Medical Springs & Components
Century Spring offers decades of experience designing and manufacturing springs and wire-form products for an impressive range of medical and diagnostic applications. As such, we are a vital supplier to the medical device equipment industry, boasting a fully certified ISO 9001 quality management system.
We understand that quality and engineering excellence are indispensable prerequisites when designing and manufacturing medical device equipment springs to ensure patients' health and safety. Springs are found in dozens of medical devices that perform life-saving procedures and are present even in devices designed to be implanted in the body. As such, they are relied upon to perform critical life-supporting functions thousands of times per day.
Our dedicated custom spring development and customer support teams know the needs of medical OEMs and medical device contract manufacturers. They will help you navigate design criteria such as spring size, materials, surface finishes, and end types to find your application's optimal spring solution.
Furthermore, our vast inventory of in-stock springs and standard parts is available for same-day shipping to deliver your needed parts as quickly as possible. Whether you need a simple spring for a pill dispenser or a high-performance spring for surgical equipment, discover how our expansive spring inventories and custom spring design expertise can best serve you today!
Custom Medical and Surgical Springs
We provide an expansive selection of standard parts that are ready to ship. If you can't find what you need in our part catalog, we also offer custom springs and wire forms solutions for medical applications.
We offer many custom options for 316 stainless steel springs, the most popular spring material for medical devices. This material provides superior corrosion prevention performance and features smooth surfaces that are easy to clean.
We offer unmatched expertise in designing and fabricating customized springs for medical devices and surgical applications. Our metallurgical expertise allows us to manufacture precision wire from products as small as 0.004” in diameter, which are ideal for small springs used in surgical equipment. We also have dedicated, high-speed machines that scale spring production to the high product volumes most commonly required for consumable medical and surgical equipment such as syringes.
Whether you are in your project's design or procurement phase, we are ready to partner with you to create springs that meet the unique needs of your medical equipment. We always strive to minimize development lead times to get products to you as quickly as possible.
Springs in Medicine
Springs are found in equipment all over the medical device industry, from surgical tools to orthopedic and implantable medical devices. Some of the most common applications are as follows:
Handheld Surgical Instruments: Any handheld device, such as a wire retractor used to hold back tissue during surgical operations, likely has a spring integrated into it to provide the mechanical force required for the device to function.
Implantable Devices: Small springs may be found within medical devices implanted directly into a patient’s body, such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). Springs function as tiny electrodes within these devices.
Orthodontic Devices: Springs are found in specific orthodontic equipment because they can efficiently provide the steady force required to move teeth gently.
Syringes and auto-injectors: An auto-injector is a device that delivers a concentrated, high dosage of a drug, sometimes through a patient’s clothing. The spring provides the force needed to inject the medication in such devices. For example, EpiPens are auto-injectors that quickly provide high drug dosages directly to tissue to prevent anaphylaxis.
Medical pumps and valves: Pumps and valve equipment deliver metered drug dosages to patients, typically via a catheter or intravenously. They are also used to perform blood transfusions.
Medical robotic technologies: Many robotic equipment or machinery pieces need springs to function correctly. All components used within such robotic equipment, including springs, must be fabricated from the highest quality, medical-grade materials and cleanliness standards.
Hearing Aids: Springs are most commonly found within the battery compartments of hearing aids, providing the conductive path to ensure proper device function. They may also be found in the device's tiny audio switches and relay circuits.
Ventilators: Like medical pumps and valves, ventilators are complex life-sustaining medical equipment. Springs in ventilators help control airflow and enable proper valve functionality.
Prosthetics: Springs are integral in dozens of prosthetic devices, such as knee joint replacements.
What We Offer
Reliable Manufacturing Services
Century Spring offers state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and in-house expertise to create custom medical spring solutions engineered to withstand any environment and meet the most demanding medical device tolerance requirements. We also bring extensive design for manufacturability (DFM) expertise to your project.
We also have cutting-edge computational equipment simulation and testing techniques, such as CNC compression self-monitoring and coiling machinery. These capabilities enable us to deliver durable, reliable products across many custom sizes and styles. Our manufacturing services also include complete prototyping and tooling assistance.
Our team will work directly with you to create, refine, and optimize spring designs to fit specific tolerance, performance, and use case conditions. We are ready to partner with you today to bring your high-performance medical springs to life.
Quality Materials
We offer hundreds of in-stock springs fabricated from the most advanced surgical-grade spring materials, such as stainless steel, Nitronic®, Elgiloy®, titanium, and even a broad selection of high-performance plastics, such as PEEK. We also offer additional spring material options, such as Beryllium Copper, Cobalt Chrome, and Phosphorus Bronze, all suited for medical devices.
However, 316 stainless steel springs are our most popular product for surgical equipment applications because they are chemically inert to surrounding environments and fluids. This material also offers excellent strength and durability and a smooth surface finish, making the products easy to sterilize.
We offer passivation surface treatment options for many of our in-stock 316 stainless steel spring products to further increase your spring's corrosion resistance. Lastly, we provide specialized finishing, cleaning, packaging, and shipping options if your application demands it.
Why Choose Century Spring
Our Commitment to Quality and Service
Century Spring is a quality-first, ISO 9001 and AS9100D certified, industry-leading spring supplier specializing in stock and custom springs. We are the most trusted name in spring manufacturing and offer products and expertise to serve every corner of the medical device market.
Our experienced product engineers, knowledgeable product quality team, and skilled manufacturing personnel always deliver the highest quality products to you faster than our domestic and international competitors. All our springs are always made in the USA.
We offer rapid delivery on over 40,000+ in-stock designs available to ship today. We understand your schedule constraints and are committed to getting products to you as quickly as possible.
Visit us today to discover how our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction vastly improves your product design process!
Advances and Personalized Solutions in Spring Production
We bring extensive design for manufacturability (DFM) expertise to your project. We also have dedicated, high-speed machines that can quickly scale high-quality spring production processes to large part volumes.
Certain medical applications may require specialized manufacturing processes and equipment to fabricate customized high-performance springs.
We also have cutting-edge computational equipment simulation and testing techniques, such as CNC compression self-monitoring and coiling machinery. These capabilities enable us to deliver durable, reliable products across many custom sizes and styles. Our manufacturing services also include complete prototyping and tooling assistance.
Our team will work directly with you to create, refine, and optimize spring designs to fit specific tolerance, performance, and use case conditions. We are ready to partner with you to solve your most challenging medical device spring design challenges.
What Our Customers Are Saying
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Get In Touch
Contact Information
Contact Us directly today, and allow our experts to resolve all your questions and guide you to one of our in-stock disc springs that will fit your application.
If you need immediate assistance, you can always reach us at our dedicated phone line to speak directly with our team: 800-237-5225.
We are ready to provide comprehensive engineering support from your earliest design stages to final product approval.
Request a Quote
We can also help you shop many different spring types and configurations commonly used for medical device equipment and determine whether a custom design would better suit your application.
Simply Request a Custom Quotation so we can partner with you to customize a disc spring for your unique application.
Once we hear from you, our design team will follow up with a quote for a custom solution and be happy to answer any follow-up questions you may have.
FAQs About Medical Springs
What is the difference between stainless steel alloys (300/302 and 316)?
The main difference between stainless steel alloys 300/302 and 316 involves corrosion resistance. Alloy 300/302 is a general-purpose stainless steel with good corrosion resistance in applications with light exposure to water or mildly corrosive mediums. In contrast, 316 stainless steel has more corrosion resistance against a wide range of fluid medium applications, which is why it is the favored alloy for medical and food-grade applications.
What are the primary advantages of passivated stainless steel springs?
The primary advantage of passivated Stainless Steel springs is the chromium oxide surface layer, which is the chemical mechanism that provides excellent corrosion resistance to stainless steel. This surface layer prevents additional oxygen from reacting with the iron below. Passivating is a secondary chemical process that increases this surface layer to ensure it is sufficiently thick and unbroken. As such, it is strongly recommended for springs that will be subjected to highly corrosive mediums.
Questions?
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Custom Parts
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