Methods for manufacturing ultrasound transducers and other components

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11845108
APP PUB NO 20200222941A1
SERIAL NO

16827097

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The disclosed technology features methods for the manufacture of electrical components such as ultrasound transducers. In particular, the disclosed technology provides methods of creating an ultrasonic transducer by connecting one or more multi-layer printed circuits to an array of ultrasound transducer elements. In one embodiment, the printed circuits have traces in a single layer that are spaced by a distance that is greater than a pitch of the transducer elements to which the multi-layer printed circuit is to be connected. However the traces from all the layers in the multi-layer printed circuit are interleaved to have a pitch that is equal to the pitch of the transducer elements. The disclosed technology also features ultrasound transducers produced by the methods described herein.

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FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC21919 30TH DRIVE SE BOTHELL WA 98021

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chaggares, N Christopher Whitby, CA 5 59
Rieder, Eric Georgetown, CA 7 25

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