Innovative engineering is our specialty

At Reon Engineering we specialize in bringing innovative ideas to life from the R&D stage to market ready products.

We work with entrepreneurs and forward thinking companies in designing and building prototypes, performing end-user testing, reviewing design processes and researching market feasability.

Research & development

What was good yesterday is standard today. Rising complexity and high dynamics in the market require existing questions to be constantly questioned. With over 12 years in the industry Reon Engineering works with it's clients to purposefully and consistently set new standards.

End-user testing and market feasability

At the core of our development cycle is frequient user interaction. We take the end users feedback into consideration early in our process and put a lot of emphasis on creating products that work for the targeted end user.

As part of our service offering and directly linked to how we work we do end-user testing and market feasability research for the products and ideas we work on.

Case study

The Shaft Lock compliant grasper

This is our most recent R&D project in the surgical instrument field, the safety integrated laparoscopic grasper. Based on compliant mechanics and designed for surgeons to operate with no hinderance and the peace of mind that unintended forces can be fully managed.

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The Shaft Lock grasper

Introducing our most recent R&D project in the surgical instrument field, the safety integrated laparoscopic grasper.

Based on compliant mechanics and designed for surgeons to operate with no hinderance and the peace of mind that unintended forces can be fully managed.

Currently our design is based around two mechanisms that can be integrated into standard laparoscopic graspers, either seperately or both together. Our first patended compliant mechanism is the Shaft-Lock which acts as a mechanical safety that makes sure that forces can not exceed a certain level, while still allowing for full functionality and range of grasping. Our second invention is the Tuneable Static Balancer, that works in tandem with a compliant tool-tip.

Based on research performed at the Technical University of Delft this mechanism improves the mechanical effeciency of the grasper allowing surgeons to fully feel any palpation made with the instrument.

The tuner allows us to get a much higher precision of balancing than prior designs and can even create precise under or over balancing based on the intended use case.

The project is in collaboration with the Technical University of Delft, MediShield B.V. and University Hospital of Iceland. Developement has been underway since 2019 and the project is a recpient of the Rannís Technical Innovation Grant.

In co-operation with our partners the start-up Tulipa Medical B.V. was founded in the Netherlands with the goal of marketing and licensing the products of this project.