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Products: Medical
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: Materials
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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
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
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: Medical
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...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In spring 2008, Dr. Scott Dulchavsky diagnosed high-altitude pulmonary edema in a climber over 20,000 feet up the slope of Mount Everest. Dulchavsky made...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
You may have heard the phrase “as difficult as walking and chewing gum” as a joking way of referring to something that is not difficult at all. Just...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The International Space Station (ISS) is falling. This is no threat to the astronauts onboard, however, because falling is part of the ISS staying in orbit.
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
On July 5, 1997, a small robot emerged from its lander like an insect from an egg, crawling out onto the rocky surface of Mars. About the size of a...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
On Earth, gravity can cause a lot of stress to a person’s bones and muscles, whether the stress is caused by running a marathon or simply climbing a...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In January 2009, birds struck the engines of US Airways Flight 1549 and forced an emergency landing into the Hudson River. Everyone on board survived,...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Beginning in 1985, a team of engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore began developing software to manage various time-consuming...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Astronauts, pilots, air traffic controllers, truck drivers, shift workers, and mountain climbers have something in common: All are at risk for impaired...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
For astronauts returning to Earth, adjusting to full gravity can be just as demanding as any of the challenges they faced in space. While readjusting to...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
While working on designs for a new high-speed aircraft, a group of software engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center developed a program that...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Researchers at the Advanced Materials and Processing Branch at Langley Research Center created a superior polyimide foam as insulation for reusable cryogenic...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Spacecraft and aerospace engines share a common threat: high temperature. The temperatures experienced during atmospheric reentry can reach over 2,000 °F,...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
While many air travelers are accustomed to rules against electronic devices during takeoff and landing, they might not be aware that these devices are banned because...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
As part of its research to make air travel safer, NASA began collaborating with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2005 to develop what...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
A small pile of PETI-330 resinous powder PETI-330 is the first resin created specifically for high-temperature composites formed with resin transfer...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates there are between 4 and 11 million cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses in the...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA intends to return people to the Moon, but this time to stay. Future plans include living quarters, scientific laboratories, a permanent lunar community, and a...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The space shuttle is unique among spacecraft in that it glides back to Earth and lands like an airplane, usually touching ground near where it launched at...
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