April 1, 2009
Features
Surface treatments for wettability and stickability
Advanced surface treatment techniques such as air plasma, flame plasma, and chemical plasma discharges are playing key roles in the design and development...
Putting the rapid into injection molding
Building prototypes with additive methods such as sterolithography and fused deposition modeling has been a hot topic lately and rightly so. But for parts...
Working with foreign patent preparers can be trouble
Officials at the U.S. Patent and Technology Office (USPTO) recently began reminding the domestic patent community that foreign filing licenses do not...
Editorial
What would you say to FDA Commish?
President Obama recently announced Margaret Hamburg as his choice for FDA commissioner. Hamburg is former New York City health commissioner, while newly...
Articles
Rapid 2009 emphasizes medical
North America's largest annual rapid manufacturing conference and exposition, The Rapid Conference & Exposition (sme.org/rapid), set for May 11-14 at...
Machine vision focuses on eye disease
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, have borrowed a machine-vision technique used to find defects in ICs to seek out retinal...
Pressure sensor inserts into femoral artery
An implant now under development could include a blood pressure sensor, about 1-mm dia. including its casing, that takes measurements about 30 times per...
No stimulus for you
What a great time to talk about the recent stimulus package - tax month. It took me about a year to get through the 1,200 pages of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged,...
FDA To Study BPA's Impact
The FDA has initiated two studies to determine whether plastic components might be leaching BPA a common chemical used in many everyday plastic items...
Ablation Catheters Get Go-Ahead For Atrial Fibrillation Treatment
The FDA approved the first ablation catheters for treatment of atrial fibrillation (uncoordinated contractions of the upper heart chambers), one of the...
OCD Patients May See New Treatment with Implantable Device
Patients may soon be able to access a new form of treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), with the recent approval by the FDA of a humanitarian...
Jabil launches single-use device business
Electronics-maker Jabil, St. Petersburg, FL, (jabil.com) announced its single-use device (SUD) business. With about 85,000 employees at facilities in...
Name change reflects melt-extrusion focus
To reflect its core competency in melt extrusion and markets served, Foster Pharma, a business unit of Foster Corp, Putnam, CT, (fostercorporation.com)...
ATEK Medical Opens In Costa Rica
Atek Medical, a division of Atek Companies, San Jose, CA, (atekcompanies.com) opened its Costa Rica facility. The 33,000-sq.-ft. plant specializes in...
EDM for medical extrusion and injection-molding machinery
Electrical discharge machining (EDM), which metal from a work piece with a series of electrical sparks that precisely shape the material into simple or...
CANopen turns robot into surgical assistant
A typical robot includes a manipulator, user interface, tracker and registration system, and a controller. These components have many of the same network...
Engineering latex for fewer allergies
Up to 17% of healthcare workers and 1% of the general population are allergic to latex, according to the American Latex Allergy Association (ALAA). Latex...
Human tissue modeling focuses on inside out (and bottom) challenge
Bedsores aka pressure sores aka pressure ulcers, continue to slow the healing process for bedridden patients. (For purposes of this article, pressure...
Inside story on quoting tubes
Everyone wants a low figure for a piece-part tube or component, but after relaying a few dimensions they may absentmindedly omit that the tube must be...
Student designers show off a low-cost prosthetic hand
Although medical prosthesis are expensive, device designers in developed nations can afford not to scrimp because government subsidies pay much of the...
Letting a robot handle the biopsy
A robotic device is expected to improve patient comfort and lung-biopsy accuracy. Currently, a lung biopsy calls for a surgeon to inserts a needle into...
Pumps & Valves
High flows in miniature device Ultra-miniature, single-stage diaphragm pressure regulators are designed for high flows. PRDHF is a 10-32 ported, non-relieving...
Products & Services
Scanner inspects internal details of small molded parts Inspection equipment and its software significantly reduces the time and expense usually needed...
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