Applications

Providing Exceptional Engineering Assistance
for Motion System Design

Medical device applications demand high performance at an efficient price. Motor drives provide a means for achieving this performance.

· Compact and lightweight
· High torque
· Accurate
· Reliable and robust
· Low inertia

Advanced technologies provide tomorrow's performance today. Hardware alone isn't enough. MICROMO provides customization, flexibility, integration assistance and full testing and analysis capabilities.

Medical applications are just one of many that require drive systems with benchmark technology that can achieve and exceed demanding requirements.

Portable Infusion Pump

Motion Control Drives Portable Infusion Pump

When the U.S. Army went looking for a compact, portable field unit that could run at rates of 100 mL/min, Infusion Dynamics (now Zoll Medical Corp.) turned to motion control and efficient, high-torque motors from MicroMo to provide the answer.

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Prosthetic Leg

High-Tech Solutions Deliver Improved Quality of Life

Lightweight micromotors, combined with intelligent control technology, offer the chance to walk in a way that feels very similar to natural movement - providing clear benefits for users in terms of both safety and comfort.

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Servo Motors Power Automation of Pharmaceutical Dispensing

Leveraging high-efficiency, high-torque motors from MicroMo, the ScriptPro family of dispensing robots is fast, robust, compact, and efficient enough to operate off of a single wall plug - local pharmacy lines could soon be a thing of the past.

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Surgery Assistant

Micro-Precise Surgical Guidance Assistance

A miniature, high precision hexapod with 6 DOF is used as guidance assistance for spinal surgery. The bone-mounted system, named SpineAssist, is powered with six of Faulhaber's DC brushless smoovy® gear motors with custom drive electronics...

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Perfect Focus

Head-mounted vision system for medicine and industry sets new standards using our Miniature stepper motors. Miniature stepper motors control magnification and focus for each eye.

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High-precision bearings and actuators for micromechanics

Micromechanics and microengineering are synonymous with advanced technology geared to the future...The bearings of the microlinea® range allow linear movements with low friction.

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Medical Diagnostics Application

Massive savings can be achieved by using state-of-the-art laboratory analysis systems...STRATEC Biomedical Systems AG plans, develops and produces fully automated analysis systems designed specifically for use in clinical-diagnostic laboratories.

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Nerve Recording Electrodes

Nerve Recording Electrodes

Miniature motors are playing a key part in measuring nerve cells for developing new therapies for things like Parkinson's disease.

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Laser Skin Resurfacing

Laser Skin Resurfacing

Laser skin resurfacing is one of the fastest growing application areas for medical lasers. When aesthetic laser manufacturer Cutera, Inc. began to develop an innovative new skin-resurfacing laser called the Pearl, their engineers turned to motors from MICROMO.

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Robotic Biopsy System

Robotic Biopsy System

MIT team builds a robotic biopsy system with unprecedented accuracy and efficency with compact, high-torque motors from MICROMO

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