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July 1, 2006 - Oregon Business: Oregon's Private 150
Micro Power moves up nine places from 145 to 136 in Oregon Business magazine’s annual Oregon’s Private 150 listing.
July 1, 2006 - Electronic Products: Medical Electronics Forum
Medical electronics bring a variety of special challenges for the electronics designer. Not only must medical devices must meet stringent safety and reliability requirements, industry trends like consumerization and miniaturization, and the need for many products to be disposable, sterilizable, or nonmagnetic, place additional demands on the design engineer. Here, representatives from a variety of manufacturers involved in the industry discuss these issues and their impact on the design and development process.
June 22, 2006 - EDN: Low-Volume Handheld Designs: Not for the Faint of Heart
Designers of handheld devices confront more technological issues than do designers of many products a thousand times the size. When the devices are specialized and the expected unit volumes and revenues are modest, the design challenges get even tougher.
June 5, 2006 - Portland Business Journal: Micro Power Expands Corporate Headquarters
Micro Power, a supplier of custom battery systems for the portable medical, rugged handheld computing, and data collection equipment markets, moved its headquarters to a larger facility to accommodate ongoing engineering and production growth. The new, 65,000-square-foot facility is double the previous location. Beaverton-based Micro Power can now use 10 production lines and two shifts to continue to meet the increased demand for custom portable power systems from its customers in the medical, commercial military and data collection device markets.
June 7, 2006 - Oregonian: Safety/Reliability Problems Continue to Plague Battery-Based Systems
Micro Power Electronics Inc. has moved its headquarters from Hillsboro to Tektronix's old headquarters in Beaverton, doubling the size of its facility. Micro Power manufactures custom battery packs for devices such as portable defibrillators, ultrasound machines and bar code scanning guns. The company, which was acquired last year by a private equity firm, Weston Presidio, has seen its revenue double in the past two years and expects to see sales increase 25 percent this year, from $40 million to $50 million, the company said.
May 30, 2006 - Military & Aerospace Electronics: Micro Power Upgrades Portable Power Solution for Increased Safety
Micro Power, provider of portable power solutions for mission-critical equipment, has upgraded its SecuraPack custom lithium battery pack, making it more resistant to dangerous malfunctions. Micro Power has updated SecuraPack with authentication, redundant protection circuits, and Li-ion cells to enhance battery system reliability and reduce the risk of unwanted electrochemical reactions and electrical failures.
June 1, 2006 - COTS Journal: Extreme Temps Pose Battery Pack Design Challenges
Additional electronics improve the information supplied to the modern soldier, but field conditions can require ruggedized battery packs that will operate within wider temperature extremes.
May 30, 2006 - EE Times: Li-Ion Battery Packs Add Authentication, Safety
Upgrades to Micro Power Electronics' SecuraPack Li-ion battery packs include authentication, redundant protection circuits, and Li-ion cells designed with enhanced safety for portable applications. "This enhanced, custom power solution encompasses all the crucial elements that OEMs dealing with mission critical portable applications demand including safety, reliability and performance," said Jeffrey VanZwol, marketing manager.
July 1, 2006 - Electronic Products: Smart Battery Packs Enhance Reliability, Safety
Raising the standard in battery system safety and reliability, the upgraded SecuraPack family of Li-ion battery packs significantly reduces the risk of catastrophic failure. Features include a microcontroller-based challenge/response authentication system that prevents the use of an invalid battery pack, and protection circuitry that disables the battery in the event of temperatures or currents that are out of spec.
May 25, 2006 - PowerPulse.com: Micro Power Announces Upgrades to its Lithium Battery Pack
Micro Power Electronics, Inc. announced several upgrades to SecuraPack,™ its custom lithium battery pack designed to optimize battery system reliability and product safety. The SecuraPack brand offers OEM customers a premium solution with a customized, high-performance — and most importantly, safe — battery system that is resistant to dangerous malfunctions. Micro Power intends to raise the safety standard in battery system reliability with SecuraPack to virtually eliminate the risk of unwanted electrochemical reactions and electrical failures. Specific upgrades include authentication, redundant protection circuits and Li-ion cells designed with enhanced safety.