Body - Products

Materials improve surface protection W. L. Gore & Associates’ Gore Skyflex Aerospace Materials provide improved protection against chafing and abrasion in both rotary and fixed wing aircraft surfaces. Read full story

Airbag inflators A further improvement of TRW’s DI10 family of airbag inflators, the DI10.1G45 inflator is the company’s lightest and smallest inflator to date. Read full story

LED lighting Osram Opto Semiconductors’ Oslon LX is an affordable LED for widespread application in the automotive sector, providing visual and technical enhancements to automobiles from high-end to entry-level segments. Read full story

Light management 3M's Uniform Lighting Lens technology is a light management solution that uses a precision-engineered, micro-patterned polycarbonate that provides even illumination when used as an inner lens in light-emitting diode (LED) taillamp designs. Read full story

Ultra-low power consumption MCUs Renesas Electronics’ RH850/F1x series of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) for automotive body applications combines ultra-low power consumption and high performance with various memory size and package options. Read full story

History of automobile safety book Dr. Roger F. Wells’ Occupant Protection and Automobile Safety in the U.S. since 1900, published by SAE International, offers a look at the progression of automotive safety systems and examines how automotive companies, consumers, and political leaders affected that development. Read full story

Door lock gear motors Johnson Electric’s new door lock motor product line for the automotive industry delivers high performance with the lowest power budget. Read full story

Single-stage, off-line LED driver ICs Manufactured and developed by Allegro MicroSystems' subsidiary Sanken Electric, the LC5540LD/LF single-stage, power-factor-corrected, off-line LED driver integrated circuit (IC) series has robust functions developed to simplify system designs. Read full story

Multilock coupler Dromone Engineering’s multilock coupler was designed to improve safety and allows operators to complete attachment changes without leaving the cab. Read full story