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Additive Process for Thin Film Circuits

Metrigraphics LLC, Wilmington, MA, has developed new additive fabrication techniques in processing substrate-based ultra-miniaturized circuits. Circuits can be manufactured with properties that include...

Basic Board Mount Pressure Sensors

Honeywell Sensing and Control, Morris Township, NJ, introduces its TBP Series of Basic Board Mount Pressure Sensors designed for customers who require a simple, high quality, cost-effective, basic performance,...

PRODUCT OF THE MONTH - MAXPOS 50/5 Positioning Controller

maxon precision motors, Fall River, MA, launches the MAXPOS 50/5 motion controller. This compact EtherCAT Slave ensures reliability and durability even under harsh conditions.

Grasshopper3 GigE Vision™ PoE Cameras

Point Grey Research, Inc., Richmond, Canada, introduces the Grasshopper®3 GigE Vision™ PoE camera family, an extension to the existing Grasshopper3 USB3 Vision™ product line. The Grasshopper3...

Protecting Wearable Technology in the Medical Market

How well do we really know ourselves? Consider that the typical modern automobile provides far more real-time feedback on its operating status than we know about the health of our own bodies....

Powering the Drive toward Smarter Wearables for Healthcare

Wearable devices continue to fuel a fast-growing drive toward more comprehensive services in health and fitness. Propelling this growth, the combination of market need and technological...

Detecting Deadly Lung Cancer by Scent

Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel www.aftau.org According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lung cancer is the leading cause of death in the US and the second most common cancer...

Elastic Technology Creates ‘Soft’ Machines

A team of engineers at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, say they have developed a technique that could produce “soft machines” made of elastic materials and liquid metals for potential...

Blood Processor Device Could Treat Sepsis

A team of engineers at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, say that they have developed a new technology that could revolutionize treatment and prevention of sepsis. Commonly called “blood...

Manufacturing 3D Metal Parts Efficiently

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA, say they have developed a more efficient approach to a challenging problem in additive manufacturing, using selective laser...

Hybrid Circuit Uses Nanotube Transistors

A group of engineers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Angeles, say that they are developing a flexible, energy-efficient hybrid circuit combining carbon...

Engineering Systems for Special Needs Children

A group of engineers and students at Kansas State University, Manhattan, is developing technology to improve the health and quality of life for children with severe developmental disabilities.

Permanent Eye Sensor Could Track and Monitor Glaucoma

A team of engineers at the University of Washington, Seattle, have designed a low-power sensor that could be placed permanently in a person’s eye to track changes in eye pressure. The...

Form + Function: Interconnect Cable Assemblies for Ambulatory Monitoring

Building on the success of smartphones, mobile gadgets, and wearable sports fitness gear, the medical industry has steadily trended toward improved portability of...

The Value of USP Class VI Testing for Medical Device Cable and Wire

To design and successfully sell medical devices, manufacturers must ask themselves a number of key questions. What range of functions should this product offer? In what type of...

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Faulty Test Results

No discipline is as precise as the design and manufacture of medical devices. No other function is as crucial in its precision. Exact measurements and tests are a critical necessity— from heart...

Model 55 Compact Pressure Regulator

Rotork Fairchild, Winston-Salem, NC, announces its Model 55 Pressure Regulator featuring a non-rising stem within a small footprint design that delivers high-precision control in a lightweight, compact...

Bidirectional Electronic Valves

Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, introduces Minimatic® electronic valves, precision-built two-way control valves that utilize a unique, patented valving principle. With a cycle life of over a...

New SD and SD-C Series TVS Diodes

Littelfuse, Chicago, IL, announces the SD and SD-C Series 450W Discrete Unidirectional and Bidirectional TVS Diodes, which are ideal for replacing multilayer varistors in low speed and DC applications, as they...

Expanded HS Series of Heat Sinks

Crydom, San Diego, CA, introduces four new Heat Sinks designed specifically for use with single, dual, and three-phase Solid State Relays. The new models, rated at 0.25, 0.36. 0.7, and 1.0 degrees C per watt,...

VCA Developer’s Kit

BEI Kimco Magnetics, Vista, CA, introduces the Voice Coil Actuators (VCA) Developer’s Kit, the first of its kind in the market. The self-contained kit includes a VCA with a built-in feedback sensor and a programmable...

STRATO-Apex574 Coordinate Measuring Machine

Mitutoyo America Corporation, Aurora, IL, announces the new STRATO-Apex574 Coordinate Measuring Machine, a compact bridge-type design featuring accuracy as low as 0.7μm. It utilizes a 0.05μm...

Motion System Selector

MICROMO, Clearwater, FL, has launched its Motion System Selector™, a powerful, interactive parametric search tool that helps OEMs and design engineers quickly and easily specify and analyze hundreds of thousands of...

Radiopaque Clad Wires

Anomet Products, Inc., Shrewsbury, MA, introduces custom manufactured clad composite wire, an effective alternative to solid wires with marker bands to improve the visibility of implantable devices. Radiopaque Clad Wires...

Ethernet 48-Channel Digital I/O Module

ACCES I/O Products, Inc., San Diego, CA, has released a new addition to its Ethernet family of products—Model ETH-DIO-48, designed for compact control and monitoring applications. This product features...

Single Channel Analog-to-Digital Converter

Mouser Electronics, Inc., Mansfield, TX, is the first to ship the new MAX11905 Single Channel SAR Analog-to-Digital Converter from Maxim Integrated, a 20-bit Successive Approximation Register Analog to...

Series IO Ultrasonic Sensors

Pepperl+Fuchs, Twinsburg, OH, introduced Series IO Ultrasonic Sensors, which establish a new level of versatility and convenience with simple pushbutton programming. Pushbutton programming provides fast and easy...

iPORT CL-U3 External Frame Grabber

Pleora Technologies, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, has launched the first product that transforms Camera Link® cameras into USB3 Vision™ cameras. With the iPORT CL-U3 External Frame Grabber, designers can cut...