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Products: Medical
NVision (Coppell, TX) now offers industrial CT scanning for reverse engineering and full inspection of medical components. Industrial CT scanning utilizes X-ray equipment to produce 3D representations of both internal and...
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Products: Medical
Standard and custom high flex silicone flat cables from Cicoil (Valencia, CA) are free of halogens, do not shed surface particulates, and are water and chemical resistant. The cables are suitable for incorporation into power...
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Products: Motion Control
The MMG Mini-Mag line of precision linear motor tables from Dover (Westborough, MA) is now available in aluminum-based versions with an optional single phase motor to reduce controller complexity, system footprint,...
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Products: Motion Control
Galil Motion Control (Rocklin, CA) has introduced two multi-axis servo drives that perform sinusoidal commutation: the AMP-43540, which contains four 600 Watt servo drives, and the AMP-43640, which contains 20 Watt servo drives....
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Products: Medical
PolyMedex Discovery Group (Putnam, CT) has announced the availability of custom multi-layer tubing composed of thermoset polyimide and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) laminate, suitable for medical device...
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Products: Materials
PolyOne (Avon Lake, OH) offers OnColor™ HC Plus, a new line of USP Class VI colorants for the healthcare industry. The palette of standard and custom colors is pre-certified to meet or exceed ISO 10993 and USP Class VI...
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Products: Medical
Spectrum Advanced Specialty Products (Fairview, PA) has introduced the Mini-MIL circular connector, a small, lightweight connector that offers space and weight savings with performance equivalent to MIL-DTL-38999. It is...
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Products: Medical
STEUTE Meditech (Ridgefield, CT) has introduced foot-operated controls for dental chairs/handpieces, designed to control up to 14 functions (electrical/pneumatic). The unit meets all relevant medical standards and...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Ironwood Electronics (Burnsville, MN) offers a BGA socket for 1.118 mm pitch, 729 pin BGA IC’s. The SG-BGA-6345 socket is designed for 31 × 31 mm package size and operates at bandwidths up to 8 GHz with less than 1 dB of insertion...
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Products: Medical
Teknor Apex (Pawtucket, RI) offers a transparent medical elastomer gel available in free-flowing pellets. The Medalist MD-447 is ultrasoft and scores a rating of 25 on the Shore OO test for ultra-soft materials. The compound...
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Products: Medical
Ultra Motion (Cutchogue, NY) has upgraded its linear actuator product line to include precision ground metric ball screws. Several different lead accuracies (ranging from 8 to 50 micron) and backlash specifications (ranging...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
XP Power (Sunnyvale, CA) has introduced the AHM series of external AC-DC power supplies aimed at medical and IT applications. The series comprises 5 single-output ranges of 85, 100, 150, 180, or 250 Watt output,...
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Seco Tools (Troy, MI) offers the Feedmax™ SD230A solid carbide 30xD drill in diameters ranging from 4 mm to 10 mm as standard, with 3 mm available as semi-standard. A 4-facet point geometry provides centering capability, with...
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Products: Photonics/Optics
SCHOTT (Southbridge, MA) has introduced the 2nd generation of LEDgine™ LED light engine platform that now offers twice as much light as before. It was developed for more efficient coupling of LED light into fiber...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The Renata Batteries (Dallas, TX) division of The SWATCH Group has developed a line of 0% mercury silver oxide batteries suitable for powering medical devices including insulin pumps, glucose meters, and surgical tools....
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Products: Medical
Stackpole Electronics (Raleigh, NC) offers the RPC Series of surface mount chips that offer pulse withstanding in a 5% tolerance part. It is completely untrimmed, which allows the entire width of the resistance element to...
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Products: Medical
Mill-Max (Oyster Bay, NY) offers 804 and 805 Series interconnects, suitable for high pin count I/O and board-to-board applications. The triple row pin field allows for signal connections to be more densely packaged....
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Products: Medical
LCR Electronics (Norristown, PA) offers a line of single phase COTS filters that operates over an extended temperature range of -40 °C to 85 °C (-40 °F to 185 °F). The RoHS-compliant Single Stage F9100 Filters and Double Stage...
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Products: Materials
MicroCare Medical (New Britain, CT) has introduced Swellex™ silicone swelling agent as a solution to joining silicone to rigid parts. This newer class of solvent utilizes proprietary solvent technology that swells...
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Products: Medical
Myostat Motion Control (Ontario, Canada) has revised the CM1 line of CoolMuscle integrated servo motors. The new Revision C incorporates new, more readily available components into a slightly smaller casing with an updated and more...
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Products: Medical
Elsys Instruments (Monroe, NY) has expanded its family of LAN-controlled transient recorders to include several high-speed modules that offer sampling speeds of 240 MS/sec or 120 MS/sec at 14-bit or 16-bit...
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Products: Materials
Avery Dennison Medical Solutions (Pasadena, CA) has developed an antimicrobial adhesive featuring NIMBUS® technology from Quick-Med Technologies (Gainesville, FL) that can be used for a variety of medical applications...
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Products: Medical
WITTENSTEIN (Bartlett, IL) has introduced industrial motors specifically designed and developed to support OEM needs. They are suitable for precise, high-speed positioning applications, feature high dynamic performance...
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Products: Materials
The Strouse Corporation (Westminster, MD) offers an adhesive designed to cover half an area measuring .105" × .105" and crafted with a tab as an asset when attaching to the device. It is die cut in a Class 10,000...
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Products: Medical
Qosina (Edgewood, NY) offers an inline flow switch #97337 that features both a female and male luer lock. It is made of a polycarbonate body and an acetal slider that acts as an ON/OFF switch, and may be used in any...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The No. 932 electrically heated, 500°F cabinet oven from Grieve (Round Lake, IL) is used to cure large silicone rubber parts. Workspace dimensions measure 50"W × 50"D × 50"H. 60 kW power installed in Incoloy-sheathed tubular...
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Products: Medical
Ensinger (Washington, PA) has launched a series of highly loaded thermoplastic carbon fibre composites designed to offer high mechanical strength and heat distortion properties to medical components....
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Emblation Microwave (Alloa, Scotland) offers the MSYS245 medical-grade microwave power generator, capable of more than 100 W CW output power at 2.45 GHz. It is suitable for a wide range of surgical...
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Products: Motion Control
Equipment Solutions (Sunnyvale, CA) offers submicron, >300 nanometer positioning resolution, cross roller voice coil stages that are self contained, compact, and able to be mounted in a horizontal or vertical axis. Th...
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Ask the Expert

Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.

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