace
    7.
    发明授权
    Drying furnace and drying method using drying furnace 有权
    干燥炉和干燥炉采用干燥炉

    公开(公告)号:US09217605B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-22

    申请号:US13130917

    申请日:2009-11-13

    Abstract: A drying furnace including: a heating portion which heats a coating target having been subjected to electrodeposition coating, wherein (i) the heating portion sets an inner furnace temperature of an upstream of the drying furnace to be lower than a temperature at which moisture in electrodeposition paint boils, (ii) the heating portion sets an inner furnace temperature of a downstream of the drying furnace to be higher than or equal to a glass transition point, (iii) the heating portion locally heats a gap position formed at a member bonding portion of the coating target at the upstream of the drying furnace, and (iv) the heating portion sequentially changes a heated portion from an upper side to a lower side of the coating target when the gap position is locally heated.

    Abstract translation: 1.一种干燥炉,其特征在于,具备加热部,其对已经进行了电沉积涂布的被覆物进行加热,其特征在于,(i)所述加热部将所述干燥炉上游的内部炉温设定为低于电沉积中的水分的温度 油漆沸腾,(ii)加热部将干燥炉下游的炉内温度设定为玻璃化转变点以上,(iii)加热部局部加热形成在部件接合部的间隙位置 的干燥炉的上游侧的涂布对象物,以及(iv)当局部加热间隙位置时,加热部分依次将加热部分从涂覆目标的上侧向下侧改变。

    Method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging
    9.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging 失效
    超声成像的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5840033A

    公开(公告)日:1998-11-24

    申请号:US857450

    申请日:1997-05-16

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for ultrasonically producing 3-dimensional images in real time, wherein a device transmits an ultrasonic wave toward a solid bearing angle obtained by dividing into multiple portions a solid bearing angle subtended by a sonic field to be examined, and receives echoes therefrom, with the transmitted waves being sequential and the received echoes being concurrent multiple waves from each small solid angle, and a device for producing the 3-dimensional images by range gating the received echo signals in the depth direction of the sonic field being examined and then producing direct vision images in the direction of the transmitted ultrasonic waves based on the echo signals, wherein the range gated signals are quadrature detected in one embodiment and/or are subjected to 2-dimensional Fourier transformation in another embodiment.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于实时超声波产生三维图像的方法和装置,其中装置将超声波发送到通过将要被检查的声场对向的实心轴承角分成多个部分而获得的实心轴承角,并从其接收回波 发射波是顺序的,并且接收到的回波是来自每个小立体角的并发多个波,以及用于通过范围选择所接收到的回波信号在所检测的声场的深度方向上产生三维图像的装置,然后 基于回波信号在所发送的超声波的方向上产生直接视觉图像,其中在一个实施例中,范围门控信号被正交检测和/或在另一个实施例中进行二维傅里叶变换。

    Ultrasound imaging methods and apparatus
    10.
    发明授权
    Ultrasound imaging methods and apparatus 失效
    超声成像方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5807260A

    公开(公告)日:1998-09-15

    申请号:US872552

    申请日:1997-06-12

    CPC classification number: A61B8/4461 A61B8/12 G01S15/894 G10K11/352

    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a search unit; a hollow guide for stabbing a subject; a manipulating device for protruding the search unit out of the tip of the guide and for moving the search unit along a predetermined orbit; device for transmitting/receiving the ultrasound during the movement by the manipulating means along the orbit; and device for producing an image based on the received echo signal by means of an aperture synthesis technique.

    Abstract translation: 本发明包括:搜索单元; 用于刺伤受试者的空心导板; 操作装置,用于将搜索单元从引导件的尖端突出并用于沿着预定的轨道移动搜索单元; 用于在所述操纵装置沿着所述轨道运动期间发送/接收所述超声波的装置; 以及用于通过孔径合成技术基于接收的回波信号产生图像的装置。

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