Heatsinks For Medical Devices

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As a global leader in thermal management solutions, Cooliance designs and manufactures high-efficiency heatsinks for the medical equipment market.

Reliability is pivotal to the success of electronic medical equipment: failure is not an option when a patient's life depends on the successful operation of a medical device.

There is a direct correlation between the thermal efficiency of an electronic device and its life expectancy. The 'cooler' we can keep the operating temperature of a device its reliability, service life, and above all, safety will increase.

There are many design considerations when designing the thermal management system for a device:

• Weight: will a patient wear the device? If so, the weight of the system will have a higher significance.
• Dust: active cooling will move dust particles into the device, challenging its reliability or blow dust particles into the environment.
• Battery Life: active cooling will shorten a battery's life expectancy
• Redundant systems: heat pipes can transfer waste heat energy to an external cooler
• Touch temperature: will the device run at a temperature that is comfortable to the human hand?
• Ruggedization: can the device and its thermal management solution stand up to the demands of daily use?
• Ambient noise: is the thermal management solution run quietly enough not to disturb a patient at night at a technician working in a lab

Cooliance offers the following thermal management technologies for medical device applications:

• Liquid-Cooled Cold Plates
• Passive Heatsinks
• Heatpipes
• Forced Air Heatsinks