SURGICAL SYSTEM HAVING A NON-INVASIVE FLOW SENSOR

摘要

A surgical system having a console that receives a cassette with a rigid flu id channel formed into a rigid plastic component or housing. The housing serves as a substrate for an elastomeric acoustic coupling that can be formed on the housing outside of t he fluid channel. The acoustic transducer is elastically mounted within the console, such as o n a spring, so as to provide a relatively constant force between the transducer and the acoustic coupling when the cassette is installed in the console.