Medical
Medical applications present unique design and performance challenges. Examples include the rate responsive heart pacemaker and defibrillator, which are implantable devices that create an appropriate pacing rate and charge response proportional to the patient’s level of physical activity and the heartbeat pattern. High reliability, repeatability and very small package size are key criteria for acceleration sensors in these applications. Since 1996, over 5 million Endevco accelerometers have been used in the majority of pacing devices manufactured globally, to provide the data needed to improve the quality of life for these patients.

Internal R&D advances in sensor manufacturing techniques and material properties have opened up several new markets for Endevco acceleration and pressure sensing devices, including external and implanted drug therapy systems, implanted pain management devices, and methods to accurately measure Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The ability to offer piezoelectric, self generating sensor technologies, and silicon-based MEMS sensor technologies, places Endevco in a market leading position as new medical procedures evolve which require sensor enabled solutions.