Why Ultrasonic Cleaners Are Essential to Medical Manufacturers

Modern medical equipment incorporates sensitive components such as electronics, sensors, and optical fiber. Because of the way they are constructed, traditional cleaning and sterilizing methods can’t often be used in cleaning them.

Manual scrubbing can remove heavy contamination but can cause scratches to certain devices such as sensors, optical devices, and other fragile equipment. Some electronics are sensitive to heat, and therefore cannot stand high temperatures from hot steam. Devices with complicated shapes, hinges, threaded holes, and interior surfaces are hard to clean by traditional cleaning methods alone.

Ultrasonic cleaners provide the best alternative to traditional cleaning methods to remove contaminants without using chemicals, manual scrubbing, or high temperatures. They can do effective cleaning performance for both robust parts and delicate parts, as long as the configurations are adjusted accordingly.

Medical ultrasonic cleaners work by creating microscopic bubbles in the cleaning solution. As the ultrasonic sound waves pass through the cleaning tank, the bubbles form and burst in tune with the ultrasonic frequency. When the bubble bursts, it produces a tiny but powerful jet that can dislodge contaminants from the surface of the part to be cleaned.

The ultrasonic cleaning system has to have enough power to fill the cleaning tank with ultrasonic waves. Ultrasonic cleaners can be configured to deliver strong cleaning performance for durable and robust parts or gentle cleaning to fragile parts. Low frequencies create comparatively large bubbles and deliver a powerful cleaning action. High frequencies, on the other hand, produce smaller bubbles and weaker jets, providing a gentler cleaning action. Choosing the right frequency matches the cleaning power to the medical equipment to be cleaned.

Ultrasonic cleaners can clean parts and devices with complex shapes, interior holes or along crevices. While medical ultrasonic cleaners do not sterilize, adding a disinfectant to the cleaning solution renders the clean parts sterile. As modern medical equipment gets more difficult to clean, ultrasonic cleaners are the ideal solution for the manufacturers of medical equipment.

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