1993-10-19
1994-11-29
Jaworski, Francis
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128 4, A61B 800
Patent
active
053680367
ABSTRACT:
A joint construction for joining an end cap and a pliant sheathing tube of an ultrasound probe of type including a rigid tip member supporting thereon an ultrasound transducer element and housed in the end cap together with the ultrasound transducer element, and a flexible rotation transmission shaft connected at the fore end thereof to the tip member to transmit rotation thereto and fitted in the pliant sheathing tube. According to the invention, the joint construction further comprises a metal ring fixedly fitted in a fore end portion of the pliant sheathing tube by the use of an adhesive, the fore end portion of the pliant sheathing tube being in turn fixedly fitted in a joining base end portion of the end cap by the use of an adhesive to form overlapped end portions immediately around the metal ring, and a spooled thread portion tightly wound around the overlapped end portions of the end cap and pliant sheathing tube and anchored in position around the overlapped end portions by use of an anchoring adhesive.
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Itoi Hiromu
Tanaka Toshizumi
Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.
Jaworski Francis
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