Flexible Elastomeric Parts

Bo,

Don't know of any books, things change too fast.

Your probably gonna laugh, but sometimes when we need fresh ideas for clever integrated mechanisms, we take a couple hundred bucks and go to toy stores. Toy designers are really clever.

Regards

Mark

Thanks. I indeed look to other designer's work in stores also.

You find some amazing things at times.

I actually am not seeing innovation from some of the largest medical companies.

Bo

Bo,

The big medical companies are allergic to innovation. We used to do business with quite a few big ones, Abbot, Nellcore P.B., Medtronics, and others. In the last five years or so, most of these behemoth's engineering depts have shifted to a sustaining mode. We do very little business with them directly anymore because the bean counters can't grasp the concept of "time and materials".

We like well funded start-ups now. That's where all the innovation is today. Once these start-ups finish clinicals and FDA, ISO,CE etc., they're usually bought by a biggie like Johnson & Johnson. They find it more economical than developing internally.

Regards

Mark

Bo,

You might want to check out "Joining of Plastics: Handbook for Designers and Engineers" by Jordan Rotheiser at Amazon.com

search for: 1569903549

I have it and its covers much of the info I think you are looking for.

Scot