Application

Power supplies for medical devices

60601-1
Medical safety we design to
Type B / BF
Patient applied-part types
24/7
Continuous & uninterruptible duty

If you develop medical equipment, the power supply is rarely the easy part. You've probably run into:

  • Patient-safety isolation and leakage you can't get wrong: type B or BF, with tight leakage limits.
  • It powers something that can't fail mid-use, like ventilation or continuous therapy.
  • It has to keep running when the mains drops, or where there's no mains at all.
  • A surgical or dental handpiece needs a high motor peak, but near-zero standby between uses.
  • It must hold a high dielectric-strength isolation barrier.

How we solve it

We design the supply around your device and the safety it has to meet:

  • Isolation and leakage to your device class: designs built to type B or BF isolation, with leakage current held well within the limits your class requires.
  • Continuous, uninterrupted duty: supplies engineered to run continuously, including uninterruptible designs with back-up for when the mains drops or isn't available.
  • Peak power with low standby: headroom for the high peak of a surgical or dental brushless motor, with low standby consumption between uses.
  • High dielectric strength: isolation barriers designed to the dielectric-strength levels medical safety calls for, such as the 4 kV of EN 60601.
  • Engineered to medical safety and EMC: every design is developed to IEC/EN 60601-1 and the EMC standards your market needs.

Designs we've built for medical equipment

A few of the designs we've built for medical equipment, each engineered to one client's device. Yours would be developed to its applied-part type and the standard it must meet.

Designed to current medical standards

Each new design is built to the medical standards your devices must meet now, and we track them as they change. As your development partner we also flag where your specification could be stronger. The supplies shown here were built for specific devices; yours would be developed to where the field stands today, and where it is heading.