Founded in December 2006, Piezo Resonance Innovations Inc. (PRII; Bellefonte, PA) has already established itself locally, being named the Outstanding Technology Company of the Year by the Chamber of Business and Industry of Centre County. By exhibiting at MD&M East this year, the company hopes to further expand its visibility in the marketplace.

Positioning itself as an outsourced R&D division for medical device manufacturers, the firm specializes in smart materials—which encompass piezoelectric, electromagnetic, magnetostrictive, and shape-memory technologies—for precision motion devices.

“We can take a static tool and add an active component to make that tool function better,” says Maureen Mulvihill, company president. PRII is incorporating its technology into various blades for eye, soft-tissue, and hard-tissue surgeries with the aim of enabling more-accurate incisions based on the ability to vibrate a device at a certain frequency. Ophthalmology, vascular entry, hard-tissue penetration, and minimally invasive surgery could also benefit from the firm’s offerings.

PRII is supported by a corporate management team with more than 70 years of combined experience in such areas as active materials device development and implementation, medical device development and manufacturing, and electronics, actuator, and transducer development. Armed with these capabilities, the company can design a motion device, prototype it, test it, conduct field evaluations, and manufacture it in small volumes. PRII also has a network of partners that can perform large-scale manufacturing for commercialization.

“We have expertise in the piezoelectric area and the smart-component area, we have medical device experience, and we have electronics experience,” Mulvihill says. “We can do the entire package, from the component to the medical device to the electronics to the drive mechanism, for OEMs.”
Piezo Resonance Innovations Inc.
www.piezo-res.com
Booth #1080