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Products: Nanotechnology
PolyMedex Discovery Group (Putnam, CT) offers NanoMedTM thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) formulations for minimally invasive medical devices. These formulations increase flexural modulus (stiffness) of polymers while...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Protek Power North America (Hudson, MA) offers the PM42 Series of AC/DC power supplies that provide 30-48W and compliance to both EN60101-1 medical safety standards and EN60950-1 ITE safety standards. They are suitable for a...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Photofabrication Engineering (Milford, MA) has introduced a line of EMI/RF shields with snap-on/snap-off covers, allowing access to components within the shields. The shields are designed to protect components from radio...
Products: Medical
PureFlo® PES Mini filter cartridges from JALT Technologies (Manassas, VA) are highly retentive hydrophilic polyethersulfone (PES) membrane filters in an all-polypropylene construction for chemical compatibility....
Mission Accomplished: Medical
From the football turf to high above the Earth, heat exhaustion is a life-threatening concern. Heat exhaustion, or hyperthermia, is an acute condition caused by excessive exposure to...
Mission Accomplished: Robotics, Automation & Control
Anyone who has ever worked on a car’s engine or tried to fix a sink knows the frustration of trying to perform precision work in a hard-to-reach place. Now imagine conducting repairs on the...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
Since the earliest missions in space, NASA specialists have performed experiments in low gravity. Protein crystal growth, cell and tissue cultures, and separation technologies such as...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
Sojourner was perhaps the crowning achievement of the NASA Space Telerobotics Program. The Space Telerobotics Program, a collaboration among Ames Research Center, Johnson Space Center, Jet...
Features: Medical
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than 700,000 people in the U.S. suffer a stroke each year, and approximately two-thirds of these individuals survive...
Features: Materials
For over 50 years, silicones have been used extensively in the design and manufacture of medical devices intended for short- and long-term human implantation. Silicone’s overwhelming...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Veridiam Medical (San Diego, CA) provides spin welding that allows plastic components to be cleanly and permanently attached to metal assemblies, using heat generated from rotational friction. This facilitates the completion of...
Products: Medical
The 1020-M Ultra Light- Weld® from Dymax (Torrington, CT) is a tack-free, LED-curable adhesive designed for rapid bonding of plastics typically used in the manufacture of medical devices. It is formulated for on-demand...
Products: Medical
Connector/Cable Systems
Plastics One (Roanoke, VA) custom designs, molds, and assembles medical connector/cable systems for applications in areas such as body-worn diagnostic testing and monitoring components. Standard connector component products also are available.
Products: Medical
Dynamic Test Instruments
Instron (Norwood, MA) has released the ElectroPuls E10000 and E10000 Linear-Torsion allelectric dynamic test instruments capable of running slow-speed static tests through to highfrequency dynamic tests at over 100 Hz. Tests include evaluation of tensile strength of soft tissues and fracture mechanics. They feature no oil...
Products: Medical
Medical Precision Windings, a division of Classic Coil (Bristol, CT), offers MicroCoil coils for medical applications. They have an outside diameter as small as .012" and an inner diameter of .005". They can be wound with 39-58...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Small-diameter ball screws from Nook Industries (Cleve land, OH) are designed for smaller-footprint medical applications. Screw diameters range from 6 mm to 12 mm, and they feature standard leads from 1 mm to 6 mm. They feature a...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
RepExact (Gastonia, NC) offers thin-wall metal microtubing for medical applications, including specialty tubes, stents, and instrumentation. Materials offered include stainless, titanium, nitinol, and other common and...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The REDEL 1P connector from LEMO USA (Rohnert Park, CA) is lightweight, and EtO and gamma sterilizable. It is available in 2 to 14 contacts in a variety of colors for easy identification. It features golden contacts and an...
Products: Medical
Pump Module
IDEX Health & Science (Oak Harbor, WA) has introduced a controlled delivery module (CDM) that provides precise liquid flow control through feedback from an integrated flow sensor. It can be integrated into an equipment manufacturer’s instrument. It has been applied to applications ranging from mass spectrometry calibration to in...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
HaydonKerk Motion Solutions™ (Waterbury, CT) has introduced the MotoDrive™ PDE integrated linear actuator and electronic drive, available in size 17 single or double stack. It is designed to operate with optically isolated...
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
North Star Imaging (Rogers, MN) offers the ImagiX compact computed tomography (CT) X-ray system, designed for the scanning of small items sized from 0.02" to 6". It can also be used for digital X-ray inspection. The system...
Products: Medical
Johnson Electric (Vandalia, OH) offers Saia® UAL Series linear stepper motors that deliver constant positioning force of up to 30 N over the full travel distance of up to 15 mm, at speeds up to 4.16 mm/sec at 200 Hz. The...
Products: Medical
Digital Computer Microscope
The speckFINDER HD from Dazor (St. Louis, MO) is a digital computer microscope designed with a flat panel digital display for training, instructing, or supervising. With three USB outputs and a video output, users can output files to a Flash drive or project live images to an overhead screen. The high-resolution,...
Products: Motion Control
Vortex mixers from Jeio Tech (Woburn, MA) feature three kinds of mode operation by two-mode key (touch, continuous, and high-continuous) and a BLDC motor. They have a wide ad justable speed range up to 3,000 rpm, measure 6.06 ×...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
In 1985, a team of engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore began developing software to manage various tasks for the Hubble Space Telescope. In the early phases of development,...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
For decades, NASA has been using advanced cameras to create images of the universe never before seen and then transmit these pictures back to Earth, where scientists then ask themselves, “What...
Mission Accomplished: Imaging
As part of an internship in NASA’s Space Biology Program, Mary M. Yang had the opportunity to work in NASA’s Mission Control Center and see the first close-up images of Saturn being piped...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
By mid-1963, American astronauts had visited space on six different occasions, all as part of NASA’s first human space flight program, the Mercury Program. During the final Mercury...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
Discovering New Drugs on the Cellular Level
As a potential source of food for long-duration space missions, space-grown plants could give astronauts an important psychological boost, as fresh vegetables could serve as a welcomed change from reconstituted foods in plastic bags. Even more, these plants could likely aid in the recycling of air and...
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Ask the Expert
John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.
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Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
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Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.
