Years ago, one of the storage devices at the company I worked for, had a motor-start capacitor on the AC fan (that's how long ago it was!). This fan was an alternate vendor and we did not have many of them, and "conveniently", this particular fan was not part of the configuration that went through EMC testing. Guess what! We received a complaint from one of our customers that the heart monitor tapes that were sent back from patients to this medical facility were being wiped out when placed on top of our desk-high storage device. (Yes, they should not have used our product as a convenient shelf, but---- there are no excuses!)
We traced this back to the magnetic interference of this particular motor-start capacitor, and promptly purged these fans, apologized to the customer, sent replacements, etc. Yes, -- If we start implanting devices, we must make sure that we not wipe out another implanted device. This regulatory game can get very interesting! Tania Grant, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Lucent Technologies, Intelligent Network Unit Messaging Solutions Group ---------- From: Anil Allamaneni [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:26 PM To: EMC PSTC; Barry Ma Subject: RE: Implanted IC in brain I remember reading the news article about the British Professor who installed a chip in his forearm to control the doors, appliances etc in his house. Always wondered if he went through some kind of testing. It would not be far-fetched to imagine the time when people would consider wrist-watches, PDAs et al, too bulky to carry around and would rather prefer implanted versions of the same. Close interaction between the physicians and EMC guys is very possible in the near future as doctors and EMI guys try to fix people who are failing the limits or are causing neighbor's computer (or neighbors) to crash etc...etc. The approvals/compliance field is getting very complicated ............ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Barry Ma Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:14 PM To: EMC-PSTC Subject: Implanted IC in brain Hi, It seems not a pure friction to implant intelligent IC into human brains. Some people made prediction about this new breed of human being. Some are talking about downloading certain virtual sense from Internet. ... Let's put aside the feasibility and focus only on related EMC/Safety concerns. 1. If there going to be a wireless access from human brain to Internet, do we have the same Safety concern as cellular phone? 2. It would also be possible to directly communicate each other via brain ICs. We don't have to exchange thoughts by means of any language (spoken and written) or eye contact. ... Should we have EMC standards to regulate the emission level of brain waves and immunity capability for brain ICs? Thanks. Best Regards, Barry Ma <[email protected]> ANRITSU www.anritsu.com Morgan Hill, CA 95037 Tel. 408-778-2000 x 4465 _______________________________________________________________________ $1 million in prizes! 20 daily instant winners. AltaVista Rewards: Click here to win! http://shopping.altavista.com/e.sdc?e=3 _______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
