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VPG to Showcase Standard and Custom Weight and Force Sensors for Medical Applications at CMEF Autumn 2011


Published on 2011-10-20 08:07:27 - Market Wire
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October 20, 2011 11:00 ET

Media Alert: VPG to Showcase Standard and Custom Weight and Force Sensors for Medical Applications at CMEF Autumn 2011

MALVERN, PA--(Marketwire - Oct 20, 2011) - Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (NYSE: [ VPG ]) today announced that its VPG Transducers division will be demonstrating high-quality standard and custom Celtron, Revere, Sensortronics, and Tedea-Huntleigh brand weight and force sensors for medical applications in booths M64 and M65 at CMEF (China International Medicinal Equipment Fair) Autumn 2011 -- being held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 at the Fujian Strait International Conference & Exhibition Center in China.

VPG's sensors can be tailored to meet the mounting, connectivity, and accuracy requirements of a wide range of medical applications. The company's force sensors offer high accuracy and reliability for the monitoring of internal tube pressure in infusion pumps; blood pressure and heart rate monitoring; measurable rehabilitation evaluation equipment in physiotherapy; and feedback control units in prosthetics.

For patient weighing in hospital beds, stretchers, incubators, patient floor and ceiling lifts, and bathing aids, VPG's weight sensors offer easy-entry or hidden-from-view installation and don't interfere with X-ray equipment while weighing. For space-saving folding scales for wheelchairs, VPG Transducers offers weigh sensors with low profiles down to 20 mm.

Staff will also be on hand to answer questions about Vishay Foil Resistors, which deliver proven reliability and stable performance in DC/DC converters, feedback circuits, and precision amplifiers for a wide range of medical devices, such as cardiac mapping systems, furnace control units, 3D imaging, X-ray generators for CT systems, motor-driven equipment, intravascular cooling systems, ultra-sonic microscopes, and much more.

Further information on products from VPG Transducers is available at [ http://www.vpgtransducers.com ].

About VPG Transducers
VPG Transducers is a division of Vishay Precision Group and includes products from Tedea-Huntleigh, Sensortronics, Revere, and Celtron brands, which have been providing weighing and force measurement products for decades. VPG Transducers load cells, in combination with the company's Micro-Measurements know-how, use the most advanced strain gage technology available. VPG Transducers' experience and design capabilities make it possible to provide a wide range of standard and custom-made products and solutions. Throughout its worldwide operations, the company carries a commitment to uncompromising quality.

About Vishay Precision Group
Vishay Precision Group (VPG) produces sensors based on precision resistive foil technology, and sensor-based systems. It provides vertically integrated products and solutions for multiple growing markets in the areas of stress, force, weight, pressure, and current measurements. As a spin-off from Vishay Intertechnology, VPG's decades-long track record encompasses innovations in foil precision resistors, current sensors, and strain gages, which have served as a foundation for VPG's more recent expansion into strain gage instrumentation, load cells, transducers, weighing modules, and complete systems for process control and on-board weighing. Vishay Precision Group may be found on the Internet at [ www.vishaypg.com ].