Refocusing Answers Market Demands

TOP: Sealing to IP67, which is standard for use in demanding medical environments, is also standard on the Hypertronic HG connector line. BOTTOM: Coaxial and/or fiber optic contact options for high frequency and high-speed medical imaging applications deliver continual reliability.

In the constant quest to improve, develop, and bring to market, solutions that are at the forefront of innovative interconnect technology, engineers at Hypertronics have mounted a campaign of in-depth research designed to examine the unfolding needs of the marketplace. In short, the company has made a concerted effort to listen closely to the evolving needs of the customer within the medical device market.

Speaking with those involved in this, there is a clear message they want to get out to their customers. They like to think that one of the things that differentiate Hypertronics apart from the rest of the competitive pack is their capacity to really listen to what their customers are saying about their wants and needs, not them telling customers what they need.

The result of listening to customers and their needs is the introduction of an enhanced and more comprehensive version of Hypertronics’ HG connector line. A version that speaks to the needs of the market and addresses the unique interconnect demands and requirements of customers through enhanced capabilities and additional solutions. In addition, the company’s new HG line is available at a very competitive price. The bottom line is that the latest innovation in the company’s HG series now offers customers a standard line of products configured their way.

Features, Benefits
So what are the features and benefits found in Hypertronics rollout of the HG series?

To start with, the design continues along its already successful path of addressing medical industry requirements, with the standard HG line offering:

1. Plastic outer bodies are lighter weight and provide insulation for patient protection

2. Push-pull mating for quick and easy use in fast-paced medical environments

3. A design, providing an aesthetic appearance on medical equipment

4. Smooth contours that facilitate ease of cleaning and eliminate sharp corners, which have the potential to tear surgical gloves

5. Sealing to IP67, which is standard for use in demanding medical environments

6. Materials that meet medical sterilization and cleaning requirements, including Autoclaving, Gamma, EtO, and Sterrad

7. Color-coding in five standard colors to distinguish between similar connections

8. Customer configurable keying to prevent mis-mating

9. Plug design that provides standard silicone bend relief or which can be over-molded to the cable

10. Crimp contacts, shipped loose, are standard for simpler and faster termination, to lower the cost of cable assembly; compared to soldering fine gauge wires into a tightly packed nest of solder tails as is standard in competitive products

11. Contacts are finger-proof per IEC60601 standard

New capabilities of the enhanced HG line include:

1. Reliability up to at least 20K mating cycles, far surpassing competitive product offerings and imparting a safety margin over typical medical requirements of 5,000 to 10,000 mating cycles

2. Coaxial and/or fiber optic contact options for high frequency and high speed medical imaging applications

3. Full 360° internal metal shielding option, within the plastic body, to protect sensitive medical devices from harmful EMI and RFI interference

In the final analysis, medical customers have a broad range of choices in circular plastic connectors. This said, Hypertronics’ enhanced HG series delivers all of the features required for use on critical medical equipment, and the line does this with more reliability to the customer in a competitively priced, aesthetically pleasing, easy to use, plastic circular connector.

The HG connector series serves as a tangible proof-point that Hypertronics is an interconnect solutions provider that is listening to its customers.

Hypertronics Corp. (now owned by Smiths Interconnect)
https://www.smithsinterconnect.com/