Watlow® Thermal Solutions For Medical And Clinical Applications INNOVATIVE THERMAL SOLUTIONS FOR MEDICAL AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS emperature continues to play an important role T in the development of new medical equipment, biotechnology and clinical diagnostic instrumentation. With 50 years’ experience in the Life Science industries, Watlow® is a leader in breaking new ground in designing, manufacturing and supporting innovative thermal solutions to meet medical advancements and new industry requirements. Leading medical equipment manufacturers rely on Watlow solutions for their patient care equipment, surgical devices and biotechnology and clinical diagnostic instrument application needs. WATLOW THERMAL SOLUTIONS DELIVER BENEFITS THAT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE: ■ Greater temperature responsiveness ■ Accurate temperature control of critical processes ■ Low leakage current compliance ■ Reduced cost, space and device weight ■ Superior temperature measurement ■ Lower heater mass and temperature uniformity ■ Faster processing times ■ Reduction in moving parts ■ Product miniaturization ■ Set up simplification GLOBAL THERMAL LEADERSHIP ith a reputation for delivering dedicated global resources will deliver W expert application knowledge, an on-time, cost-effective solution to global manufacturing capabilities, meet your requirements, wherever exceptional technical support and and whenever needed. We realize that service, Watlow is a preferred and there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution. trusted partner with leading medical You can count on the collective equipment manufacturers. As a global knowledge of Watlow’s global team WE ASK THE company, we support international of more than 400 consultative sales design guidelines, compliance and agents, field engineers, product RIGHT QUESTIONS agency approvals including RoHS, specialists and system engineers W.E.E.E, CE and UL®. From routine to offer a choice of solutions that fit TO DELIVER THE customer issues to engineering and the intended use for your particular technical problem solving, Watlow’s medical device application. BEST SOLUTION Designing the best heater solution requires technical understanding of thermal CHOOSE THE RigHT PARTNER requirements and business acumen to best service your hether it is redesigning existing cycle. Watlow has a proven track application needs. Technical W equipment to extend product record in producing high volume, questions we will address life or developing a custom assembly complex heaters and assemblies and during the conversation with a design for new equipment, we will a worldwide presence to leverage ask the right questions to solve your our vast market knowledge across device engineer include: problem quickly and correctly. borders. ■ What is the application? ■ We can complement your team at any Partner with Watlow and take Is the device heating air, gas, fluid or solid material? project stage from concept to quick advantage of our broad selection of prototyping and throughout heaters, sensors and controllers– ■ What is the process your product’s life designed to work together temperature? for optimal efficiency ■ What is the temperature ramp and long life. rate? ■ What are the dimensional requirements? ■ Are there any known material compatibility issues? ■ Are there any voltage limitations? ■ Are there any special agency approval requirements? ■ What is the heater life expectancy? ■ Where is the sensor located? ■ How is the system monitored and controlled? ■ What is the expected life cycle of the device? Medical and Clinical Thermal Solutions - 1 THERMAL SOLUTIONS FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND PATIENT CARE lectric heaters and subassemblies into the body, stabilize equipment Eenhance the operation of various performance, enhance surgical types of medical, patient care and procedures, sterilize instruments and clinical diagnostic equipment. for many other applications. Patient safety is critical in equipment Injecting warmed fluids into a and heater design. Safety patient in post-operative recovery considerations include electrical can increase body temperature and (low leakage current), touch safe comfort while accelerating recovery. characteristics and thermal stability. Watlow’s flexible, cartridge and Medical and diagnostic devices ULTRAMIC® heaters monitor and WatLOW THERMAL are covered by several regulatory control thermal and other processes organizations including FDA, UL® and that are critical to ensuring patient SOLUTIONS ARE CE. Watlow heaters are engineered safety and well being by keeping body and manufactured for compliance with temperature close to 37°C (98.6°F). DESIGNED TO SOLVE medical equipment, mechanical and electrical isolation requirements and YOUR MEDICAL commonly include on-board monitors AND CLINICAL and safety limit controllers. Watlow designs heaters and thermal APPLICatION NEEDS subassemblies to incubate cultures, add warm humidity to respiratory ■ Anesthesia delivery systems equipment, heat fluids before injection ■ Blood and intravenous (IV) fluid warmers ■ Transfusion equipment ■ Syringe contrast media heating ■ Bloodless surgical procedures ■ Hemodialysis and kidney dialysis machines ■ Infant warmers and incubators ■ Insufflators ■ Lithotripters ■ Oxygen sensor electrodes ■ Respiratory therapy devices (humidifiers, nebulizers and ventilators) ■ Thermal ablation instruments ■ Hypothermia (warming blankets) ■ Wound therapy systems ■ Cyrotherapeutic chambers ■ Apheresis equipment 2 - Medical and Clinical Thermal Solutions THERMAL SOLUTIONS FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT AND CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENTATION iotechnology equipment and The need for greater throughput at Bdevices are used to extract, less cost has been met with smaller replicate, amplify and sequence devices that can turn tests quickly DNA from genes. Clinical diagnostic at a reduced cost. Meeting this instruments are used in hospitals, need drives tighter requirements clinics, commercial laboratories and for temperature accuracy and test sites to perform tests on human repeatability. Watlow’s design team blood and other body fluids. will work closely with your engineers BIOTECHNOLOGY to develop thermal assemblies with Watlow has developed high precision modular design concepts that reduce AND CLINICAL heater and controller solutions for design time and costs, and provide biotechnology equipment and clinical logistics support for the final product. DIAGNOSTIC diagnostic instrument applications when a uniform operating temperature EQUIPMENT at or near a body temperature of 37°C (98.6°F) is required for THat INTEGratE effective application performance. Some applications, including cell WatLOW THERMAL incubation and sterilization, may require higher temperatures. SOLUTIONS Precise temperature is a ■ Blood gas analyzers critical factor for most ■ biotechnology and Clinical chemistry analyzers clinical applications ■ Coagulation analyzers where incubation and ■ Genetic analyzers for DNA transfer of fluids is sequencing required as part of a ■ Hematology analyzers process. ■ Hybridization ovens ■ Immunoassay analyzers ■ Integrated systems analyzers ■ In-vitro diagnostics (IVD) ■ Lab-on-a-chip thermal systems ■ Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ■ Thermal cyclers Medical and Clinical Thermal Solutions - 3 CEraMIC HEatERS ULTRAMIC® ADVANCED CERAMIC HEATERS FEatURES AND LTRAMIC® advanced ceramic A very low leakage current, as low as Uheaters are designed for 1μA even at standard line voltages, BENEFITS medical devices and clinical can eliminate the need for step-down applications where electrical safety, isolation transformers or low-voltage HIGH DIELECTRIC STRENGTH small size, fast temperature ramp power supplies which add size, weight ■ Delivers superior electrical rates and cleanliness are critical. and cost to the system. Applications such as respiratory performance Available in a variety of miniature therapy equipment, clinical diagnostic ■ Ensures low leakage current shapes and sizes, fast responding instrumentation and DNA analysis < 10µA at 500VAC and 100°C ULTRAMIC heaters feature watt are an ideal match for ULTRAMIC’s (212°F) densities, up to 1000 W/in2 capabilities. ■ Enables high breakdown voltage (155 W/cm2) and deliver operating >2000VDC Constructed using aluminum nitride temperatures as high as 600°C (AlN), ULTRAMIC advanced ceramic (1112°F) for optimal performance and ROBUST ALUMINUM NITRIDE (AlN) heaters incorporate a proprietary equipment effectiveness. CERAMIC CONSTRUCTION heating element to provide maximum ■ Provides a clean, non- performance and long life in contaminating heat source demanding applications. The robust ■ Offers homogeneous assembly ceramic construction creates a clean, with no open porosity for non-contaminating heat source atmospheric or vacuum that is resistant to chemical applications attack and moisture ingress. HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND WATT DENSITIES ■ Enables ultra-fast temperature ramp rate of up to 150°C (270°F) per second ■ Provides uniform temperatures across the heater’s surface ■ Allows for quick cool down TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE INTEGRATED WITH ASSEMBLY ■ Provides process control or high limit safety protection ■ Improves accuracy with optimized temperature sensing ■ Delivers a high response rate in Watlow ramping applications ULTRAMIC advanced GENCY RECOGNITION AND A ceramic heaters SAFETY COMPLIANCE provide maximum performance and ® ■ UL long life when ■ CE patient safety and cleanliness are ■ RoHS application critical. 4 - Medical and Clinical Thermal Solutions CartrIDGE HEatERS FIREROD® CARTRIDGE HEATERS atlow’s