Heat Seal

The Tactilus^® heat seal sensor indicates pressure distribution and magnitude between the two platens or jaws of your heat sealing device. Tactilus^® is a thin flexible membrane – actually a sensor “skin” that sits directly on the active sealing location, thus allowing optimal collection of data. Tactilus^® actually lets you see what is going on directly at the sealing interface, unlike a traditional load cell which merely captures the force level that your jaws are impacting.


“Tactilus^® is delivered with the expectation that you’ll want to integrate it into your existing process control software and GMP protocol. To that end we offer DLLs and custom GUIs as a standard practice”
   -Jeffrey G. Stark, CEO

Characterzation of heat seal displayed in real-time

Tactilus^® Technology

Tactilus^® is a matrix based tactile surface sensor, that records and interprets pressure distribution and magnitude between any two contacting or mating surfaces using a powerful Windows^® based tool kit. Each Tactilus^® sensor is carefully assembled to exacting tolerances and individually calibrated and serialized. 

Tactilus^® software is modular allowing for portability, easy expansion, and simultaneous data collection from up to 4 discrete sensor pads. Tactilus^® employs sophisticated mathematical algorithms that intelligently separate separate signal from noise, and advanced electronic shielding techniques to maximize environmental immunity to noise, temperature and humidity. Our proprietary design ensures the most robust sensor in the industry – an investment that will sustain thousands of uses.

Benefits

• Pre-calibrated-ease of use/high resolution/more sensing points
• Highly resistant to electromagnetic noise, temperature and humidity fluctuations
• Sensor flexibility and durability

Tactilus^® can be used to ascertain:

• Parallelism of sealing jaws
• Warpage of metal fixtures
• Micro Fractures surface defects
• Multiple axis misalignments
• Actual magnitude of sealing force