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TECHNOLOGY LEADERS Electronics
PCB Microelectronics Assembly Takes Center
Stage for Medical Miniaturization
M
edical device engineers at the
front of the product development
process will likely soon
- if not already - be
encountering revolutionary new and different
product design, assembly, and
manufacturing considerations not dealt
with before. At the same time, these
newer, more advanced assembly and
manufacturing techniques and capabilities
allow medical OEMs to go beyond
prototyping and into pilot, medium, and
high production runs. Consequently,
medical OEMs can maintain manufacturing
in the Untied States and keep
their intellectual property (IP) safe and
secure.
Advanced and small medical electronics
- wearable, portable, implantable,
ingestible, and insertable - devices are
state of the art and at the forefront of a
new round of technology trends involving
printed circuit board (PCB) assembly
and manufacturing. Many of these
medical devices are extremely small,
often the size of a thumbnail and sometimes,
even smaller.
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US PATENT 7872667- INVENTORS; Gavriel J. Iddan, Dov Avni, Arkady Glukhovsky, Gavriel Meron
Fig. 1 - Medtronic SmartPill™ Motility Testing System. (Credit: Medtronic)
Examples of these miniaturized de -
vices include implantable defibrillators,
cardiac pacemakers, programmable
infusion pumps, continuous glucose
monitoring (CGM) devices, wellness
and emergency response safety monitoring
systems, and even smaller devices
like the so-called ingestible smart pill as
shown in Figure 1.
But It's Not Traditional PCB SMT
Assembly
A wide array of conventional medical
electronics equipment and products are
largely based on traditional PCB surface
mount technology (SMT) assembly and
manufacturing practices. However, with
the onset of miniaturized medical de -
vices, the industry is rapidly moving
toward PCB microelectronics assembly
and manufacturing to help medical
OEMs produce these newer products
(see Figure 2).
Medical miniaturization is coming to
the forefront because doctors, hospitals,
and other medical care facilities require
more functionality, increased portability,
and more robustness to upgrade out -
patient practices, surgical procedures,
and mobile monitoring equipment.
Moreover, these highly advanced devices
operating directly with the human body
are driving the need for greater medical
miniaturization.
A PCB microelectronics assembly line
fitted with a number of efficient operations
must be able to deal with this
Fig. 2 - PCB microelectronics cleanroom and assembly.
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Medical Design Briefs - September 2021 - Intro
Medical Design Briefs - September 2021 - Cov3
Medical Design Briefs - September 2021 - Cov1a
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Medical Design Briefs - September 2021 - Cov1
Medical Design Briefs - September 2021 - Cov2
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