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Voice control for comfort beds expands Smart Home range

Published 6 July 2020

With a full voice control solution for adjustable comfort beds, LINAK helps bed manufacturers and bed brands enter the future of home automation. It includes everything you need and is designed for easy set-up – for you and for the consumer.

Select the right control box for your healthcare application

Published 23 June 2020

Need a CA40, CO61 or a CO71? The new Control Box Selector helps developers and designers of adjustable healthcare applications everywhere avoid hassle and to easily find the right control box for their next system.

Lifting column LC3 now available in a 2-stage version

Published 2 June 2020

Another powerful movement option is now available for medical equipment manufacturers. The new LC3 2-stage completes the family of columns for solid lifting. It is equally quiet, safe, and powerful, making it ideal in X-ray equipment, C-arms or applications where a high dynamic bending moment is required.

Multi-button hand control HB190, perfect for advanced movement

Published 26 May 2020

LINAK introduces a brand new hand control, making the handling of complex movement in adjustable medical equipment easier than ever before. The HB190 comes with 19 buttons, 21 LEDs and a wealth of practical features, all easy to navigate and control – right at your fingertips.

HB200 - wireless hand control for your healthcare equipment

Published 7 April 2020

Now it is possible to offer a wireless hand control for your healthcare application. The new easy-to-clean HB200, designed primarily for home care beds, dialysis chairs and treatment couches, gives care staff extended space to move around the patient and minimises the risk of tripping over cables.

CO53 adds an extra BUS port to your healthcare equipment

Published 20 March 2020

LINAK now releases a 5-channel control box with two OpenBus™ ports. This allows customers to add an extra feature/accessory to their application, without adding a modular junction box (MJB).

LINAK OPS to power heat pads in healthcare equipment

Published 10 March 2020

A new OpenBus™ power supply from LINAK allows manufacturers of healthcare applications, such as treatment couches and treatment chairs, to add heat pads to the equipment without worrying about power shortage.

Hand controls that fit into the modern bedroom

Published 20 February 2020

Design matters to consumers. It should matter to you as well.

Falling asleep to your TV is no longer a problem

Published 3 February 2020

LINAK® introduces a brand new ‘Sleep Timer’ function with the hand control HC40. The advanced editions of HC40 FRAME™ and HC40 TWIST™ will both come with this new feature as standard, providing extra comfort for consumers and giving bed brands an extra branding option – Provider of good sleep!

Add more capacity to your mobile healthcare equipment

Published 24 January 2020

The new LINAK® port junction box PJB4 allows you to apply up to three powerful Li-Ion batteries BA21 (3 x 2.25 Ah) to the actuator system of your medical application.

LINAK releases new videos focused on boosting employee productivity and happiness with sit-stand desks

Published 21 January 2020

What are the benefits of adding sit-stand desks to the office? From creating an active and healthy work environment to getting more from your employees, LINAK answers this question and shows how sit-stand desks create value for both employers and their employees.

Find out what consumers actually think!

Published 12 December 2019

A large group of comfort bed users were asked for facts about habits and preferences, before we started designing the hand control HC40. Here is what we discovered.
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