Sentences with word «nitinol»

• Cirtec Medical, a portfolio company of 3i Group, acquired Vascotube, a Baden - Wuerttemberg, Germany - based maker of precision - engineered nitinol tubing.

like nitinol wire, which is used not only in peripheral artery stents, heart valves, underwire bras and eyeglass frames, but also in golf clubs, dental wires, fire detectors, helicopter blades and artificial hips.

Hawkes can work his way up a glass wall using a climbing device based on arrays of sticky tiles, each rigged with a spring made of the nickel - titanium alloy nitinol.

For the piece, Canell combined gum with nitinol, a metal alloy of titanium and nickel that is very sensitive to temperature changes.

In case of the metal structure, the document states the use of nitinol, which is an alloy made from nickel with titanium.

Defined, developed and implemented appropriate quality control processes (e.g. Incoming Inspection, In - process QA, Final product) within the medical device (nitinol tubing) manufacturing process.

But a major existing shape memory material, nitinol, a nickel - titanium alloy, is too heavy and expensive for use in climbing ropes.

The tiny device comprises a prosthetic heart valve made of pericardial tissue «stitched» within a self - expanding, polymer coated nickel - titanium (nitinol) alloy stent frame specially designed to prevent leakage.

To even up the load, Hawkes and colleagues developed a way of supporting the weight by attaching a nitinol spring to each tile.

After working through a system of squishy pads and other alternatives, Hawkes turned to nitinol, which has the unusual property of growing stretchier as the force pulling it increases.