Patent ID: 7608054

Claim:
A medical treatment apparatus comprising a hand piece ( 1 ); an ultrasound generator, electrical connection means ( 4 ) attached to a rear end of the hand piece ( 1 ) and connected to the ultrasound generator and for feeding electrical energy to the ultrasound generator; a connector ( 5 ) disposed near the rear end of the hand piece ( 1 ) for connecting a line to a storage container for a medical flushing liquid; a sonotrode ( 3 ) having a tip and having a rear end attached to the front end of the hand piece ( 1 ), and wherein the ultrasound generator is connected to and drives the sonotrode ( 3 ) with ultrasound; a flushing line ( 6 ) having a rear end connected to the connector for medical flushing liquid to the tip of the sonotrode, wherein the flushing line is aligned relative to an axis of symmetry of the hand piece; a valve ( 7 ) disposed in the flushing line ( 6 ); a channel disposed within the sonotrode ( 3 ) for feeding a medical flushing liquid to a front tip of the sonotrode ( 3 ) and wherein the channel is connected to a front end of the flushing line ( 6 ); an inner cylindrical thread ( 8 ) disposed at a front end of the hand piece ( 1 ); an adaptation sleeve ( 10 ) supporting an outer attachment thread on a rear end for attachment to the inner cylindrical thread ( 8 ) of the front side of the hand piece ( 1 ), wherein the adaptation sleeve ( 10 ) is slid over the sonotrode ( 3 ) and attached to the hand piece ( 1 ); a suction tube ( 11 ) slid over the sonotrode ( 3 ), surrounding a front end of the sonotrode ( 3 ) and attached to a front end of the adaptation sleeve ( 10 ) for suctioning waste medical flushing liquid; a receiver part ( 12 ) disposed with a first end at and branching sideways from the adaptation sleeve ( 10 ) for feeding the waste medical flushing liquid; a hose connection ( 13 ) disposed with a first end at a second end of the receiver part ( 12 ); a suction hose ( 14 ), wherein a first end of the suction hose ( 14 ) is inserted into the hose connection ( 13 ); a separator ( 15 ), wherein a second end of the suction hose ( 14 ) is inserted into the separator; a suction apparatus (A); a connector ( 17 ) disposed at the suction apparatus (A); a connection tube ( 16 ), wherein the connection tube connects the separator ( 15 ) and the connector ( 17 ) of the suction apparatus (A).