General Electric Company
ULTRASOUND PROBE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME

Abstract:

An ultrasound probe is presented. The ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound probe handle. Moreover, the ultrasound probe also includes a phase change chamber monolithic with respect to a portion of the ultrasound probe handle, where the phase change chamber includes hermetic chamber walls extending around and defining an enclosed chamber and a material disposed within the hermetic chamber walls, where the material is configured to change phase in response to heat from a component of the ultrasound probe.