1. Assistance of printed circuit boards for tripolar electrodes
By: Edwin Sam1, Sydney Armand2, Dr. Walter Besio3, Robert Valenti4, Victoria Danielson5, Tanya Wang6
1SE Fellows, University of Rhode Island 2BME Department Kelly Hall, University of Rhode Island
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Introduction
In this day in age, technology seems to be at the forefront
of our society. Every field, including healthcare is
improving vastly due to the advancements in technology.
Different health care and hospital companies are a hot
topic in the world of investing because of how worldwide
the devices are getting and how many people need these
new devices in their daily life. The more the companies
improve their devices for more patients receive proper
treatment. The goal of my project is to attempt to find the
best printed circuit board that best fits into our device that
could potentially predict seizures that can benefit seizure
patients and provide hospitals with the appropriate
devices they need to assist them. Towards this goal over
the summer, I learned about different printing boards and
the one that fits my lab perfectly. I received the specs
from my professor, which I then used to contact different
circuit companies to find one that perfectly matched our
ideal board. From there, we could continue to run our
experiments with little to no errors occurring.
Methods
• Receiving specific specs for the printed circuit
boards
• Contacting circuit companies about their
board specs
• Matching our desired specs with the best
ones provided by the companies
• Selecting the best company board that best
fits our project
Data
Sunstone Circuits Express PCB
San Francisco Circuits
PCB
Conclusion
References &
Acknowledgement
Fritzing
The new electrodes that were modified in the lab were used
to get a more secure reading of the brain. The printed
circuit boards required for the device to function needed the
minimum width between the solder mask pads that can be
provided from the three companies; Express PCB, San
Francisco Circuits and Sunstone Circuits. The minimum
width we received was 0.003” inches on all sides by Express
PCB. That is the company we could potentially use to print
our circuit board after designing it on the Fritzing software.
Fritzing is one of many computer softwares used to design
printed circuit boards in order for companies tp print the
specific specs for the board. This program contains all the
necessary tools needed for circuit boards.
*Trace space between pads
• A special thanks to Dr. Walter Besio and the biomedical
engineering department for the opportunity to work in
the lab
• Thank you to the Engineering department for the
research opportunity
• Thank you to the SE Fellows program for the summer
opportunity