ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT APPARATUS
    1.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250099084A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-27

    申请号:US18898749

    申请日:2024-09-27

    Abstract: An ultrasonic measurement apparatus according to the present disclosure is an ultrasonic measurement apparatus configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to a measurement target and receive the ultrasonic wave reflected inside the measurement target, and includes an ultrasonic sensor configured to transmit and receive the ultrasonic wave and output an ultrasonic signal by receiving the ultrasonic wave, an processor configured to output a measurement start request for instructing start of the ultrasonic measurement, and a processor configured to record the ultrasonic signal in a storage, wherein the processor records, in the storage, the ultrasonic signal after a predetermined time elapses from the output of the measurement start request.

    ULTRASONIC THICKNESS MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC THICKNESS MEASUREMENT METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220296217A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US17655726

    申请日:2022-03-21

    Abstract: An ultrasonic thickness measurement device includes: an ultrasonic probe including eight or less ultrasonic elements each including a transmission element and a receiving element, the transmission element and the receiving element being ultrasonic elements; and a controller configured to determine a thickness of target body tissue from tomographic image data of a body of a subject acquired based on a received signal that is received by each of the receiving elements of each of the ultrasonic elements. The controller determines the thickness from the tomographic image data based on each of the received signals that is received by each of the ultrasonic elements.

    Fatigue Detection Device, Support System, And Fatigue Detection Method

    公开(公告)号:US20240081774A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-14

    申请号:US18466290

    申请日:2023-09-13

    CPC classification number: A61B8/0858

    Abstract: A fatigue detection device includes an ultrasonic device configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave into a living body, then receive the ultrasonic wave reflected by a tissue in the living body to output a received signal, and at least one processor, wherein the processor obtains the received signal output from the ultrasonic device, and detects a fatigue state of the tissue from a change in the received signal when a load is applied to the living body.

    FLUID DEVICE
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220034782A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17387367

    申请日:2021-07-28

    Abstract: A fluid device includes: a flow path through which a fluid flows; and an ultrasonic wave transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to generate a standing wave to the fluid in the flow path along a first direction orthogonal to a flowing direction of the fluid. The ultrasonic wave transmitter is in contact with the fluid and faces an antinode region corresponding to any antinode in the standing wave.

    THICKNESS CALCULATION METHOD, CALCULATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20250099071A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-27

    申请号:US18898777

    申请日:2024-09-27

    Abstract: A thickness calculation method for calculating a thickness of the tissue in a living body by a computer, the processor of the computer is configured to perform acquiring received data based on reception signal of ultrasonic wave for a target living body, classifying the target living body into one of the first attribute and the second attribute based on acquired target received data, (i) calculating the thickness of tissue by inputting the target received data into the first training model, when the target living body is classified into the first attribute, and (ii) calculating the thickness of tissue by inputting the target received data into the second training model, when the target living body is classified into the second attribute. The first training model has trained the first sample data and the thickness label of the biological sample having the first attribute as teaching data, and the second training model has trained the second sample data and the thickness label of the biological sample having the second attribute as teaching data.

    THICKNESS CALCULATION METHOD, THICKNESS CALCULATION PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND THICKNESS CALCULATION DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20230225670A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-20

    申请号:US18156430

    申请日:2023-01-19

    Inventor: Mio SASAKI

    CPC classification number: A61B5/4519 A61B8/0858 A61B8/4254

    Abstract: A thickness calculation method includes: a signal acquisition step of acquiring a reception signal by transmitting an ultrasonic wave from an ultrasonic probe into a living body and receiving the ultrasonic wave reflected in the living body by the ultrasonic probe; a boundary candidate extraction step of extracting a plurality of boundary candidates from the reception signal; a feature information acquisition step of acquiring feature information based on a change in the reception signal; a state determination step of inputting the feature information and the boundary candidate to a machine learning model that receives the feature information and the boundary candidate and outputs boundary information indicating whether the boundary candidate is a boundary of a tissue in the living body, and acquiring the boundary information; and a thickness calculation step of calculating a thickness of the tissue based on the boundary information.

    ULTRASONIC SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ULTRASONIC SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20230314208A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-05

    申请号:US18192173

    申请日:2023-03-29

    CPC classification number: G01H11/08 H10N30/02 H10N30/302

    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface at an opposite side from the first surface, the substrate having an opening penetrating the substrate from the first surface to the second surface; a vibration plate covering a first surface side of the opening; piezoelectric elements provided at a surface of the vibration plate at an opposite side from the opening and each including a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode; and an elastic layer in contact with the vibration plate in the opening, in which a portion in which the first electrode, the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode overlap is defined as an active portion, and a plurality of the active portions face the one opening, and a thickness of the elastic layer is equal to or larger than half a thickness of the substrate and less than the thickness of the substrate, and the thickness of the elastic layer in each of the active portions is uniform.

    FLUID DEVICE
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220034846A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17388585

    申请日:2021-07-29

    Abstract: A fluid device includes: a flow path through which a fluid flows; and an ultrasonic element configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to the fluid to generate a standing wave in the fluid in the flow path along a first direction orthogonal to a flowing direction of the fluid. The ultrasonic element includes a vibrator having a fluid contact surface that comes into contact with the fluid, and a piezoelectric element that is provided at the vibrator and that is configured to flexurally vibrate the vibrator in a normal direction of the fluid contact surface. When a thickness of the vibrator in the normal direction is t, a sound velocity of a medium of the fluid is C, an average sound velocity of a longitudinal wave transmitted in the vibrator is C′, a dimension of the flow path in the first direction is L, and a mode order of the standing wave is n, the following expression is satisfied. t

    FLUID DEVICE
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220034337A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17388473

    申请日:2021-07-29

    Abstract: A fluid device includes: a flow path through which a fluid flows; a pressure chamber spaced apart from the flow path in a first direction (Y direction) orthogonal to a flowing direction of the fluid in the flow path; a communication path that is formed along the Y direction and that communicates the flow path with the pressure chamber; and an ultrasonic wave transmitter configured to transmit ultrasonic waves to the fluid in the pressure chamber to generate a standing wave along the Y direction in the flow path.

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