client Client confidential
project Portable medical unit
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Creactive Design was involved in the design development of a compact, portable medical unit for use by non-medical trained personnel in remote medical emergency situations, which will communicate with a central medical centre in real time. Potential areas of use would be aviation and maritime sectors as well as military and paramedics. A range of bought-in sensors and probes, measuring blood pressure, pulse, oximetry, temperature and ECG, can be connected to medical unit.
The key considerations for the product were that it should be handheld and intuitive to use. The case work should be sealed to IP 67 rating, rugged and withstand a drop test of 1 metre onto concrete floor.
A number of manufacturing techniques were used to ensure the product was suitable for volume production and the final product was of a high quality and met all of the key considerations. Twin shot injection mouldings make up the main casework components, with the rubber overmould being used to create sealed buttons, seals between casework parts and forming grip areas at each side. Ultrasonic welding processes were also used to ensure water tight seals between certain casework plastic components. Moulded-in metal threaded inserts ensured high clamping forces could be achieved between the main casework parts when screwed together to help achieve the IP67 rating.
