Nectar Product Development

Paint Container and Tray Combination

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:40:55 +0000

The Painters Choice paint container and tray combination is a very innovative design of a paint bucket that includes an integrated tray as the lid. This beneficial container design caters to both consumers and professionals. The everyday DIY consumer can simply flip the lid open and snap designs helps creates a tray for paint rolling. Professionals can use the 5 gallon size and hole for spray painting. Nectar helped refined the paint bucket design and development and built an appearance model for our client.

Product Development:

• Mechanical engineering
• Industrial design
• CNC Prototyping
• Plastics design

Binocular Optical Loupe Design

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:38:22 +0000

Perioptix binocular optical loupe is designed to improve the ergonomic posture for dental hygienists and other professionals doing delicate manual operations. This device magnifies the working area and allows the wearer to maintain an ergonomic upright posture, with head, neck, spine and hips in perfect alignment, minimizing strain on eyes and body. The product features a sleek and low profile design with adjustable declination angle and interpupilary distance, and is available in various magnifications, working distances and with accessories such as an attachable lighting system. Nectar started this next generation product with engineering analysis to optimize structure, improve stiffness, strength and usability, and used this understanding to enable compelling industrial design. Nectar took the design from concept to production ready design, sourced the tooling and manufacturing resources, and worked with them to take the product into production.

Product Development:

• Mechanism development
• Kinematics
• Human factors
• Industrial design
• Prototyping
• Mechanical engineering
• Stress, structural analysis
• FEA
• Sourcing
• Tooling
• First article inspection

Portable Ab Mat: Fitness product design

Jay — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:04:55 +0000

Th Portable Ab-Mat is an entrepreneur’s vision to help people lose weight and their belly area by assisting sit-ups and stretches. A beautiful industrial designed product that is well engineered to withstand the rigors of use and exercise. Nectar has helped in the full development starting from product design, prototyping, logo design and website design.

Product Development:

• Mechanism development
• Kinematics
• Human factors
• Industrial design
• Prototyping
• Mechanical engineering
• Stress, structural analysis
• Sourcing
• Logo design
• Website design

Trauma Pod: Medical System Design

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:27:15 +0000

The Trauma Pod takes cutting edge ideas in medical product sciences to create a portable emergency medical system that serves as a life sustaining unit for military personnels. Using control systems and robotics, remote surgical procedures can be performed using this medical device.

CO2 Scraper

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:42:37 +0000

A green concept design… The CO2 Scraper is a large-scale construction for holding between two to four hundred large-size trees that will absorb potentially dangerous pollutants and convert global warming-related CO2 (carbon dioxide) into breathable oxygen.

Designed to be placed near factories or other major sources of pollution, the CO2 Scraper is a relatively simple, primarily concrete, construction in which trees would be supplied with water and nutrients via a windmill-powered pump system. Primarily energy self-sustaining via windmills (the only outside power required would be electricity for an elevator to be used by maintenance personnel), the Scraper will be “carbon positive,” that is, it will absorb carbon dioxide and increase the amount of life-giving oxygen in the atmosphere.

Aside from absorbing nutrients and converting carbon dioxide into breathable air, the structure would also provide a significant amount of shade, while also cooling the air during the hot summer months because of the temperature-lowering properties of hundreds of trees.

Cypher - Atomic Force Microscope

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:39:46 +0000

Nectar teamed with Asylum Research to design their new Cypher AFM which sets the standard as the world’s highest resolution Atomic Force Microscope.

The atomic force microscope (AFM) or scanning force microscope (SFM) is a very high-resolution type of scanning probe microscope, with demonstrated resolution of fractions of a nanometer. The AFM is one of the foremost tools for imaging, measuring and manipulating matter at the nanoscale. The AFM provides a 3D surface profile of the sample.

The AR / nectar design team developed a proprietary system-level mechanical design that is inherently immune to normal environmental vibration, eliminating the need for additional isolation add-ons for most labs. The integrated system enclosure includes thermal control and provides additional acoustic isolation for noisy environments.

An enclosure design was developed that projected the ideas of power and accuracy that communicates the precision technology that is contained within the system that is primarily utilized in research

Releef: industrial design

Jay — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:38:24 +0000

Because of the difficulty of adjusting dosages to young patients of various ages and size, traditional pills are often administered in incorrect doses in less developed areas, resulting in poor health outcomes. The Releef Initiative, an international non-profit, partnered with Nectar to create an easy-to-use dispenser of medicinal pellets to children in third world countries. This dispenser allows health workers to simply put in the correct amount of pellets and give them directly to the child.

Working on a pro bono basis, Nectar supplied all industrial design services for the Releef dispenser, including general research and human factor studies, configuration, refined mechanical layouts, and prototypes.

Oil & Vinegar Measure: engineering

Jay — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:05:36 +0000

The Oil and Vinegar Measure dispenses pre-mixed liquids of up to one tablespoon — useful on salads or whenever a precise mixture of ingredients may be required for food preparation.
The Nectar team provided a range of engineering services in the production of the dispenser’s squeeze-pump and graduated container, including: production-ready CAD drawings and mechanical layouts, testing and prototyping, structural analysis, and cost estimates.

RAZR Case: industrial design

Jay — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:56:59 +0000

Designed to adapt to a changing environment, the RAZR Case forms a waterproof shell around your phone to keep it dry and protected. The RAZR Case is another line of SKB products that combines the sleek form of the Motorola RAZR phone with the ruggedness that SKB cases are known for. Nectar has developed this case to fully integrate the functionality of the phone, allowing for easy access and usage.

RAZR Case: engineering

Jay — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:56:36 +0000

Designed to work with Motorola RAZR cell phones, SKB’s RAZR Case provides an effective waterproof shell to prevent damage to cell phones caused by moisture and mild shocks.
Nectar handled all stages in the engineering of SKB’s RAZR Case, including production-ready CAD drawings and mechanical layouts, prototypes, analysis, and cost estimates.