Electrical generator or motor structure – Non-dynamoelectric – Piezoelectric elements and devices
Patent
1990-11-27
1992-03-31
Budd, Mark O.
Electrical generator or motor structure
Non-dynamoelectric
Piezoelectric elements and devices
310365, 310366, 310334, H01L 4108
Patent
active
051011336
ABSTRACT:
An ultrasonic transducer for lithotripsy has piezoelectric transducer elements fixed to a backing and connected on the front side to first electrodes and on the rear side to second electrodes which can be connected to an electrical pulse generator. In order to avoid the danger of tissue damage in the focal area, especially for focusing transducers, the electrodes are designed such that an homogeneous field is produced in the front-side part of the transducer elements and a non-homogeneous field is produced in the opposite, rear-side part of the transducer elements. The amplitude of the negative pulse occurring in addition to the positive pressure pulse is thus reduced, the negative pulse being responsible for the danger of this tissue damage. In one way of achieving this effect each transducer element is provided with a pot-shaped electrode which surrounds the rear-side part of the transducer element.
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Budd Mark O.
Richard Wolf GmbH
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