Crystal Dreisbach, MPH, FHI/USA Andrew Kumwenda , MD, FHI/Zambia (ZPCT II)
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Company Confidential 1 From MEMS to Product and Back…… Int. MicroNanoConference 2018, Amsterdam Speaker: Jan-Jaap Koning NovioMEMS / Novioscan Ultrasound
Transcript of Ultrasound - FHI
Company Confidential 1
From MEMS
to Product
and Back……
Int. MicroNanoConference 2018, Amsterdam
Speaker: Jan-Jaap KoningNovioMEMS / Novioscan
Ultrasound
• 2010: initiate industrial MEMS
• 2012: choice for Ultrasound
• Research projects with partners:
• Demonstrator piezo-electric MEMS 2015
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hole
Side viewTop view
PDMS Molded
MEMS
Step1: MEMS
UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE.
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Technology, but no product…
Foundation of
in 2014
Step 2
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• Find partners
• All resources on product
• Develop supply chain
• Marketing research
• Clinical trials, approval
Focus focus focus
Use existing technologies
Product development
UMC Utrecht
Intellectual PropertyProprietary Algorithms and Analog designBrand and design protection
Patents:Wearable ultrasound device:WO2015137810Ultrasound on a Chip: WO2016085341
Product
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• 2016: starting product development
• 2018: product release without MEMS
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USPs
Wearable
Wireless
Personal
Small
Team transition: commercialize
van Leuteren PG, et al., SENS-U: validation of a wearable ultrasonic bladder monitor
in children during urodynamic studies, Journal of Pediatric Urology (2018),
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpurol.2018.07.018
Step 3: from R&D to Commerce
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Next: Back to MEMS
Miniaturization
EU project:
“CMUT”
Capacitive MEMS becoming piezo-electric?
“PMUT”
Ultrasound-on-a-chip
Smart Sticker
Rob Tweehuysen, Reinout Woltjer, Peter van Stiphout, Francien Mels, Paul van Leuteren, Jorien de Jonge, Avinash Rajkoemar, Rob Genders, Pieter Dik, Huibert Tjabbes, Jan-Jaap Koning
