Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Designer and producer of stepper motor-based linear actuators, leadscrew and linear rail assemblies and slides, rotary stepper motors and sealed switches, HaydonKerk Motion Solutions (Coueron, France) has introduced its 3500-series double-stack captive hybrid linear actuators. The linear actuators are fitted with an internal antirotation mechanism for applications where external antirotation ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Suited for applications that require fast dynamic motion without sudden changes in acceleration, a motion controller works equally well with traditional stepper motors and piezoelectric devices. The TMC457 controller developed by Trinamic Motion Control (Hamburg, Germany) generates linear and s-shaped acceleration and braking ramps.
The device accepts digital quadrature signals from ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Available from Applied Plastics, a PTFE coating for kink-resistant nitinol and stainless-steel tubing is suited for cardiovascular applications. The lubricious coating does not interfere with nitinol’s kink-resistance characteristics. Tubing with an OD as small as 0.002 in. can be processed. Suitable for guidewires, catheters, needles and other devices, the PTFE coating can be applied with coating tolerances ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Guyson International Ltd, Surface Finishing Div. offers a range of surface-finishing equipment for dental implant manufacturers extending from manually operated benchtop blast cabinets to production-oriented automated blast systems. Its compact Formula 1200 benchtop cabinet for the dental laboratory is suited for the cleaning and deburring of root-form orthodontic implants and ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
An abrasive blaster available from specialist in microabrasive surface treatment equipment for medical devices Comco Inc. is suitable for processing dental implants. The AccuFlo blaster, available in 115- and 230-V CE-compliant models, can be used to roughen the smooth finish on the threaded portion of an implant, thereby increasing the surface area on which tissue can take ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
A laser marking system offers medical device manufacturers a configurable technology suitable for marking applications both on the production line and in the laboratory. Developed by Rofin/Baasel Lasertech, the Cube is a platform for the integration of various laser sources, including solid-state, fibre and diode lasers, with an array of available ...
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