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Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
As human beings become more comfortable sharing their space with robots, we can expect that robotic technologies will infiltrate even more aspects of our lives. For the past decade or so,...
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Soldiers returning from the conflict in Iraq, accident victims, cancer patients, or those with muscle-wasting diseases often end up with grossly misshapen bodies for which...
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Pressurex® flexible Mylar-based sensor film from Sensor Products (Madison, NJ) captures and permanently records pressure distribution and magnitude between mating or contacting surfaces in the injection-molding...
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
OmniVision Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) offers the OV6930 medical image sensor. It is a low-power, 400 × 400 pixel square graphics array, or SquareGA™, CMOS image sensor with an optical format of 1/10”, and a packaged...
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Products: Medical
GlobTek (Northvale, NJ) has introduced the GS-1549 power supply that delivers up to 50W of continuous output power. It features dual regulated outputs of +12 Vdc at 2A, and variable 10-100 Vdc at 26W. The power supply also features...
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Products: Materials
Electrospinning Technology
Zeus (Orangeburg, SC) offers an electrospinning platform for the medical device and filtration industries. Electrospinning produces polymer fibers with thicknesses from the nano scale to the micro scale. Fabrics with complex shapes can be developed from solutions, pastes, and bioabsorbables. The electrospun polymer fibers...
Products: Motion Control
STEUTE Meditech (Ridgefield, CT) has introduced wireless foot-operated controls that are CE-, TUV-, and UL-compliant. The units feature spread-spectrum, frequency-hopping technology for interference-immune...
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Products: Medical
Astrodyne (Mansfield, MA) has introduced the PMK/PMMK AC-DC switching power supplies that deliver 450W with active PFC. They are qualified for medically approved AC-DC power supply applications. The series provides standard...
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Products: Medical
OMEGA Engineering (Stamford, CT) offers bimetal sanitary dial thermometers with all-316/316L stainless steel wetted parts with a 3-A certified design. The hermetically sealed thermometers have an easy-to-calibrate...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Kugler of America (Somers, CT) provides micromachining technologies for producing single parts and series production of micro-components for the medical industry. Production series or prototype parts using production steps...
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Products: Medical
Qosina (Edgewood, NY) has introduced alternating syringes in 1, 3, 5, and 10 ml sizes. The single-use reciprocating syringes provide a single-handed solution for injection and aspiration. Two syringes, in a molded finger...
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Products: Medical
Henkel Corp. (Rocky Hill, CT) has released singlecomponent light- and moisture-curing silicone adhesives for use on medical devices that incorporate silicone materials or require flexible bond joints or coatings. The...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Radicom Research (San Jose, CA) offers a series of external and embedded modems designed to meet medical requirements. Avail - able in both serial TTL and USB interfaces, the modems operate under Windows, Linux, or...
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Products: Medical
Texcel (East Longmeadow, MA) offers custom medical device development and manufacturing, including surgical, interventional, and implantable devices such as endoscopic instruments, spinal/orthopedic implants, and...
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Products: Medical
Automation Products Group (Logan, UT) offers the PG5 digital pressure gauge that features a five-digit display. The gauge uses MEMS-based sensing technology, and incorporates user-selectable setup features. It provides...
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Products: Medical
The Athlonix™ high-power-density brush DC motors from Portescap, a Danaher Motion company (West Chester, PA), feature output power up to 9 watts and a coreless design with a self-supporting coil and magnetic circuit. They are...
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Products: Medical
Infusion System
Hospira (Lake Forest, IL) has introduced the GemStar® SP infusion system with GemStar™ Infusion Suite software. The system is designed to help caregivers better incorporate patient safety best practices at the patient’s bedside. The GemStar Infusion Suite software is a standalone PC-based application that enables efficient and...
Products: Medical
Kavlico, a unit of Custom Sensors & Technologies (Moorpark, CA) has introduced the P6060 pressure sensors for air pressure measurements in oxygen concentrators, respirators, and ventilators. The lightweight sensors have a...
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Mission Accomplished: Photonics/Optics
ong NASA’s research goals is increased understanding of factors affecting plant growth, including the effects of microgravity. Impeding such studies, traditional light sources used to grow plants on...
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Mission Accomplished: Medical
Conventional periodontal probing is indeed invasive, uncomfortable for the patient, and the results can vary greatly between dentists and even for repeated measurements by the same dentist....
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John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
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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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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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