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Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc: Hitachi Echelon Oval MRI system is a diagnostic imaging device (one unit per package) and is intended to provide the physician with physiological and clinical information, obtained non-invasively and without the use of ionizing radiation.
- Recall number
- Z-2564-2014
- Recalling firm
- Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc
- Product
- Hitachi Echelon Oval MRI system is a diagnostic imaging device (one unit per package) and is intended to provide the physician with physiological and clinical information, obtained non-invasively and without the use of ionizing radiation.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2014-08-18
- Posted
- 2014-09-02
- Terminated
- 2015-09-14
- Reason
- The Gradient Coil was found to have a failure mode that allowed it to overheat and become a burn hazard.
- Root cause
- Device Design
- Action
- Letters will be sent to customers. Hatachi Serivce will be sent to each site to exchange the Gradient Coil Assembly.
- Quantity
- 39 systems
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution: US (nationwide) including states of: CA, DE, FL, ID, KS, KY, MD, MS, NY, OH, and WY; countries of: Japan, Brazil, France, Germany, and Kyrgyzstan.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Product Codes: Y001, Y002, Y003, Y004, Y005, Y006, Y007, Y008, Y009, Y010, Y011, Y012, Y014, Y015, Y016, Y101, Y102, Y103, Y105, and Y951. To be updated as firm submits information.
- 510(k) numbers
- K113145
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- LNH
- Firm FEI
- 1528028
- Firm city
- Twinsburg
- Firm state
- OH
- Firm country
- not on file
Where this comes from
- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
- sha256
- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
- Source file
- Source file retained · verify
- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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