The present disclosure provides systems and methods for assembling a subassembly for use in manufacturing an implantable device header. A method includes placing a first split web into a top platen, placing a second split web into a bottom platen, placing a conductor assembly and an antenna assembly in the bottom platen on top of the second split web, compressing the top and bottom platens together, heating the top and bottom platens until a predetermined temperature and a predetermined pressure are reached, such that first split web is fused to the second split web to form the subassembly, separating the top and bottom platens, and removing the formed subassembly.

A method of manufacturing a medical component includes preparing a first sheet of an elastomeric material, arranging at least one electronic device in the first sheet of elastomeric material to obtain an elastomeric preform, and arranging the elastomeric preform in a mold and molding the elastomeric preform therein to cure the elastomeric material and form the medical component having the at least one electronic device embedded therein.

Exclusion devices for anatomical structures, and related instruments and related methods, are disclosed. An exclusion device for an anatomical structure may include a first beam, a second beam, and/or a first spring operatively coupled to the first beam and the second beam to exert a closing force on the first beam and the second beam. The first spring may be generally U-shaped and/or may include a first end portion and a second end portion generally opposite a connecting portion.

In one aspect, the present application provides a method for fabricating shell-shaped dental appliance, comprising: generating a first 3D digital model representing an assembly of a support and a shell-shaped dental appliance, where the support has a first surface that conforms to and clings to a second surface of the shell-shaped dental appliance; and using the first 3D digital model to control a device to discharge successive drops of at least one fluid phase and solidifiable appliance material and successive drops of at least one fluid phase and solidifiable support material to form the assembly slice by slice along a first direction.

A method of forming an orthodontic aligner from an aligner digital model, the method comprising the steps of: three-dimensionally printing an intermediate structure comprising fused filaments from a biocompatible thermoplastic according to the aligner digital model via fused deposition modelling; coating the intermediate structure with a biocompatible translucent photopolymer; and irradiating the coating with ultraviolet light to cure the coating on the intermediate structure, thereby forming the orthodontic aligner.

The present disclosure relates to a casting device for producing a potting for a gas exchanger and a method for producing such a potting. Accordingly, a casting device is proposed for producing a potting for a gas exchanger under the influence of a centrifugal force, comprising a distributor comprising an opening and at least one continuous channel and adapted to receive a fluid potting material via the opening and to guide it via the at least one channel. The casting device further comprises a cassette defining an inner cavity for receiving gas exchanger elements and which is fluidly connected to the at least one channel. The distributor comprises at least two distributor components which, in the assembled state of the distributor, define the opening, are connected to one another in a leak-proof manner, and form the at least one channel between adjacent regions.

A high throughput, efficient, and simplified unloading and packaging systems and methods for large-scale production of pharmaceutical units (104) using additive manufacturing. The systems and methods may unload, inspect, package, and trace pharmaceutical units, produced by an additive manufacturing system (900), that are not damaged or deformed. The unloading and packaging system can include one or more unloading and packaging devices (100). The unloading and packaging device can include a modular configuration having modules. Individual modules to be arranged in any relative order, at any location, and with any number in the unloading and packaging device. The flexibility of the modular configuration allows one or more modules to be removed or added at any given time due to, e.g., expansion, downsizing, module repair, module upgrades, etc. High throughput can be achieved by operating unloading and packaging devices independently.

An endoscope including a bending section, a control device, at least one steering wire, a distal tip part including an exterior housing including a circumferentially extending side wall with a proximal opening, a camera assembly positioned in an interior cavity of the exterior housing, and an interior housing part positioned in the exterior housing, wherein a distal segment of the at least one steering wire is fixed to a wire portion of the interior housing part so that manipulation of the control device causes bending of the bending section.

A method for producing a head part of an implantable medical device is described, with a head part housing, which has a recess in the form of a blind hole, along which at least one electrically conducting contact ring element, together with an electrically insulating, elastically deformable sealing ring, are joined together in a force fit in a coaxial arrangement and an axial serial sequence under an axial joining force. The method is characterized in that the generation of the joining force between the at least one contact ring element and the sealing ring is executed along the assembly tool by use of means of attachment fitted on both sides of the at least one contact ring element and the sealing ring along the assembly tool, of which at least one means of attachment is axially movably and detachably fixed in an axially secure manner to the assembly tool.

The invention relates to a sealing device for repair of cardiac and vascular defects or tissue opening such as a patent foramen ovale (PFO) or shunt in the heart, the vascular system, etc. and particularly provides an occluder device and trans-catheter occluder delivery system. The sealing device would have improved conformity to heart anatomy and be easily deployed, repositioned, and retrieved at the opening site.