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Methode enables new possibilities through innovative user interface, sensor, and power-management solutions. Working with major health-care companies such as LifeScan, Siemens Medical, Philips Medical, Medtronic and Stryker, Methode provides critical components and subsystems for next-generation CT, MRI and other patient-care equipment.
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Methode's technologically advanced user-interface controls have the potential to redefine medical UI. Embracing design attributes that
blend the human element with the machines being controlled; patient care has never looked so seamless. Whether it is control system
reliability, or simply brand recognition strength, Methode technology differentiates.
- Intuitive operation: controls address "the human factor"
- Seamless surfaces for infection control
- Fully decorated antimicrobial surfaces with optional lighting
- Haptic tactile feedback for operational accuracy
- Reliable input technologies for safety-critical applications
- Industrial design and styling for strong brand recognition
Methode offers a wide variety of sensing solutions in support of the medical industry. From extremely reliable non-contact fluid-sensing, disposable patient tissue sensors, to the precise measurement of torque, angle and linear position, Methode technology is here to meet the challenge.
Managing temperature is an essential need when providing quality patient care and Methode's X-ray transparent carbon-heating solutions are the answer. Available in a variety of linear arrays and thermal surface mats, this safe and easy to integrate solution is the choice technology for medical warming applications.
Methode's innovative approach to designing and manufacturing next-generation miniature interconnect devices and components provides cost-effective and reliable patient-care solutions.
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Methode's broad expertise in bus bar, cable, interconnection systems and thermal management offers space-saving value for multiple discrete-circuit and high-power applications. With over forty years of power experience, we offer customers the confidence that they will achieve the highest levels of performance using Methode's technology, engineering, manufacturing, and in-depth know-how in power system design.
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IntuiTek Modular User Interface products are the ideal solution for integrators who want to manage their own assembly process. The products offer reliable touch input without software or tooling. |
Sensitive to touch yet rugged enough to survive transportation-industry requirements, our touch screens are designed for a long life of accurate and reliable performance. |
Methode's Biometric Sensing, using multi-spectral imaging, enables identity verification based on the unique characteristics of human skin structure. Personal recognition from unique physical attributes offers a powerful tool for identity management. |
IntuiTek haptic devices are the next revolution in Programmable Rotary Control to achieve precision control, on-the-fly programming of tactile feedback, push-to-select switching for multifunction use and more. |
Methode's TouchSensor™ division has redefined user interface touch interaction and touch activation, designing nearly 14 million custom user interface panels for some of the world's best brands and harshest environments. With expert engineering design centers on three continents, Methode brings creative design and rugged reliability together for unprecedented innovation, performance, style, and user experience. |
Methode has been formulating and manufacturing Polymer Thick Film (PTF) inks for the electronics industry for over forty years. As experts in developing conductive and resistive inks, Methode has developed innovative aqueous-based inkjet conductive inks for the growing printed electronics market, and print-and-assemble sensor assemblies. Our assemblies can be customized to meet your physical layout, substrate material, electrical conductivity and durability needs. Utilized in applications like fuel level, throttle position, printer media detection, RFID and patient oxygen sensing, these sensors incorporate our conductive and resistive design expertise. |
A leading provider of Bus Bar solutions, Methode delivers products that meet RoHS and REACH standards, as well as UL-certified assemblies. We provide sales, engineering and manufacturing support from our facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. Our experienced teams of engineers, supported by our regional design centers, collaborate with our customers to turn their concepts into high-performing, cost-effective solutions. |
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TouchSensor™ is the unchallenged leader in touch-activated user interface. Innovative field-effect technology requires no software, has no moving parts to wear out, and is field-proven with over 200 million digital touch-sensitive switches in use around the world. |
HapticsMethode's haptic sensory feedback offers revolutionary features that are not possible with traditional mechanical switches, touch screens, and encoders, including context sensitivity, precision control, and programmable tactile feedback. |
Integrated LightingUnique ring-lighting, text-lighting, backlighting and even dead-fronting solutions make your user interface come alive with expected ruggedness and unprecedented sophistication. |
Robust identity verification using proven multi-spectral imaging technology that verifies unique characteristics of the user's finger at the cellular level. With this technology, you can expect complete accuracy, in any environment. |
Methode's aqueous-based screen printed cermet, Polymer Thick Film (PTF) and inkjet printable conductive inks are used for a wide range of application-specific sensor substrates. |
A highly flexible, durable and non-metallic heating element solution, carbon fiber heating elements are available in thermal pads or linear elements. |
The Sonicrimp process offers an interconnection solution for flexible circuitry, conductive fabric or other unique termination challenges. |
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Patients lacking incontinence control expressed the need to be notified when bags were nearing full capacity. Our sensor team designed semi-disposable, through-wall fluid detection sensors… |
Laminated bus bars are utilized for their space-saving, high frequency, high current capabilities and ability to conform to the specific application architecture. The power is coupled to electrolytic… |
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| MAY 8, 2013 | Chicago, IL – May 8, 2013 - Methode Development Company (MDC), a division of Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: MEI), a global developer of custom engineered and application specific products and solutions, announced the release of an improved development kit that allows engineers to create functional electrical circuits with a piezo electric printhead inkjet desktop printer, eliminating tooling and reducing development time.
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| APR 18, 2013 | Chicago, IL – April 18, 2013 - Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: MEI), a global developer of custom engineered and application specific products and solutions, today announced it has been named one of “America’s 100 Most Trustworthy Companies” by Forbes for the second year in a row.
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| APR 16, 2013 | Mike Stibgen of Methode’s Power Solutions Group demonstrates the new SmartPower Stack™ at APEC 2013. Check it out here
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| MAR 18, 2013 | The SmartPower Stack™ is a fully integrated, deployment-ready commercial embedded system for high-volume solar, photovoltaic, wind, hybrid electric and electric vehicles, as well as high capacity uninterruptible power supply and efficient motor drive applications.
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| MAR 11, 2013 | Methode’s new SmartPower Stack™ (SPS), a state-of-the-art power inverter/converter is being unveiled at APEC 2013, the premier event in applied power electronics, at the Long Beach Convention March 17 to 21, 2013.
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| NOV 29, 2012 | Chicago, IL - November 29, 2012 - Methode Electronics, Inc. (Methode) (NYSE: MEI), a global designer and manufacturer of electro-mechanical devices and a leader in conductive inks for printed electronics, will exhibit at the ID Tech Printed Electronics USA 2012 tradeshow, Booth # G04, on December 5&6, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.
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| APR 6, 2012 | Forbes recently identified what they called, "the most transparent and trustworthy businesses that trade on American exchanges," utilizing quantitative and qualitative analysis to look beyond the raw data on public companies’ income statements and balance sheets to assess the true quality of corporate accounting and management practices.
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| JAN 24, 2012 | Methode Power Solutions Group will have a significant presence at AABC this year, emphasizing its industry leading technologies, products and a global manufacturing footprint.
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| JAN 24, 2012 | Methode Power Solutions Group will have a significant presence at APEC this year with an emphasis on its industry leading power technologies, products and a global manufacturing footprint.
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| JAN 24, 2012 | Methode Electronics Power Solutions Group, a division of Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:MEI), today announced its cable and wire termination technology, known as FusionLug™, is now Underwriter Laboratories (UL) recognized.
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| JAN 9, 2012 | Methode Electronics will be showcasing their first automotive-grade TouchScreen in Atmel’s booth (#MP2552) at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 10 – 14 2012.
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| NOV 14, 2011 | Hetronic passes its ISO 9001; 2008 audit and adds two new partners under the ISO 9001 umbrella, showing a commitment to quality and customer needs.
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| NOV 11, 2011 | New Hetronic RC Receiver - the RX ES CAN-HL translates to any mobile operation such as loader cranes and concrete pumps, but also has other field applications like mining, boat lifts and digger derricks...
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| NOV 11, 2011 | Hetronic's annual Partner's Meeting to be held on April 15th, 2011, in conjunction with participation in INTERMAT 2012.
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| MAR 25, 2011 | RICHARDSON, TX: In an age of headline-making security breaches and expensive data loss, many enterprises are looking for a new approach to automate the physical security of their data centers. Methode Data Solutions Group, a unit of Methode Electron
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