Medical, Healthcare & Wellness

July 2017

Maxim's Dual Channel Transceiver Adopted by Omron for IO-Link Sensor Applications

San Jose, CA and Tokyo, Japan — Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. announced that its MAX14827A dual IO-Link transceiver has been adopted by Omron Corporation. The high-performing device from Maxim, which utilizes IO-Link sensors to reduce maintenance and increase uptime, provides continuous diagnostics and monitoring at

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07/27/2017

Special Bearings Serve Electric Motors, MRIs, Electric Traction Motors in Railroad Applications

BOSTON, MA… Emerson Bearing Boston announces an expanded line of bearings for electric motors, medical equipment such as magnetic resonance imagers (MRIs) and other "high voltage" applications. Bearings for Electrically Charged, Severe Environments Electrical current can be incredibly damag

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07/27/2017

Galvanic isolation between the high-voltage and low-voltage sides.

Maximum Efficiency for Inverters

Wolfgang Rambow, Senior Director Reference Design EPCOS, a TDK Group Company

TDK has joined forces with Infineon Technologies to develop a design for xEV inverters that achieves a very high efficiency of over 98 percent over a power range of 10 kW to 150 kW. This success has been achieved by matching of the Infineon IGBT module and the EPCOS and TDK passive components. The new Infin

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07/25/2017

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Interference-free cabling

Interference-free cabling

Martin Tenhumberg and Werner Wölfle, Traco Power

Long lines for distributed loads can emit and be susceptible to interference which can affect the connected loads. However, the loads work without disruption as long as a few basic rules are observed when it comes to cabling. Moderndevices and systems are generally complex, their electrical/electronic components

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07/22/2017

Wuerth Elektronik and FELA collaborating on research into new technology

Despite current stability and positive sales growth in the circuit board indus-try, it must be presumed that consolidation has not yet come to an end. Circuit board manufacturers are facing enormous price erosion caused by Asian circuit boards, as well as rising manufacturing costs in Europe and generally intense g

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07/21/2017

Hook-Up Wire Offers Exceptionally Wide Temperature Range

Exceptionally thin and lightweight, Alpha Wire’s new ThermoThin Hook-Up Wire offers outstanding performance for a wide range of demanding applications and environments. ThermoThin is now available from Aerco, the distributor and stockist of electrical and electronic components servicing hi-rel markets. ThermoThin Ho

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07/17/2017

Pressure Sensor Designed for Medical, Automotive, and Industrial Applications

Andover, Massachusetts- MEMSIC Inc. announced the launch of its MDP200 Bi-Directional Differential Pressure Sensor for CPAP, breath detection, room pressure, damper control, flow hood, fume hood, filter monitoring and other applications where ultra-low differential pressure performance is required. Currently sampling,

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07/11/2017

Applying Electric Current to Nerve for Chronic Low Back Pain Does not Provide Clinically Important Improvement

The JAMA Network Journals

In three randomized trials, treatment of chronic low back pain with radiofrequency denervation, a procedure that can be performed with different techniques including the application of an electric current to the pain-conducting nerve, resulted in either no improvement or no clinically important improvement in ch

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07/03/2017