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Gallery Of Capabilities


Articles : Gallery Of Capabilities
CUSTOM PRODUCTS

Plastics One Inc. designs,develops, manufactures and markets a variety of highly specialized medical and audio cables and connectors, as well as in-vivo neuroscience research components. We are also specialists in custom design, tooling and plastic injection molding, creating a company that embodies teamwork and diversity! Products built to your specifications is clearly our specialty. We offer an extensive line of connectors and leadwires that can be configured in nearly any arrangement you require.

Our R&D engineers and Sales staff are available to assist you with defining a product design to meet your requirements. We can start with just a sketch or work with drawings. If necessary, we can provide an off-the-shelf sample or we can create a functional prototype cord for your testing and evaluation.

It is important that you are aware that only our most popular connectors and lead wires are featured here. We have many, many other designs not showcased on our web site. We continue to add to our site daily, so if you do not see a product that meets your needs, please contact us so we can determine if tooling already exists.

441456EPT048001 TYPICAL CABLE ASSEMBLY

The cable shown left demonstrates a typical medical cable assembly. The product shown uses our 1.5mm TouchProof (441, or 881 with logo) terminated to a 456 needle electrode.
For this example, the Plastic's One part number would be 441456EPT048001.

  • The first three digits are the first end connector; the next 3 digits specify the second end.
  • The next 3 digits (7 through 9) specify the wire type, in this cse EPT (green colored wire for the PT series.)
  • Digits 10 through 12 specify wire length in inches.
  • The last three characters specify version, normally it is the default -001l. In some versions the molding (connector) color may not match the wire color, so these digits can be used to specify the exact version.

PRODUCT RANGE

In this group photograph, nearly all of the products shown have both molded and assembled connectors. The three assemblies on the bottom left (and upper right) have Plastics One's owned connectors on one end, with assembled connectors on the other end. However, the part shown on the upper left used a connector overmold build specifically for the customer (see our Custom Connector page). The final cable shown in the bottom right is a fully assembled RF connector.

Connectors featured in this group are Plastic’s One parts 460 (DC power plug), 531 (9-pin D connector), 499 (overmolded Hirose) and 916 (overmolded Lemo RF connector).




CUSTOM PRODUCT SHOWCASE Take a look below at some of the many custom products created by Plastics One. They are shown here to demonstrate our capabilities.

Audio Adapter

This design uses our J02 junction pod, which is modified to accept a slide switch (not shown- on other side) and a phone jack. A simple punching fixture was designed and built by our model shop.
Cable Assembly

This assembly uses our 1.5mm TouchProofTM (441) and Banana (493) connectors, terminated to Molex and Hirose connectors on the other end (that mate to the user PCB). A grommet (enclosure interface) was also installed during final assembly.
Cable Assembly with Yoke

Here our J04 was used with multiple twisted pair leadwires that were terminated to our 441.
Insulation Displacement Connector

This product grew from the requirement for a surgical cable that consisted of 8 twisted pairs, and one single lead terminated to a 28-pin IDC connector. Since standard IDC connectors are designed for stranded ribbon cable and the customer desired to use our tinsel-based wire, extensive testing was done to insure the termination was strong and reliable. In addition, special hand tools were designed to terminate the leads.
Custom Earphone

This particular product used a customer-designed receiver housing (the mold itself was manufactured by Plastics One, and the parts were also molded by POI). We supplied our 257 plug on a coax (our B1S) and performed the final assembly. The only component that the customer added after the product was shipped was the replaceable foam.
Universal Yoke

Plastics One's universal yoke is designed for maximum flexibility. Although available with a standard DIN faceplate that accommodates ten 1.5mm Touchproof connectors, other connectors can be used with custom faceplates. An available blank faceplate can be machined for prototypes or low-volume production.
This yoke is designed to fit our A08 anchor and has a roomy interior for a PCB.