Patent ID: 7249513
Filing Date: 2007-07-31
Classification: B06B,G10K

Abstract:
1. An ultrasound probe, comprising: a support member comprising an acoustic dampening material; a signal cable comprising a plurality of electrically conductive members extending continuously along the length of said signal cable, wherein a distal end portion of each of said plurality of electrically conductive members is separately embedded within and continuously extends into and through said support member to a first side thereof from a second side thereof, wherein a flexible primary portion of said signal cable extends proximally away from said second side of the support member and includes an electrically non-conductive material, and wherein said plurality of electrically conductive members are electrically separated in said flexible primary portion of the signal cable by said electrically non-conductive material; and, an ultrasound transducer array supportably mounted to said first side of said support member, said ultrasound transducer array including a plurality of transducer elements that are electrically, directly and fixedly interconnected to a distal end of corresponding different ones of said plurality of electrically conductive members at said first side of the support member, wherein each of said electrically conductive members of the signal cable extends continuously from a proximal end corresponding with the proximal end of said flexible primary portion of the signal cable, continuously into said second side of the support member, and continuously through said support member to said corresponding distal end at the first side of the support member.