Precision sawing and polishing machines and supplies for fast, convenient and accurate processing of medical devices, including bare fibers, endoscopes, and fiberlights. Optical and surface forming on optic, metallic and polymeric materials.
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Precision sawing and polishing machines and supplies for fast, convenient and accurate processing of medical devices, including bare fibers, endoscopes, and fiberlights. Optical and surface forming on optic, metallic and polymeric materials. |
LAPPING & POLISHING Medical devices such as endoscopes, arthroscopes and many others require controlled transmission of light for success in their end use. ULTRA TEC’s equipment achieves the highest quality polished surfaces on optic, electro-optic and fiber optic components. Finished components are typically required to pass high or low power laser energy to a surgical or sensor interface. Workpieces used in medical devices vary widely in size, shape and encapsulation type (often the components are bare fibers , sometimes held in rigid or flexible handpieces). This means high versatility is required from the processing equipment, coupled with high flexibility and convenience of use, to accommodate the needs of R&D, up to high production throughputs of (often) many thousands of components per month. (Also see BARE FIBER Page) ULTRAPOL polishers have become standard products in the medical device industry, meeting all the criteria specified above. ULTRA TEC has worked with many medical device manufacturers; from initially ‘developing a process’, in supplying custom workholder designs and offering technical advice in process-route optimization; right up to providing on-going technical and consumables support after customers’ ‘FDA Approval’ (with the ensuing ramp-up of production schedules). For details of a typical application, click here. For achievement of optical flatness on larger components, MULTIPOL machines provide an unsurpassed holding mechanism for components up 4 inches in diameter.
INTEGRATED APPROACH Increasingly, for medical fiber applications, the process optimization stage for producing maximized outputs and the most reproducible finishes within the cutting and polishing process route, calls for the use of an ULTRASLICE The Saws accept the same ‘quick release’ workholders as used in subsequent lapping and polishing operations on an ULTRAPOL. Through experience it has been determined that a single saw can equip two or three polishers, with highly reproducible, high-yield, workpiece surfaces. This can eliminate one or even two polishing steps.
OTHER APPLICATIONS The frequent custom needs and applications of medical researchers means that highly versatile equipment is needed to accomplish many preparation steps on a single system Click Here for more details of the use of ULTRASLICE 6000 in a typical ‘difficult’ application
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