Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasound transducer and ultrasound endoscope
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Application No.: US15422527Application Date: 2017-02-02
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Publication No.: US09919343B2Publication Date: 2018-03-20
- Inventor: Takanao Fujimura
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2014-236901 20141121
- Main IPC: H01L41/08
- IPC: H01L41/08 ; B06B1/06

Abstract:
An ultrasound transducer includes: an acoustic matching layer bending with a predetermined curvature; a plurality of piezoelectric elements disposed on an inner face on a side of a curvature center of the acoustic matching layer in such a manner that the plurality of piezoelectric elements bend; a plurality of wirings including respective one ends electrically connected to the plurality of piezoelectric elements, respectively; a substrate to which respective other ends of the plurality of wirings are electrically connected; and a holding member provided on the plurality of wirings at a position partway of the plurality of wirings between the plurality of piezoelectric elements and the substrate, the holding member being configured to hold a pitch of the plurality of wirings so as to be a pitch that is equal to or smaller than a predetermined arrangement pitch of the plurality of piezoelectric elements.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170144194A1 ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER AND ULTRASOUND ENDOSCOPE Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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