Patent ID: 7798969

Claim:
An ultrasonic probe, comprising: an ultrasonic device that transmits and receives ultrasound; a frame that supports the ultrasonic device; a window that is coupled with the frame so as to surround the ultrasonic device; and an ultrasound propagation medium with which a space surrounded by the frame and the window is filled, wherein the ultrasonic device is a accommodated in a space that is surrounded by the frame and the window and that is filled with the ultrasound propagation medium, the window comprises a resin portion having a property of letting ultrasound pass therethrough and a metal portion, a part of the metal portion being embedded in an inside of the resin portion and another part not being covered with the resin portion at a position opposed to a peripheral portion of the frame, and wherein the window and the frame are coupled by directly coupling the part of the metal portion that is not covered with the resin portion with the frame.