TE offers a broad array of components, subassemblies and value-added manufacturing methods to support medical device OEMs develop advanced sensor-enabled smart catheters.
When it comes to designing imaging, mapping and ablation catheters, key design considerations, include size, control, and flexibility. TE has deep expertise in advanced braiding and shaft design, fine wire management, extrusions and sensor technology, cable design, and other proven components. These broad array of capabilities enable us to be your single partner in the development of advanced imaging, mapping and ablation catheters that meet the size, control and flexibility you need.
From the initial prototype to high-volume production, our distinctive position enables us to support you in the development of catheters that are not only efficiently designed but also capable of generating high-resolution images.
Steerable, Braided & Coiled Sheaths
TE can produce both subassemblies and complete assemblies in-house, providing you with a single-source supplier of your custom components, sheaths and steerable shafts.
Fine Wire Termination
Size is critical in catheter design. TE's expertise in fine wire termination down to 0.004" pitch allows you to specify a high number of signal- or energy-delivery channels in a small package.
Medical Grade Heat Shrink Tubing
TE's line of medical-grade heat-shrink tubing can be used as an aid to delicate catheter assembly processes, such as laser welding balloon catheters, or as a structural element in catheter shaft design. Whether you use off-the-shelf or custom-formulated materials, TE’s expertise in compounding, expansion, and polymer crosslinking can provide you with the tubing to meet your specifications.
Extruded Tubing
TE supplies high-efficiency extruded tubing to medical device manufacturers who want to offer advanced functionality within the size constraints of their coronary, peripheral, and neurovascular devices.
Pull Wire Assemblies
TE’s pull wire assemblies are backed by advanced laser-welding technology, industry-leading prototyping solutions, expert design feedback and manufacturing process development. Furthermore, when your design is ready for production, we have a standardized system to validate the process, and the resources to scale quickly to meet your production needs.
Temperature Sensors
TE's micro-thermocouples are flexible, fine gauge thermocouples used whenever fast, accurate temperature measurements are required.
Custom Single-use Connector
Balancing size, electrical performance and cost-effectiveness is the challenge with single-use connectors for catheter assemblies. TE goes beyond cost containment in the connector itself by looking at design for manufacturability and cost mitigation.
Reusable System Trunk Cable
Many single-use systems utilize a reusable trunk cable as a bridge from the catheter device to the system. TE will use our expertise in high-performance reusable cable to help you link your catheter product to the interventional system.
Pressure Sensors
TE's MEMS silicon die and microstructures are offered for very small embedded applications. These sensor chips may be integrated into other devices.
Laser Processing
Our extensive in-house laser processing capabilities allow us to add value to catheter manufacturing, such as OD reduction, porting, laser cutting and ablation. We offer laser cutting, laser welding, laser ablation and laser marking for precision medical device manufacturing and assembly in many applications including coronary, peripheral vascular, neurovascular interventions and more.
Learn about the connector platform solution TE has designed for catheter development applications as well as our approach, application knowledge, and engineering expertise in developing components for imaging catheters.
