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Position-Control Torque Arm System
A position-control torque arm system from Mountz improves and automates the fastening process while reducing manufacturing costs. The compact position-control device features a touch-screen display that is...
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Development Kit for Gesture Recognition
Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced a development kit for integrated 2D projective capacitive touch (PCAP) and 3D gesture recognition on displays. The DV102014 kit will provide designers access to...
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Advanced Materials for Catalysts
SDCmaterials will partner with Car Sound Exhaust System and supply the company with material for its catalytic converters. SDC's Nano-on-Nano formulation, applied to exhaust-treatment catalysts, requires as...
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New Dawn at Honda R&D
Honda’s new 10-speed automatic has not yet entered production, but it is already among the technologies that competitors are clamoring to benchmark when it enters the market. Designed and built in house, the new...
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Automated Driving Meets Regulation NHTSA and the Next 50 Years
HTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind recently spoke on the prospects for reaching zero deaths on America’s roads. “Conceptually, the challenge is extremely straightforward. If...
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Hands Off, Eyes Off, Brain Off
Euro NCAP’s president warns that without coherent policies, the growing availability of automated technologies may result in piecemeal technology development—and unintentional consequences. Read on to learn more.
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Designer Yin Meets Engineer Yang
The interface between design and engineering may be the oldest yin-and-yang in vehicle development. And while there are numerous challenges in turning the stylists’ work into practical, manufacturable and...
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The e-LSD alternative to AWD
Is engineering a new vehicle for all-wheel drive worth the cost, weight, and fuel consumption penalties for perhaps 10% of volume on some platforms?
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Enter Two New Plug-Ins: 2017 Outlander PHEV and Prius Prime
The best-selling plug-in hybrid (PHEV) in Europe makes its North American debut this Fall and was on display at the 2016 New York Auto Show. Americans may be surprised to know it's the...
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Send in Yamaguchi!
Ted Klaus is not given to hyperbole. So when the Chief Engineer of Honda’s 2017 NSX says something is “the best,” he means it. And that’s how Klaus described hearing Jack Yamaguchi’s first impressions of the...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
‘Supercars’ and Character Are Critical in the Autonomous Future
At the recent New York auto show, Automotive Engineering spoke with Keno Kato, Nissan’s corporate Vice President for Global Product Strategy & Product Planning. Kato,...
Global Vehicles Transportation
New York Auto Show 2016: Lincoln Unveils Big-SUV Future with Navigator Concept
Intent on staying on its message of reinvigorating its brand under the banner of “quiet luxury,” Ford’s premium-vehicle unit, Lincoln, used the 2016 New...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
IOP Tester for Ethernet ECUs
Automotive data communications company Ruetz System Solutions provides an interoperability test platform for Automotive Ethernet. The IOP tester operates within the framework of compliance tests for Automotive...
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Small-Diameter Springs and Rings
Smalley’s newly expanded manufacturing capabilities now allow its engineers to design and manufacture Smalley Wave Springs and Spirolox Retaining Rings as small as 4 mm (0.16 in) in diameter. The company...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Wireless, Batteryless Limit Switches
Steute Industrial Controls offers a comprehensive line of wireless, batteryless limit switches that feature an internal electrodynamic energy generator. Displacement of the actuator generates power to send...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
Connected Vehicles Will Be Hackers' Trophy
Cyber security has swiftly gone from a loose concept to an issue that rivals quality, safety and other mainstays of design must-haves. It’s a multi-faceted challenge that extends from simple...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Data Processing System for Acoustics and Vibration
The nCode brand of durability, test, and analysis software by HBM introduces nCode VibeSys, a new data processing system designed to help acoustics and vibration engineers ensure that their...
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Nautilus Claims Radical Advance in HCCI Engine Development
Claiming its novel base-engine design solves most of the intrinsic drawbacks that have slowed auto-industry development of homogenous-charge compression-ignition (HCCI) engines,...
Technology Report RF & Microwave Electronics
Electric Propulsion Is Now “Inescapable”
Though battery-powered vehicles haven’t yet met predicted sales levels, leading OEMs are bullish about the future, saying that newer generation vehicles now provide features and prices that...
Global Vehicles Transportation
Nissan Targets Cabin NVH, Makes Big Investment in Sentra Upgrade
Significant updates to the seventh generation Sentra make the 2016 model Nissan’s quietest and most dynamic-driving compact sedan to date. The automaker invested more than...
Global Vehicles Green Design & Manufacturing
Tesla's "Affordable" Model 3 Brings Technology Questions
The ravenous feeding habits of the 24-hour news cycle rarely turn toward automotive transportation, and usually only when a disaster has happened, such as Toyota’s acceleration mess...
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Defying the disruptors and Driving Innovation
Need proof of the auto industry’s crazy pace of change? Look no further than the daily news, where reports of each emergent player — and their impact on what remains of the status quo —...
Articles Propulsion
Preparing for a 48-volt Revival
More than a decade after the widely anticipated 42-volt electrical revolution died—the victim of increasingly efficient 12-volt components, wiring strategies, and digital controls—demand for greater...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive Manufacturing Enhances GTDI Pistons
The trend toward downsized gasoline turbo-charged direct-injected (GTDI) engines has raised peak combustion chamber pressures to 160 bar (2321 psi) and temperatures above 2000°C—nearly the...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Bidirectional ESD Protection Diodes
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has released two new bidirectional single-line ESD protection diodes in the compact SOD-323 package. Measuring 1.95 x 1.5 mm (0.077 x 0.06 in) with a low 0.95-mm (0.037-in)...
Global Vehicles Electronics & Computers
Hyundai Targets Prius with New 'Triple-Electrified' Ioniq
It's called the Ioniq, an all-new 2017 Hyundai model series offering an industry-first choice of three levels of electrified propulsion: battery electric (EV), plug-in (PHEV), or a...
Technology Report RF & Microwave Electronics
Chipmakers Gearing up for On-Board Wireless Charging
Smart phones are becoming an integral part of vehicle infotainment options, but this integration is putting a strain on the phone’s battery. In-vehicle wireless charging is increasingly...
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Toyota’s 'Trigger' for Innovation
“SAE is the ‘engineers’ foundation,’” reflected Seiya Nakao. “When I was a young engineer, we learned a lot from SAE, and personally this is a good opportunity for me to return something to it.”...
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New York Auto Show 2016: Mazda Reveals Retractable-Hardtop MX-5 RF
Moving quickly to expand the appeal of the all-new, fourth-generation MX-5 Miata roadster introduced last year, Mazda revealed prior to the 2016 New York auto show a folding...
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