Solenoid Gas Valve

A new line of miniature solenoid gas valves from Emerson, Danbury, CT, is designed for use with air and inert gases. The ASCO Series 090 offers compact, lightweight architecture and low power consumption, making them ideal for portable medical devices requiring precision control of gases, without sacrificing critical flow requirements. The valves’ exceptional service lifetime of over 50 million cycles significantly increases OEM device efficiency and reliability. Typical applications for the Series 090 include oxygen therapy devices, compression therapy (for treatment of DVT), and gas analyzers.

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Self-Lubricating LSR

Momentive, Waterford, NY, offers a liquid silicone rubber (LSR) designed to provide enhanced lubricity for specialized applications requiring a high-slip surface not achievable via traditional silicone molded parts.

Silopren LSR 46X5 SL series is a two-component, self-lubricating LSR for injection molding processes that provides a lubricious surface on the molded part after vulcanization.

The LSR can eliminate the need for secondary lubrication processes to reduce the coefficient of friction, which can improve the mounting efficiency of molded parts during the assembly of devices.

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Flame-Resistant Polymers

A new portfolio of polymers for the housing and hardware of electronic medical devices is available from Eastman, Kingsport, TN. The MXF product line is built on Tritan’s durability and disinfectant resistance. These materials offer chemical compatibility with a wide range of disinfectants used to combat HAIs as well as improved durability and higher impact strength. Materials in the portfolio enable ease of processing, with lower ejection force for easier de-molding.

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Biomedical Adhesives

Epoxy Technology, Billerica, MA, has expanded its line of biocompatible/ medical-grade adhesives. MED-OG198-55 and MED-730-110 have successfully undergone ISO10993-5 cytotoxicity testing. MED-OG198-55 is a special cationic-based, translucent, highly thixotropic gel with significant UV shadow curing capabilities and enhanced performance when thermally post cured. MED-730-110 is an easy-to-use (1:1 mix ratio, dual cartridge packaging), structural adhesive, with low or room temperature curing capability. It has excellent adhesion to plastics, catheter tubing, and many known difficult-to-bond materials.

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Long-Fiber Thermoplastic

A new long-fiber thermoplastic from Solvay, Brussels, Belgium, is designed for structural medical equipment components. Xencor™ LFT compounds deliver high strength and enhanced impact resistance for structural applications. These long glass-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics can replace metal and traditional short fiber thermoplastics. Typical applications include chassis, gear systems, and components needing high mechanical properties and load-bearing capabilities. They provide better retention of mechanical properties at elevated temperatures along with very low creep, outstanding fatigue resistance and excellent surface finish.

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Machining Capacity

Solar Atmospheres, Hermitage, PA, has added a CNC lathe to support rapid growth of its mechanical testing department. The company says the increased machining efficiency of the Haas ST-10 improves turnaround at the final stage in the thermal process, obtaining the tensile test results of processed materials. Previously performed by an outside company, bringing this testing in-house supports the company’s overall goal of becoming Nadcap Laboratory Testing AC 7101 approved.

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Adhesives

Qosina, Ronkonkoma, NY, offers a variety of reliable and durable solutions for bonding assemblies together. If customers require an adhesive that has a low, medium, or high viscosity, or are working with different types of materials, H.B. Fuller’s instant and light-cured adhesives deliver hassle-free bonding. A variety of UV-curable and cyanoacrylate instant adhesives from are available. The adhesives are designed for general purpose bonding on all types of substrates and suitable for use in medical devices.

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Solvent Dispenser

TechnoMed, Rockville, MD, has released easy-to-operate dispenser for cyclohexanone or alternative solvents.

The DS-Vision is designed for manual bonding of plastic medical tubing.

The dispenser is ideal for quality control, which is critical for the assembly of tubing devices, especially those used in minimally invasive medical procedures. It confirms the presence of solvent on each tube to be assembled and gathers production data to generate optimal bonding results.

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Digital Indicators

Mahr, Providence, RI, has added a new higher-selectable resolution option to its indicator line.

These MarCator 1086R and 1087R digital indicators provide easy operation, a large display, powerful application features, and simple transmission of measurements with their wired or integrated wireless system.

The new option offers six different resolutions, ranging from 0.00001 to 0.0005 in. (0.0001–0.01 mm).

The digital indicators with the selectable high-resolution option include the 1086 R-HR with large display and the 1087 R-HR analog/digital display and dynamics.

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Acetal Resin

DuPont, Wilmington, DE, has introduced a new acetal resin that features the lowest coefficient of friction (COF) in the company’s portfolio of materials for medical devices. The DuPont™ DELRIN® SC698 resin with integrated lubrication can help improve patient comfort and ease of use by ensuring smooth actuation of high-load drug-delivery devices like inhalers, injectors, and pumps. Its strength, stiffness, and dimensional stability can help increase the injection precision of wearables and inserter devices. The resin is a highly crystalline homopolymer offering strength, stiffness, and fatigue resistance.

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Robot Actuators

Bimba, University Park, IL, has introduced multi-axis electric linear robot actuators for either X-Z or X-Y motion applications. Employing a one-of-a-kind two-axis system, the IntelliAxis™ unit features a single continuous belt that serpentines around the two axes eliminating the need for a motor in the Z- or Y-axis while driving a pair of coordinated motors in the X-axis. These configurations, known as T-bot and H-bot within the industry, enable synchronized control for complex motion movement profiles such as circles, ellipses and sine waves.

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Twisted Lumen Tubing

Freudenberg, Kaiserslautern, Germany, has introduced a twisted lumen tubing. HelixTwist™ is designed to prevent lumen kinks and blockage by providing an equal balance of stress across the inner and outer lumens as the tube bends. The tubing is optimal for pacemakers, breathing tubes, neurostimulation, and other applications that require navigation through tortuous pathways within the human body. It can carry wires and cables or provide a fluid pathway for drug delivery.

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Software

Users can now create exploded views within CAD software from Onshape, Boston, MA. Exploded views are independently controlled and work with the other aspects of an Onshape Assembly, including display states, named views, and configurations. When a user changes the configuration, the exploded view will parametrically adapt to that new configuration in an intelligent way. Users can create multiple assembly sequences to mirror the real assembly instructions while leveraging the richness of the live 3D design.

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Single-Board Computer

Congatec, San Diego, CA, has released a new single board computer (SBC) with eighth generation Intel Core processors (code name Whiskey Lake). Featuring the Intel Core i5-8365UE, only 4 GB out of a possible 64 GB of RAM, and running Windows 10 Pro, the tested version of the conga-JC370 3.5-inch SBCs reached the 85th percentile in the overall UserBenchmark comparison. It was found to offer an extremely good power-per-watt ratio as well as excellent thermal behavior. When running a stress test on the SBC for almost an hour with an overall CPU utilization of 98.7 percent, no throttling was required for cooling down the CPU.

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Battery Holder

Keystone, New Hyde Park, NY, has added a 9-V battery holder to its Densi-Pak series. Featuring a prewired enclosure designed for versatility, the 9-V holder can easily be placed in any device on or off printed circuit boards; between components, cards, and anywhere where space is limited; and wherever is more convenient for users to change batteries. The high-performance holder is made of ABS plastic with brass, nickel-plated contacts for a reliable, low-contact-resistance battery connection. The snap-on cover design protects and secures the battery within the compartment to prevent shorting or damage.

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Panel Mount Pump

Watson-Marlow, Falmouth, UK, offers a line of panel-mount pumps designed for use by medical device specialists serving the surgical ablation market. The 400RXMD DriveSure range includes pumps, motors, gear-boxes, and controls. The pumps deliver very low flows with high back pressure up to 87 psi through catheters or needles in cooling applications. The pumps also feature a tube holder, which ensures that the tube locates in the right position every time the safety guard is closed, providing rapid, trouble-free tube loading.

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Plasma Treatment System

A plasma treatment system for catheters is available from Nordson MARCH, Concord, CA.

The PROGENY™ plasma treatment system has a chamber that is 2 m deep with overall dimensions of 660 × 2260 × 660 mm for plasma treatment of catheters at their full extended length.

Plasma cleans and activates the surface prior to applying a lubricious coating and provides adhesive bonding of the balloon to the catheter. It removes contamination, impurities, and organics at the nanometer level and improves surface wettability, hydrophilicity, and bonding capabilities.

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MCU

Renesas, Tokyo, Japan, has introduced a 32-bit MCU. The RX23W combines full Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy support with the company’s high-performance RX MCU family. This enables customers to optimize system control and wireless communication applications while providing a more secure way to answer Bluetooth security risks such as eavesdropping, tampering, and viruses. The MCU’s full Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy support means long distance communication (long range: 400 m), mesh networking functions, and 2 Mbps data throughput. It also achieves a 3.0 mA reception mode peak current and a reception sensitivity level of –105 dBm at 125 Kbps.

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