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An ultrasonic clamp coagulator assembly that is configured to permit selective cutting, coagulation, and fine dissection required in fine and delicate surgical procedures. The assembly includes a clamping mechanism, including a clamp arm cam-mounted at the distal portion of the instrument, which is specifically configured to create a desired level of tissue clamping forces. The balanced blade provides a functional asymmetry for improved visibility at the blade tip and a multitude of edges and surfaces, designed to provide a multitude of tissue effects: clamped coagulation, clamped cutting, grasping, back-cutting, dissection, spot coagulation, tip penetration and tip scoring. The assembly also features hand activation configured to provide an ergonomical grip and operation for the surgeon. Hand switches are placed in the range of the natural axial motion of the user's index or middle fingers, whether gripping the surgical instrument right-handed or left handed.

A transverse mode ultrasonic probe is provided which creates a cavitation area along its longitudinal length, increasing the working surface of the probe. Accessory sheaths are also provided for use with the probe to enable a user to select from features most suited to an individual medical procedure. The sheaths provide acoustic enhancing and aspiration enhancing properties, and / or can be used as surgical tools or as medical access devices, protecting tissue from physical contact with the probe.

An electrosurgical instrument for sealing and cutting tissue is provided. The instrument includes a housing having a plurality of transducers included therein and a waveguide coupled to and extending from the housing. An end effector assembly disposed at a distal end of the waveguide includes a pair of opposing jaw members, where at least one of the jaw members includes a transducer. The transducer is configured to receive an acoustic signal from the plurality of transducers in the housing.

A switched resonant power amplifier system for ultrasonic transducers is disclosed. The system includes an amplifier that receives and processes a driver output signal for generating a drive signal that is provided to an ultrasonic device for controlling output of the ultrasonic device. An output control circuit receives and processes a signal related to a feedback signal generated by the ultrasonic device and a divider reference signal, and generates a compensated clock signal that is adjusted for at least one of phase and frequency differences between the received feedback signal and the divider reference signal. A compensated drive circuit receives and processes the compensated clock signal for generating the divider reference signal, and for generating the driver output signal.

Device and methods for the treatment of wounds using ultrasound energy are disclosed. The portable wound treatment device may deliver ultrasound energy to a wound through direct contact with the ultrasound tip and / or through a liquid coupling medium. Several ultrasound tips specially designed to concentrate and focus ultrasound energy onto a wound are also disclosed. The ultrasound tip may also possess an abrasive peripheral boundary to aid in debriding the wound and / or removing necrotic tissue. The disclosed invention may have multiple beneficial effects in treating a wound such as sterilizing a wound, reducing external bleeding, and / or providing pain relief.

A system and method is provided for using backscattered data and known parameters to characterize vascular tissue. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, an ultrasonic device is used to acquire RF backscattered data (i.e., IVUS data) from a blood vessel. The IVUS data is then transmitted to a computing device and used to create an IVUS image. The blood vessel is then cross-sectioned and used to identify its tissue type and to create a corresponding image (i.e., histology image). A region of interest (ROI), preferably corresponding to the identified tissue type, is then identified on the histology image. The computing device, or more particularly, a characterization application operating thereon, is then adapted to identify a corresponding region on the IVUS image. To accurately match the ROI, however, it may be necessary to warp or morph the histology image to substantially fit the contour of the IVUS image. After the corresponding region is identified, the IVUS data that corresponds to this region is identified. Signal processing is then performed and at least one parameter is identified. The identified parameter and the tissue type (e.g., characterization data) is stored in a database. In another embodiment of the present invention, the characterization application is adapted to receive IVUS data, determine parameters related thereto (either directly or indirectly), and use the parameters stored in the database to identify a tissue type or a characterization thereof.

A dual mode handheld ultrasonic device is provided for guiding a venous access catheter into a patient's peripheral vein. It provides B-mode imaging with a predetermined aperture and operating frequency which locates and displays a gray scale cross-sectional image of the target blood vessel. A single doppler beam in a separate mode detects the same blood vessel and creates a single scanline image superimposed to such B-mode cross-sectional image. Simultaneously, the intensity of the positive doppler shift detected by the single doppler beam as it hits the target blood vessel activates a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) indicator lights with varying voltage requirements mounted in the scanhead. Activated LED indicator lights forms an arrow pointing inferiorly perpendicular to the target vessel which guides a physician or a paramedical professional to the precise catheter insertion spot on a patient's extremity while simultaneously viewing the target blood vessel's cross-section on the display screen.

An ultrasonic surgical device for the coagulation of animal tissue having an ultrasonic applicator and a movable jaw with a jaw surface adjacent the distal portion of the ultrasonic applicator for movement toward the applicator to a closed position at a predefined clearance of between about 0.075 to about 1.9 millimeters from the applicator. The device may also include a mechanical cutting element that can be extended into the clearance to cut the tissue and means to vary the predefined clearance without removing the applicator from the patient. Tissue coagulating and cutting can be maximized and performed separately and can be easily monitored by the surgeon.

An ultrasonic surgical cutting method and apparatus is provided wherein the method and apparatus allows for the cutting of bone from within a hollow pathway such that a cutter associated with the ultrasonic method and apparatus remains sufficiently cool to prevent necrosis of the bone being cut. Furthermore the ultrasonic device and method can be employed in the cutting of soft tissue, wherein a cooled cutter is used to prevent the sticking of soft tissue to the cutting blade of the device during use.

An ultrasonic surgical cutting method and apparatus is provided wherein the method and apparatus allows for the cutting of bone from within a hollow pathway such that a cutter associated with the ultrasonic method and apparatus remains sufficiently cool to prevent necrosis of the bone being cut. Furthermore the ultrasonic device and method can be employed in the cutting of soft tissue, wherein a cooled cutter is used to prevent the sticking of soft tissue to the cutting blade of the device during use.

An apparatus and method for transdermally delivering a vaccine comprising a delivery system having (i) a microprojection member (or system) that includes a plurality of microprojections (or array thereof) that are adapted to pierce through the stratum corneum into the underlying epidermis layer, or epidermis and dermis layers and (ii) an ultrasonic device. In one embodiment, the vaccine is contained in a biocompatible coating that is applied to the microprojection member. In a further embodiment, the delivery system includes a gel pack having a vaccine-containing hydrogel formulation that is disposed on the microprojection member after application to the skin of a patient. In an alternative embodiment, the vaccine is contained in both the coating and the hydrogel formulation.

A touch screen monitor having a display monitor and an ultrasonic device. The ultrasonic device may include a sensor array using piezoelectric sensors to detect the surface topology of a biological or other object that is in contact with a surface of the display monitor. The display monitor may be a LCD or LED monitor.

An ultrasonic clamp coagulator assembly that is configured to permit selective cutting, coagulation, and fine dissection required in fine and delicate surgical procedures. The assembly includes a housing, a curved blade assembly and a first shroud and a second shroud.

The invention discloses a multi-sensor fusion-based autonomous obstacle avoidance unmanned aerial vehicle system and a control method. The system includes an environment information real-time detection module which carries out real-time detection on surrounding environment through adopting a multi-sensor fusion technology and transmits detected information to an obstacle data analysis processing module, the obstacle data analysis processing module which carries out environment structure sensing construction on the received information of the surrounding environment so as to determine an obstacle, and an obstacle avoidance decision-making module which determines an obstacle avoidance decision according to the output result of the obstacle data analysis processing module, so as to achieve obstacle avoidance of an unmanned aerial vehicle through the driving of power modules which is performed by a flight control system. According to the multi-sensor fusion-based autonomous obstacle avoidance unmanned aerial vehicle system and the control method of the invention, binocular machine vision systems are arranged around the body of the unmanned aerial vehicle, so that 3D space reconstruction can be realized; and an ultrasonic device and a millimeter wave radar in an advancing direction are used in cooperation, so that an obstacle avoidance method is more comprehensive. The system has the advantages of high real-time performance of obstacle detection, long visual detection distance and high resolution.

A system and method to be used in ultrasonic lithotripsy of a stone in a ureter, the system including a catheter having a probe tip capable of transmitting and receiving ultrasonic energy. The catheter can include an inflatable balloon adjacent to the probe tip, the balloon capable of pooling some urine in the ureter to be used as an ultrasonic transmission media. The ultrasonic probe is connected to a source of energy capable of driving the probe tip to deliver ultrasonic energy of a high frequency and relatively low energy to image a stone. Then the probe can be connected to a source of energy capable of driving the probe to deliver a low frequency, high energy ultrasonic to disintegrate the stone.

An ultrasonic surgical system utilizes a digital control system to generate ultrasonic drive current for transducers that are located in a hand piece and are attached to a surgical scalpel or blade so as to vibrate the blade in response to the current. The digital control includes a digital signal processor (DSP) or microprocessor; a direct digital synthesis (DDS) device; a phase detection logic scheme, a control algorithm for seeking and maintaining resonance frequency; and design scheme that allows to regulate current, voltage, and power delivered to an ultrasonic device. The system allows the power versus load output curve to be tailored to a specific hand piece; the components of the digital system are much less sensitive to temperature variations; and the digital system provides increased flexibility in locating the resonance frequency of the blade and running diagnostic tests.

An ultrasonic surgical cutting method and apparatus is provided wherein the method and apparatus allows for the cutting of bone from within a hollow pathway such that a cutter associated with the ultrasonic method and apparatus remains sufficiently cool to prevent necrosis of the bone being cut. Furthermore the ultrasonic device and method can be employed in the cutting of soft tissue, wherein a cooled cutter is used to prevent the sticking of soft tissue to the cutting blade of the device during use.

Commercially feasible methods for lyophobic precipitation of liquid-dispersed or dissolved material (e.g., medicaments) are provided wherein a plurality of individual, open containers (22) each containing a quantity (84) of a solution or dispersion are treated within a common pressurizable chamber (12). In this process, desired near-supercritical or supercritical temperature and pressure conditions are established for a selected antisolvent gas such as carbon dioxide, and an ultrasonic device (14) is actuated to generate high energy ultrasonic waves in the chamber (12). This leads to intense mixing of the antisolvent with the liquid solution or dispersion within the containers (22), with consequent solvent removal and material precipitation.

The invention provides a flexible ultrasonic transducer array, which comprises at least two ultrasonic transducer units and flexible layer medium. The ultrasonic transducer is arranged in the flexible layer medium or on the surface of the flexible layer medium in the form of array; an ultrasonic device comprises at least two ultrasonic transducer units, an ultrasonic emitter / ultrasonic transceiver, ultrasonic coupling medium, a microprocessor and flexible layer medium, and the ultrasonic transducer unit is arranged in or on the surface of flexible layer medium in the form of array to form flexible ultrasonic transducer array; ultrasonic transducer array and the ultrasonic device also comprises a shape scanner / shape sensor which is used for measuring superficial shape information of flexible ultrasonic transducer array and helping ultrasonic beam focus and orient. As flexible ultrasonic transducer array can attach to body position with different superficial shapes, the technical proposal provided by the invention can realize the effect of ultrasonic treatment / ultrasonic imaging which can be realized by the prior art.

Provided is an ultrasonic device including: an ultrasonic element array substrate having a plurality of ultrasonic elements that each include a piezoelectric body; an acoustic lens secured via an acoustic matching layer to a surface, formed with the ultrasonic elements, of the ultrasonic element array substrate; and a support member secured to a surface, opposite to the surface formed with the ultrasonic elements, of the ultrasonic element array substrate, wherein the support member is formed to have a larger area, in plan view in the thickness direction of the ultrasonic element array substrate, and a higher bending stiffness than the ultrasonic element array substrate, and the acoustic lens is formed to have a lower bending stiffness than the ultrasonic element array substrate. The above-described ultrasonic device further includes an acoustic matching layer filled between the ultrasonic element array substrate and the acoustic lens.

A surgical navigation method comprises collecting the three-dimensional images of an organ through nuclear magnetic resonance or CT (computed tomography) before an operation; receiving a planned puncture trace input by a user and displaying the planned puncture trace in the three-dimensional images; collecting the three-dimensional images of the organ through an ultrasonic device during the operation, and converting the three-dimensional images into an operating room coordinate system through a tracer; registering the three-dimensional images before the operation with the three-dimensional images during the operation to obtain final displacement vectors and rotation matrixes; according to the final displacement vectors and the rotation matrixes, converting the three-dimensional images and the planned puncture trace into the operating room coordinate system for displaying; obtaining the motion trace of a puncture needle utilized during the operation through the tracer and displaying the motion trace, the three-dimensional images before the operation and the planned puncture trace in the operating room coordinate system synchronously. The invention also provides a corresponding surgical navigation system. According to the surgical navigation system, blurred images during the operation are replaced by clear images before the operation to provide great help to aspects such as operation, time and image clearness.

A dual system for overall engine emissions control, including prevention of excessive formation of nitrogen oxides and carbon compounds 1) by cooling and humidifying intake air and 2) by restructuring and modifying hydrocarbon fuels, resulting in a more complete combustion, a significant reduction of the latent heat of combustion and increased combustion potency. The invention utilizes one or more ultrasonic devices to create an aqueous vapor from an ultra-pure water supply, said vapor varying in quantity according to engine size and load, having electronic sensors and controls for precision switching, metering and delivery. Simultaneously, while humidifying the intake air, the hydrocarbon fuel is passed from a fuel supply through a catalytic reactor to restructure the hydrocarbon molecules into a more homogeneous, more combustible and cleaner-burning fuel. Thus equipped, said internal combustion engine can be run as a fuel conserving, low emissions prime mover.

A dental device capable of monitoring at least one characteristic of the dental device. The characteristics are monitored by the use of microchips; radio frequency identification devices (RFID), bar codes, resistors, diodes, semiconductors, and magnetic strips.

An ultrasonic wave device has a first flexible layer, a second flexible layer, a flexible circuit between the first flexible layer and the second flexible layer, and one or more arrays of capacitive ultrasonic transducer between the first flexible layer and the second flexible layer electrically coupled to the flexible circuit. The array of capacitive ultrasonic transducer is configured to transmit ultrasonic energy through the second flexible layer in response to electrical energy applied via the flexible circuit.