What are the applications of piezoelectric ceramics in the medical device industry

Piezoelectric ceramics are often used in the field of biomedicine for their wear resistance, long life and biocompatibility, but it is more than that. It is concluded that piezoelectric ceramics have great prospects in the medical device industry.

In recent years, the medical device industry has continuously increased the demand for smaller and more portable devices to cope with the various challenges faced by the medical industry. "This development is due to the need to reduce healthcare costs by performing more treatments and procedures in clinics and homes rather than in hospitals. Many clinics do not have the full disinfection capabilities of general hospitals, which means that equipment and instruments may have to be one-time sexual. Similarly, home-use drug delivery systems must be portable and have a lower design cost."

Among them, medical piezoelectric ceramics, as the core components of ultrasonic technology sensors and transducers, are widely used in different medical equipment, such as dialysis machines, infusion pumps, surgical cutting and drilling instruments, dental scalers, ultrasonic treatments (such as gravel, atomization, emulsification, cleaning) etc.

Piezoelectric ceramic used for ultrasonic sensor of bubble detection in dialysis and other intravenous treatments

Piezoelectric ceramics are used for mechanical cell lysis and homogenization of high-power ultrasound transducers for molecular diagnosis or high-frequency ultrasound therapy

Piezoelectric ceramics application are used for pump parts, valves and seals for liquid transportation

Piezoelectric ceramics are used for pump parts, valves and seals for liquid transportation

Other series of medical equipment applications

Other applications of piezo ceramics transducer include, for example, nebulizers, endoscopy, liquid level sensing, ultrasonic transducers for precision surgical scalpels (tissue aspiration and crushing), and applications of ultrasonic sensors in imaging and fetal doppler monitoring and many more.

"Smaller medical equipment means that ultrasonic sensors and transducers must fit in smaller and smaller spaces and complex geometries. We use advanced computer numerical models to ensure this to predict the performance of new designs. "Important Yes, as the geometry shrinks, careful control of piezoelectric ceramic materials and manufacturing is essential. We strictly manage these processes in-house, and are one of the few companies in the world that have internally manufactured initial piezoelectric ceramics to the final sensor or one of the companies that controls the assembly process of transducers. "