Abstract:
A vibration transmitter includes: a proximal end extending portion; a supported portion; a distal end extending portion; a first relay unit provided between the supported portion and the proximal end extending portion; and a second relay unit provided between the supported portion and the distal end extending portion. The second relay unit includes a horn that is constructed such that an outer diameter at a position continuously adjacent to the supported portion is larger than: (i) an outer diameter of the first relay unit at a position continuously adjacent to the supported portion, and (ii) the outer diameter of the distal end extending portion. The horn expands amplitude of vibration output from a distal end of the distal end extending portion to be larger than a maximum amplitude at an antinode of vibration in the first relay unit or the proximal end extending portion.
Abstract:
A front mass of a vibration generating unit included a flange portion supported, and a block portion provided on a proximal side with respect to the flange portion. A distal end of the element unit abuts on a proximal end of the block portion. Ultrasonic vibration generated in a piezoelectric element is transmitted, thereby vibrating the front mass in a predetermined frequency region where a referential vibration anti-node, which is one of vibration anti-nodes located on the proximal side with respect to the flange portion, is located at a boundary position between the block portion and the element unit or in the vicinity of the boundary position.
Abstract:
An ultrasonic probe can include a probe main body that receives ultrasonic vibration generated by an ultrasonic transducer and a treatment unit disposed on a distal end of the probe main body. The treatment unit can include a resection portion and a guide unit that each have a projected shape when viewed along a longitudinal axis of the ultrasonic probe. The resection portion can resect a bone that needs to be treated along a resection direction. The guide unit can protrude from the resection portion on a distal end of the treatment unit. The guide unit can also help to maintain the resection direction relative to a central axis of the hole.
Abstract:
An ultrasonic probe includes a probe main body section to which the ultrasonic vibration is transmitted from its proximal end to its distal end; a curving section which is bent relative to the probe main body section; and a treating section which is continuous with a distal portion of the curving section to treat the knee joint. The curving section has a central axis which is bent at an angle of 5 degrees or more and 8 degrees or less relative to the longitudinal axis of the probe main body section, and is always disposed in a projection plane of the probe main body section, when the probe main body section is seen along a longitudinal axis from the proximal end toward the distal end.
Abstract:
The ultrasonic probe for a shoulder joint includes a curved extending section curved to a probe main body toward a first intersecting direction intersecting a longitudinal axis. The curved extending section includes a first curved outer surface facing the first intersecting direction, a second curved outer surface facing a second intersecting direction opposite of the first intersecting direction, a third curved outer surface facing a first width direction perpendicular to the first and second intersecting directions, and a fourth curved outer surface facing a second width direction opposite of the first width direction. A cutting surface on the second curved outer surface is different from a cutting surface on each of the third curved outer surface and the fourth curved outer surface in extending pattern of the grooves.
Abstract:
An energy supplier of an ultrasonic treatment system can output an electric power in a first output mode and a second output mode in which the electric power supplied to a drive force generation unit during a unit time is higher than in the first output mode. A controller maintains an output state of the electric power in the first output mode when a judgment section judges that a load on an ultrasonic probe is less than or equal to a threshold, and switches the output state of the electric power to the second output mode when the judgment section judges that the load is more than the first threshold.
Abstract:
An ultrasound device includes: an ultrasound generator; an ultrasound probe; and a distal end treatment portion capable of forming a bone hole when pressed against a bone. The distal end treatment portion includes a base portion, and a distal end portion. The distal end portion includes projections and a valley portion between adjacent projections. Each projection is formed of at least one excision surface that is inclined from a base of the projection to a distal top of the projection. The excision surface is capable of finely crushing the bone. The valley portion includes a valley peak at a distal-most meeting point of adjacent projections such that a surface of the valley extending distally from a point at which the valley meets an outer surface of the base portion to the valley peak is inclined.
Abstract:
An ultrasonic probe for arthroscopic surgery includes: a bend extending portion which is provided on a distal side of a probe main body and which extends to bend to a side of a second intersecting direction of the probe main body, when a certain direction intersecting the longitudinal axis is a first intersecting direction and a direction opposite to the first intersecting direction is a second intersecting direction; and a treatment portion which is provided on the distal side of the bend extending portion and which is configured to treat a treatment target.
Abstract:
An ultrasonic probe includes a first bent extending portion provided on a distal side with respect to a narrowed portion and extending in such a state as to bend toward a first crossing direction side crossing a longitudinal axis, and a second bent extending portion continuous with the distal side of the first bent extending portion and extending in such a state as to bend toward second crossing direction side opposite to the first crossing direction. The second bent extending portion includes a blade portion, and in a projection seen from the distal side, the first bent extending portion and the second bent extending portion are located within a minimum inside diameter of a sheath.
Abstract:
A curving section is always disposed in a projection plane of a probe main body section. The curving section includes a first bending surface which bends relative to a peripheral surface of the probe main body section to approach a longitudinal axis, thereby intersecting the longitudinal axis; a second bending surface which bends relative to the first bending surface toward a bending direction of the first bending surface and a direction away from the longitudinal axis; a third bending surface which bends relative to the second bending surface toward a direction to approach the longitudinal axis on a side reverse to the bending direction of the first bending surface, and extends toward an extension line of the first bending surface.