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Product Development -- Quadrupole Magnetic Sorter |
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As with the old parable of the blind men and the elephant, you may get very different answers if you ask an assortment of Techshot customers what kind of company they've hired.
"...Techshot is a process automation company."
"...it's medical device company."
"...it's a laboratory automation company."
"...a NASA space hardware contractor."
"...they're a defense electronics company."
"...it develops custom laboratory animal care and use equipment."
Such responses are common...and each is correct.
Ask IKOtech, LLC about Techshot and you may hear it described as a company specializing in the development of custom medical devices and laboratory equipment.
For nearly three years, Techshot has been helping further technologies related to nine patents that IKOtech licensed from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and The Ohio State University.
An assemblage of mostly off-the-shelf components on a bench top at the university has proven that it's possible to quickly and gently isolate desired biological cells with a quadrupole magnetic sorter (QMS).
Separations are achieved by labeling the targeted cells, in a mixed cell population, with magnetic nanoparticles and sorting them based on their resulting magnetic properties. The process has broad applications, but is especially helpful in stem cell, cancer and diabetes research.
From the beginning, IKOtech has relied on Techshot to refine each component and every process while integrating it all into one easy to use automated system. The company's engineers and scientists not only are developing the capitalized laboratory equipment portion, but also the sterile disposable flow channels and tube sets that each experiment requires.
Continue reading about the Quadrupole Magnetic Sorter |
| Product Development -- On-Board Recorder |
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In the development of precision guided munitions, information about the harsh environment inside the gun barrel during firing is of critical importance. The collection of accurate acceleration and pressure data, as well as other performance parameters (stress, temperature, etc.) is essential to ensuring the accuracy of these munitions when fielded.
Continued in-flight recording of data, such as set-back and set-forward acceleration, spin rate, and guidance, navigation and control data also is paramount to the development of cost-effective precision munitions. To obtain information about the nature of these environments, a data acquisition system (an On-Board Recorder, or OBR) is placed in an inert projectile and fired. Units are located after impact and connected to a computer to retrieve the recorded data.
The Army's current OBR has limitations that Techshot expects to eliminate with the new version it is developing.
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Contact Rich Boling or Lara Rink for more information about how Techshot can help your organization.
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