Designing flexible medical devices for tight or curved spaces brings significant challenges in miniaturization, maneuverability, and reliability. Traditional electronics often can’t bend or fit where precision is most critical. Murata’s Stretchable Printed Circuit (SPC) technology addresses these challenges with flexible, biocompatible materials that enable small insertion diameters, smoother articulation, and precise sensor placement near the device tip. Join our webinar to discover how stretchable substrate technology is advancing the next generation of catheters, endoscopes, and bronchoscopes.
Overview
Designing flexible medical devices for tight or curved spaces brings significant challenges in miniaturization, maneuverability, and reliability. Traditional electronics often cannot bend or fit where precision is most critical. Murata’s Stretchable Printed Circuit (SPC) technology addresses these challenges with flexible, biocompatible materials that enable small insertion diameters, smoother articulation, and precise sensor placement near the distal tip.
SPCs combine ultra-thin, biocompatible substrates with multi-layer precision printing and advanced component mounting. This allows critical electronics such as sensors to be integrated where needed, without compromising device flexibility or structural integrity. For engineers designing catheters, endoscopes, or bronchoscopes, SPCs allow devices to navigate complex anatomical pathways while maintaining high-quality imaging, responsive control, and consistent performance.
In this webinar, we will explore how SPC technology simplifies integration across flexible substrates, embedded sensors, optical components, and protective layers, while supporting expanded articulation and advanced actuation systems. You’ll gain insight into how this breakthrough in stretchable substrate engineering is enabling the next generation of compact, high-performance medical instruments that deliver improved diagnostics, enhanced maneuverability, and better patient outcomes.
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Key Takeaways
- Overcome design limits with SPC technology that enables compact, flexible architectures for catheters, endoscopes, and bronchoscopes operating in tight or curved spaces.
- Enhance reliability with SPCs engineered to resist kinks, maintain flexibility, and perform dependably in high-voltage and high-humidity environmental.
- Integrate more functionality by combining multi-layer printing and surface-mount component placement on a single flexible substrate.
- Simplify system design through seamless substrate connection that support compact, multifunctional medical assemblies.
- Accelerate innovation with Murata’s end-to-end support in customized design, rapid prototyping, and scalable production of stretchable electronics for advanced medical devices.
Speaker
Alexander Vervuurt has worked for 10 years in various roles within new business creation and incubation to connect needs in the medical sector with Murata's core technology. His experience in developing various technologies and products ranges from the R&D stage up to volume production by creating connections and setting up collaborative projects with medical ecosystem parties and internal R&D teams.