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What's New at Congress 2002
February Issue
The SAE 2002 World Congress provides industry suppliers the opportunity to showcase their products, services, and technologies to the global automotive community.
AEI previews what some exhibiting companies plan to introduce or display—as of mid-January—at this year's event scheduled March 4-7 at Cobo Center in Detroit.
January Issue
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Diagnostic tools
 Diag3G and VCI PartX are new diagnostic tools from the ACTIA Group. Diag3G is a rugged, 400-MHz PC-based service tool with standard interfaces including USB, Ethernet, RS232, and PCMCIA. Compact and lightweight, it incorporates a hard disk, a CD or DVD drive, a VCI, a 10.4-in TFT display with touch screen, and a NiMH battery with its charger. VCI PartX is also a rugged, PC-based wireless communication interface designed for end-of-line diagnostic. It supports TCP/IP protocols and a high-speed CAN bus to download software to the relevant ECU quickly and efficiently during vehicle manufacture.
Fastening system
 The AKH Fas-ner solves problems inherent with other joining methods. Benefits of the system include the ability to join precoated metals as well as dissimilar metals, electrical continuity at the joint, visual joint quality confirmation, elimination of plating bleed-out, a vibration-resistant solid joint, quality consistency from joint to joint, and high corrosion resistance throughout the joint. The system is a simple punch and die operation that automatically feeds, punches, inserts, and locks the self-piercing, flush-mounted Fas-ner to produce a solid joint in one high-cycle operation.
Antenna
 Amplifier Research's Radiant Arrow 80 is a compact, wide-band, high-gain, true log-periodic antenna that covers the 80 MHz to 4.2 GHz frequency band. It is designed primarily for immunity applications requiring a directive antenna to illuminate large test objects at high field levels. Its beam width is long enough for large test objects. It accepts up to 4000 W input and is portable and easy to assemble. The product's unique "bent-element" design and small size keep tips further away from the walls of shielded enclosures than traditional designs, reducing reflections and other effects that disturb fields directed at the EUT. A larger antenna of similar design and capability, the Radiant Arrow 26—26 MHz to 4.2 GHz—offers more coverage at the lower end of the frequency spectrum.
Blind threaded studs
 SpinTite Type AES blind threaded studs from Atlas Engineering provide strong external threads in blind attachment applications for automotive components such as when only one side of a workpiece is accessible for fastener installation and assembly. The threaded steel studs can serve as an alternative to tapped holes, weld nuts, rivets, and self-drilling or tapping screws. They can also act as a locating element when joining two components.
System design environment
 iQBus from Avant! Corp. is a complete design process solution offering specification entry, system tradeoffs, component development, and links to manufacturing. It is a database-centric development environment with a single point of data entry. The product supports the design of entire vehicles, system architectures, mechatronic systems, X-by-wire systems, hybrid systems, bus systems, power systems, cabling, and other vehicle design applications. It includes a mixed-technology simulator, Saber, for automated design verification and testing. It provides concurrency for using schematics contributed from different engineering departments and also offers several tools to capture and create models from any kind of data available. The model library contains 30,000 parts—ranging from various high-level control blocks to physical component implementations—from different engineering domains. Software and hardware can be designed in a virtual design environment with software-in-the-loop, including instruction set processor models, down to real hardware-in-the-loop.
Combustion diagnostics
 AVL Visiolution sensor and data-processing technology monitors flame events in standard, multicylinder engines and demonstrates potential improvement areas of the combustion system. The sensor technology is based on the use of optical fibers and micro-optic front elements. Standard applications include flame propagation stability diagnostics at low- and part-load conditions, and the location of knock centers at high- and full-load and of combustion events caused by rich mixture regimes, hot spot ignition, or homogenous compression ignition.
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