Features

Non-Magnetic D-Sub I/O Connectors

CONEC (Garner, NC) has enhanced its I/O connectors for use in areas with high magnetic fields by replacing the usual steel shells and hardware with tin-plated brass and making the brackets of diecast zinc....

Linear Slide

LM76 (East Longmeadow, MA) offers the Whispah™ Linear Slide for linear motion applications that must be non-contaminating to their environments, such as medical equipment. The linear slide is available in two sizes. The WSP1...

Balance Tools Used for Return-to-Duty Assessment and Rehabilitation

Dizziness and balance issues are the most frequently reported symptoms following exposure to an improvised explosive device.

NASA Light Technology Helps Reduce Painful Side Effects from Radiation and Chemotherapy

Results of a two-year clinical trial indicate that a NASA technology originally developed for plant growth experiments on space shuttle missions has...

The Cool Future of UV Curable Silicone Extrusion

Silicone elastomers are high-performance thermoset materials broadly used in diverse industries, including automotive, aerospace, electronics, consumer goods, and health care. They are recognized...

For Precise Medical Components, Abrasive Waterjet Makes the Cut

Still a relatively young technology, abrasive waterjet has evolved to the point where it offers substantial benefit to some manufacturers of surgical instruments and a broad...

Reverse Engineering

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...

Silicone Cabling

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...

Precision Linear Motor Tables

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,...

Servo Drives

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....

Multi-Layer Polyimide Tubing

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...

Class VI Colorants

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...

Compact Connectors

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...

Foot-Operated Controls

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...

BGA Socket

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...

Medical Elastomer

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...

Metric Ball Screws

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...

External Medical Power Supplies

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,...

Carbide Drill

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...

LED Light Engine Platform

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...

Mercury-Free Batteries

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....

Surface Mount Chips

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...

Triple Row Connectors

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....

COTS Filters

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...

Silicone Swelling Agent

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...

Servo Motors

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...

LAN-Controlled Transient Recorders

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...

Antimicrobial Adhesive

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...

Industrial Housed Motors

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...