Patent ID: 9258994
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: A01G,A01M

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for treating infestation in a wooden body, the apparatus comprising: a belt wrappable and fastenable around a tree or wooden body; multiple arrays positioned at regular intervals on the belt; each array including a 4×4 grid comprising sixteen High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) transducers; each array also including an imaging transducer; a controller for activating each imaging transducer of each array in a sequence, wherein each imaging transducer transmits an ultrasound signal through the tree or wooden body to an imaging transducer in an array positioned on the opposite side of the tree or wooden body, wherein the imaging transducer on the opposite side of the tree or wooden body receives a transmitted ultrasound signal echo, until all of the imaging transducers of all the arrays have received an ultrasound signal echo in sequence; the controller generating an image of a horizontal cross section of the tree or wooden body; and a driving unit to determine a phase difference between the HIFU signals to be transmitted by each of the multiple arrays, for focusing a maximum intensity of the HIFU signals at a place of infestation in the tree or wooden body, the place of infestation based on the image; and a support structure configured to facilitate positioning of the belt around the tree or wooden body.