Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Tabei

Hiroshi Tabei has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5083568
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosing device in which resolving power becomes uniform in a direction orthogonal to a scanning direction of sound rays over a wide range from the shallow to the deep. Ultrasound signals are transmitted and received by changing combination of the arrays associated with transmission and/or receiving of the ultrasound waves depending on a depth of an object for observation by using an ultrasound probe incorporating a plurality of unidimensional arrays of a plurality of ultrasound oscillators arranged in parallel and an acoustic lens having intrinsic focal points for every array on the side of an ultrasound radiation face of these arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Yokogawa Medical Systems, Limited
    Inventors: Toru Shimazaki, Motoyoshi Ando, Hiroshi Tabei