US 11,864,777 B2
Ultrasonic system
Niccolò Cerisola, Genoa (IT); and Andrea Cardoni, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to Mectron S.P.A.
Appl. No. 17/050,516
Filed by Mectron S.P.A., Genoa (IT)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/053438
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 26, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/207534, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 31, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 102018000004895 (IT), filed on Apr. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0219991 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61C 1/07 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/1622 (2013.01) [A61B 17/1615 (2013.01); A61B 17/320068 (2013.01); A61C 1/07 (2013.01); A61B 2017/320098 (2017.08)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasonic system comprising:
generator means of ultrasonic microvibrations;
waveguide means connected to and extending away from the generator means to bend at least in part; and
an operating element joined to a stationary bending node of the waveguide means, so that flexural microvibrations are transmitted by the waveguide means to the operating element as alternate torsional or flexural microvibrations, wherein
said generator means comprise at least one ultrasonic transducer coaxially arranged to a prevailing development direction of the waveguide means;
a distal portion of said waveguide means extends along a direction of development of the waveguide means defining an axis of waveguide means (Z or D);
said operating element extends along a direction defining a secondary or tertiary axis (Y or X); wherein
said axis of waveguide means (Z or D) and said secondary or tertiary axis (Y or X) are substantially orthogonal and incident to each other and define an oscillation plane (P);
and wherein
axes (Y or X, Z, D) of the operating element, generator means and waveguide means are coplanar.