US 11,813,019 B2
Catheter ultrasound transducer container
Ran Sela, Ramat Hasharon (IL); Yuri Megel, Haifa (IL); and Shimon Eckhouse, Haifa (IL)
Assigned to HEALIUM MEDICAL LTD, Yokneam (IL)
Appl. No. 17/260,458
Filed by HEALIUM MEDICAL LTD, Yokneam (IL)
PCT Filed Aug. 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IL2019/050941
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/039442, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/720,995, filed on Aug. 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0267673 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 18/1492 (2013.01) [A61B 2018/00029 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00267 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00375 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00702 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00791 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00982 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00994 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A catheter ultrasound (US) transducer container, the catheter US transducer comprising:
a housing;
at least one cooling channel, oriented longitudinally along a longitudinal axis of the housing;
a sealing cooling channel cover;
one or more piezoelectric (PE) PE elements positioned on a floor of said cooling channel and having an emitting surface facing said cover; and
wherein said cooling channel has a trapezoid cross section at any point along said PE element.