ULTRASONIC BLOOD VESSEL INSPECTING APPARATUS
    1.
    发明申请
    ULTRASONIC BLOOD VESSEL INSPECTING APPARATUS 有权
    超声波血管检查装置

    公开(公告)号:US20120116227A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-05-10

    申请号:US13383866

    申请日:2009-07-16

    IPC分类号: A61B8/14

    摘要: An ultrasonic blood vessel inspecting apparatus provided with a longitudinal cross sectional blood vessel image generating portion configured to generate a longitudinal cross sectional image of a blood vessel located below a skin of a live body, on the basis of reflected wave signals of an ultrasonic wave by using an ultrasonic probe placed on the skin of said live body, includes: an index value calculating portion configured to calculate an index value indicative of a degree of clarity of an image which represents an intima-media complex of said blood vessel and which exists within said longitudinal cross sectional image of the blood vessel.

    摘要翻译: 一种超声波血管检查装置,其具有纵剖视血管图像生成部,其构造成基于超声波的反射波信号,生成位于活体皮肤下方的血管的纵截面图像 使用放置在所述活体的皮肤上的超声波探头,包括:指标值计算部,被配置为计算表示代表所述血管的内膜 - 媒体复合体的图像的清晰度的指标值, 所述血管的纵向横截面图像。

    Sensor holding apparatus
    2.
    发明授权
    Sensor holding apparatus 失效
    传感器固定装置

    公开(公告)号:US07412776B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-08-19

    申请号:US11507545

    申请日:2006-08-22

    IPC分类号: G01B5/004 E04G3/00

    摘要: An apparatus for holding a sensor such that the sensor touches an object at an arbitrary position in a three-dimensional space, the apparatus including a base member; a rotatable member which is rotatable relative to the base member about a vertical axis line; a first link device including a first stationary link, a first movable link, and two first pivotable links which are pivotably connected to the first stationary link and the first movable link, such that the first stationary link, the first movable link, and the two first pivotable links cooperate with each other to define a quadrilateral, wherein the first stationary link is fixed to the rotatable member such that the first movable link is movable in a plane containing the axis line; a second link device including two second pivotable links, and a second stationary link and a second movable link which are pivotably connected to the two second pivotable links, such that the two second pivotable links, the second stationary link, and the second movable link cooperate with each other to define a quadrilateral, wherein the second stationary link is fixed to the first movable link such that the second movable link is movable in the plane containing the axis line, and wherein the second movable link supports the sensor; a first biasing device which produces a thrust having a directional component resisting a load applied to the first movable link; and a second biasing device which produces a thrust having a directional component resisting a load applied to the second movable link.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于保持传感器的装置,使得传感器在三维空间中的任意位置处接触物体,该装置包括基座部件; 可旋转构件,其可相对于所述基座构件绕垂直轴线旋转; 第一连杆装置,包括第一固定连杆,第一可移动连杆和两个可枢转地连接到第一固定连杆和第一可动连杆的第一可枢转连杆,使得第一固定连杆,第一可动连杆和两个 第一可枢转连杆彼此协作以限定四边形,其中第一固定连杆固定到可旋转构件,使得第一可移动连杆可在包含轴线的平面中移动; 包括两个第二枢转连杆的第二连杆装置,以及可枢转地连接到两个第二可枢转连杆的第二固定连杆和第二可动连杆,使得两个第二可枢转连杆,第二固定连杆和第二可移动连杆配合 彼此定义四边形,其中所述第二固定连杆固定到所述第一可动连杆,使得所述第二可移动连杆在包含所述轴线的平面中可移动,并且其中所述第二可移动连杆支撑所述传感器; 第一偏置装置,其产生具有抵抗施加到第一可动连杆的负载的方向分量的推力; 以及第二偏置装置,其产生具有抵抗施加到第二可动连杆的负载的方向分量的推力。

    Blood vessel endothelium function evaluating apparatus provided with an electronic control device
    3.
    发明授权
    Blood vessel endothelium function evaluating apparatus provided with an electronic control device 有权
    具有电子控制装置的血管内皮功能评价装置

    公开(公告)号:US07862512B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-01-04

    申请号:US11507564

    申请日:2006-08-22

    IPC分类号: A61B8/00

    摘要: An apparatus for measuring a short-axis image of a blood vessel under a skin of a living being, the apparatus including an ultrasonic probe including an ultrasonic array which has a plurality of ultrasonic transducers arranged in one direction in an emission surface and which emits, from the emission surface, an ultrasonic beam toward the blood vessel, the ultrasonic probe additionally including a main frame which is adapted to be placed on the skin of the living being, an x-axis supporting device which is supported by the main frame and which supports the ultrasonic array such that the ultrasonic array is rotatable about an x axis parallel to the direction of arrangement of the ultrasonic transducers in the emission surface, and an x-axis control device which controls a posture of the ultrasonic array supported by the x-axis supporting device such that in a y-z plane, the emission surface of the ultrasonic array is parallel to the blood vessel.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于测量生物皮肤下的血管的短轴图像的装置,该装置包括超声波探头,该超声波探头包括超声波阵列,该超声波阵列具有沿发射表面沿一个方向排列的多个超声波换能器, 所述超声波探头从所述发射面向所述血管进行超声波束,所述超声波探头还包括适于放置在所述生物体的皮肤上的主框架,由所述主框架支撑的x轴支撑装置, 支撑超声波阵列使得超声波阵列能够绕平行于发射表面中的超声波换能器的方向的x轴旋转;以及x轴控制装置,其控制由x轴支撑的超声波阵列的姿势, 轴向支撑装置,使得在yz平面中,超声波阵列的发射表面平行于血管。

    Blood-vessel-endothelium-function inspecting apparatus
    5.
    发明申请
    Blood-vessel-endothelium-function inspecting apparatus 审中-公开
    血管内皮功能检查仪

    公开(公告)号:US20070060818A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-03-15

    申请号:US11506847

    申请日:2006-08-21

    IPC分类号: A61B8/00

    摘要: An apparatus for inspecting a function of an endothelium of a blood vessel of a living being, by stopping, using an inflatable cuff wound around a forearm of the living being, a flow of blood in a blood vessel of the forearm, subsequently ending the stopping of the flow of blood, and causing an ultrasonic probe placed on a skin of an upper arm of the living being to emit, from an emission surface thereof, an ultrasonic wave toward a blood vessel under the skin, the apparatus including an elbow-portion support member which supports an elbow portion of the living being; and a hand-dorsal-portion support member which supports a dorsal portion of a hand of the living being and which cooperates with the elbow-portion support member to keep, in a space, the inflatable cuff wound around the forearm of the living being.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于通过停止使用在前臂的前臂上缠绕的活动的前臂的可充气的袖带来检查生物的血管的内皮的功能的装置,其中,所述前臂的血管中的血液流,随后结束停止 的血液流动,并且使得放置在生物体的上臂的皮肤上的超声波探头从其发射表面向皮肤下方的血管发射超声波,该装置包括肘部 支撑构件,支撑生命的肘部; 以及手背部支撑构件,其支撑生物的手的背部并且与肘部支撑构件协作以在空间中保持缠绕在生物的前臂周围的可充气袖带。