RTC Projects

iPecs Lab

iPecs Lab is a six axis load cell that can measure forces and moments in a prosthetic limb and wirelessly transmit the data back to a PC. Two members of the RTC Electronics team were the principle developers of iPecs Lab. iPecs Lab was the winner of the Electronics category in NASA’s 2011 Create the Future Design Contest.

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The MCSA was invented and patented by a member of the RTC Electronics team. It uses capacitive sensors to provide an array of load cells that measure axial and shear forces on a flexible mat. It can effectively give a computer a sense of touch. The initial application is expected to be a system to prevent pressure sores in bedridden patients.

Multi Capacitor Sensor Array

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PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS

Here are some examples of projects and products developed by the RTC Electronics team.

LED Lighting

RTC Electronics has invented and patented electronics for powering LED lighting for home and commercial applications. The designs are cheap, efficient and have a power factor of 1.0, They are transformerless and work with standard triac wall dimmers. They are compact and can be designed into a standard size light bulb. [Note: external bulb hardware shown is from a commercial product by another manufacturer. Electroncs has been replaced by the RTC design.]

Electronic Test Cartridge

RTC Electronics engineers designed and built electronic test cartridges for Instrumentation Laboratory's GEM Premier blood analyzers. These test cartridges simulate the behavior of wet cartridges containing blood samples, reagents and sensors, and are used to test the blood analyzers in a way that is exactly repeatable. The test cartridges have been highly successful and are still in use after more than a decade.

The dental instrument was designed and built by RTC Electronics engineers. It used an ion selective electrode to detect gum disease and to monitor a patient's response to treatment. A microprocessor interpreted and printed the results for the dentist.

Dental Monitor

RTC Electronics engineers designed and implemented a stop watch for the horse racing industry. The watch records and displays four split times. It uses an inexpensive Toshiba four bit microprocessor and a custom LCD display.

Horse Racing Stop Watch

DietByte is a diet scale designed and developed by RTC engineers using our patented load cell to weigh food items and to determine total nutritional content. The load cell is unique, inexpensive, accurate and gives excellent off-center load rejection. The on board microprocessor contains a large nutritional data base and, given the weight of the food item, can display caloric content and eleven nutrients for more than 1000 foods.

DietByte

Draftsman Cutting Shop is the premier raster to vector program for the laser, waterjet, plasma and engraving industry. It also excels in design and layout, text handling, optimization, object warping and other functions necessary to create a superb design for cutting. It was designed and implemented by members of the RTC team.

Draftsman Cutting Shop

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