Selecting cables and connectors for your medical device

Fischer Connectors’ solutions suited for medical devices include several types of connectors and associated cables (from left): Fischer Core Series Brass, Plastic, Disposable, Fischer MiniMax Series, and the Fischer Freedom Series. [Photo courtesy of Fischer Connectors]

Connectivity for safety and performance is a complex consideration when designing modern medical equipment.

David Ptacek, Fischer Connectors

In patient care settings from surgical to imaging and diagnostics, therapeutics and patient self-care, the use of medical electronic equipment is ubiquitous and continues to grow. Advanced technology featured in new equipment and devices is bringing about ever more innovation to benefit patient experience and outcomes.

Such new designs typically need to integrate connectivity solutions: cables, connectors and electronics. Even though it may seem straightforward, connectivity today is a complex en…

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Junkosha touts cable product innovations to enable ‘intelligent’ catheters

Junkosha Multi-Filar Cable (left) and Junkosha Multi-Channel Transmission Cable (MCT) (right) [Images courtesy of Junkosha]

Junkosha officials think the company’s Junkosha Multi-Filar Cable and Junkosha Multi-Channel Transmission Cable (MCT) could bring the medical device industry closer to “intelligent” catheters.

The increasingly sophisticated catheters — small and flexible — can better send diagnostic signals into the body or provide therapy, according to Mike Winterling, VP of business development at Junkosha USA. (Winterling wrote a description of the products for Medical Tubing + Extrusion and Medical Design & Outsourcing.)

“Solutions such as the Junkosha Multi-Filar Cable and Junkosha Multi-Channel Transmission Cable (MCT) represent a breakthrough in the design of medical device cables that take us one step closer on the journey to the next generation of these important devices,” Winterling sa…

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