When designing orthopedic and medical devices, engineers often encounter the same basic challenge: they need to connect two mating surfaces in a repeatable, predictable fashion. While this may sound like a straight-forward task, there are hundreds of ways to accomplish it. Among the traditional fastening methodologies are: ball detents snap rings molded c-clamps quick...
If you’re developing an electrical connector for a defense or commercial aviation application, contact springs can help address any size, weight, and power (SWaP) consumption challenges you may face. Our Bal Spring® is at work in some of today’s most advanced land, sea, and air platforms. It has been helping designers like you achieve...
Electrical connectors often employ separate mechanical latching and EMI/RFI shielding components, which adds to their size and weight. In the presentation below, we’ll discuss how contact springs can deliver significant benefit for use in electrical connector applications by reducing size, weight and power consumption challenges. Electrical Connector Design Challenges Electrical connectors consist of a...
With the Bal Spring canted coil spring, you can achieve a higher level of protection for your semicon processing and test equipment designs, while improving yield and simplifying maintenance for your end user. Our spring lets you do more with less—effectively shielding against EMI, managing high current with low heat rise, and latching components...
In this session, originally presented on August 6, 2020 during the TechTalk segment of Informa’s BIOMEDevice virtual show, Bal Seal Engineering Business Development Director David Fogel talks about how components (including seals, springs, and contacts) represent “hidden opportunities” for performance improvement in surgical robot designs. He explores how they can be leveraged to...
As a trusted supplier to medical device makers for over 60 years, Bal Seal Engineering has the products and resources you need to scale up design and manufacture of critical respiratory care equipment—fast. Whether you’re seeking solutions for new projects or retrofitting existing platforms, our collaborative engineering process and quick-turn prototyping will help...
When you fasten parts of your retractors, fusion and fixation systems, debridement tools, joint replacement systems, and other medical instruments/devices with canted coil springs, improved cleanability and functionality can be achieved. Check out this short presentation, and learn how you can use the spring to deliver robust, reusable designs that work better. Using Canted...
Designing a Better Knee Replacement System: How Exactech “clicked” with the Bal Spring Canted Coil Spring By working with the Bal Seal Engineering team after several iterations of design, prototyping, test, and adjustment, Exactech achieved the design intent: to provide proper holding strength between the Topper and the Shim components, allowing surgeons to easily...
When designing aviation, space, and defense equipment, finding the elusive balance between low friction and sealing effectiveness is critical to maintain high equipment performance. Check out this short presentation, where we leverage more than 60 years of application engineering experience to share common design mistakes and pitfalls to avoid as you prepare to seal...
