Robotics & Automation

Mechanical Components

Learn about the design and testing of mechanical components in medical devices, including MEMS pressure sensors, connectors, wires, and cables.

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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New Blood Pressure Connectors Prevent Misconnects
Healthcare professionals use medical devices in a variety of settings and situations from urgent to routine. In an emergency, any sort of confusion, hindrance, or hesitation concerning the most...
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Applications: Medical
Formally Verifying Heart Pump Software with SPARK and Echo
The Ada-based SPARK programming language and toolset offer strong guarantees about the behavior of software systems. This powerful core underpins Echo, a complete approach to practical...
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Briefs: Medical
Less-Invasive Ventricular Assist Device for Late-Stage Heart Failure
The first full-support, miniaturized ventricular assist device designed to be placed in the pericardial space, was approved by the FDA in late November. HeartWare...
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Products: Materials
Radel Replaces Acetal in Quick Couplings
LinkTech Quick Couplings, Ventura, CA, a global supplier of quick couplings and valves, is offering a new quick coupling made of Radel polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) resin from Solvay Specialty Polymers USA...
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Products: Motion Control
Range of Silent DC Brush Motors
Crouzet has introduced the DCmind Brush range of direct current brush motors. These soundless motors, even under full load, offer exceptional efficiencies, long service life, and a wide range of gearboxes and...
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Applications: Medical
Configuring Complex Part Designs for Prosthetic Devices
ToughWare Prosthetics, an engineering and design group dedicated to developing innovative new assistive technologies, helps satisfy the global need for prosthetic devices that are...
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Mission Accomplished: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Exoskeletons Provide Hope for Those with Paraplegia
According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, somewhere between 236,000 to 327,000 people in the US are living with serious spinal cord injuries. About 155,000 have...
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Products: Medical
Adjustable Mounting Shaft Collars
A line of adjustable mounting shaft collars that can be customized for securing sprockets, pulleys, lever arms, and other drive components is available from Stafford Manufacturing Corp. (Wilmington, MA)....
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Products: Motion Control
Slotless Frameless Direct Drive Motors
Applimotion, Inc., (Loomis, CA) introduces new models of its UTS Slotless frameless direct drive motors expanding covering sizes from 12 mm diameter to 300 mm diameter. The slotless motor product line is...
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Products: Motion Control
Series 1336 and 1741 CXR Brushed Motors
MICROMO (Clearwater, FL) has expanded its range of brushed motors with the addition of two new CXR series graphite commutated motors. The new drives offer high-power density with 4 or 8 mNm continuous...
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Products: Motion Control
Configurable CAD Models for DC Brush Motors
PITTMAN Motors, a division of AMETEK Precision Motion Control (Harleysville, PA), introduced configurable DC motor 3D model downloads. The 3D model system is an online system that allows an engineer...
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News: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Disposable MEMS Market Growing, Study Says
The market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) used as pressure sensors in medical electronics is likely to grow by 7 percent this year, aided by the use of disposable devices as well as respiratory monitoring, according to iSuppli, El Segundo, CA, a global leader in technology value chain research...
Features: Medical
Honorable Mentions
SwipeSense Yuri Malina and Mert Iseri Evanston, Illinois According to the Centers for Disease Control, the best way to prevent the two million annual cases of hospital-acquired infections is by increasing hand hygiene among...
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Applications: Materials
Seal Improves Life of Implantable Pump, and of Patient
When engineers at a Swiss medical device company began designing an implantable low-flow pump to treat the condition known as ascites, or peritoneal cavity fluid, they knew they were on the...
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