Automotive

Enhance product design, manufacturing, quality, and research in the Automotive industry with our pressure mapping systems.

Enhance Automotive Product Design with Pressure Mapping

Pressure distribution between a brake pad and rotor

Tekscan's patented sensor technology can assist with automotive seat comfort studies, measuring brake pad pressure distribution, tire tread patterns, wiper blade force profiles, and much more. Knowing and controlling the pressure between any two surfaces over time has implications in design efficiently, quality control, manufacturing costs, and product longevity.

The ability to map interface provides key information including total force, peak pressures, and center of force. Consider

Design validation
- A better understanding of surface behavior helps verify structural integrity of lighter, fuel efficient, cost saving components
EV engineering brings new design challenges
- Car profiles, weight distribution and passenger ergonomics need to be rethought for EV, fuel cell, and autonomous vehicle design
- Battery design requires a careful understanding of pressure at every phase and in each component of battery assembly
Application specific automotive pressure sensors and software analysis tools
- Tire, wiper, door seal, impact, engine gasket, brake, seat, and ergonomics

Hover over the icons on the images shown below to learn about our diverse array of automotive pressure mapping applications.

Tekscan's tactile pressure and force systems measure the interface pressures between two mating surfaces, and are used throughout the automotive industry to assist engineers with test and measurement, research and development, and quality control applications.

Research & design, quality control, and manufacturing tool
- Improve yields
- Identify failure modes
- Reduce downtime
- Assist in machine set-up
- Vendor validation