Advance Automotive Design with Pressure and Temperature Mapping  

Achieve deeper insights into vehicle performance, safety, reliability and comfort with Tekscan’s advanced surface sensing technologies — now including both pressure mapping and temperature mapping. From brake systems to battery modules, our thin, flexible sensors capture critical data between contacting surfaces to support better design, validation, and quality control.

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Pressure distribution between a brake pad and rotor

Tekscan’s patented sensing technology helps engineers measure pressure distribution and force dynamics across applications such as:

• Brake pad and rotor interfaces
• Tire tread patterns and contact area
• Wiper blade force profiling
• Seat comfort and occupant pressure
• Battery cell/module stacking and assembly

Now, with temperature mapping capabilities, you can visualize how heat propagates across surfaces during thermal events or mechanical interaction — helping identify hot spots and evaluate material response in real-world conditions.

Why Pressure & Temperature Mapping Matter:

• Design Validation - Quantify how components perform under load, over time — including lighter, fuel-efficient parts used in EV and autonomous vehicles.
• Electric & Fuel Cell Vehicle Innovation - Understand pressure and thermal behavior in critical areas like door seals, battery enclosures, and occupant ergonomics to meet evolving mobility needs.
• Battery System Development - Assess surface pressure and heat generation during each phase of battery assembly to improve formation, prevent failure, and ensure uniformity.

Application Areas Include:

	Brake Pressure Distribution Testing - The I-Scan shows where uneven pressures exist between surfaces, predicting wear and stress on the pad. This information can be used to reduce brake noise, vibration, and harshness through design improvements.
	Tire Tread & Footprint Analysis - Tekscan tire analysis solutions capture valuable interface pressure insights to study tire patch data for new tire engineering challenges. Intuitive, application-specific graphing and image analysis software enables quantitative and qualitative analysis of your tire design in ways the FEA cannot.
	Door Seal and Gasket Pressure Validation - Proper pressure adjustment of door seal during R&D or in the factory improves performance and eliminates wind, noise, and water leaks in a new vehicles.
	Automotive Seat Comfort and Pressure Mapping - Measure seating pressure changes for evolving automotive needs and challenges. Radically different modern vehicles, EVs, and autonomous vehicles designs change the dynamic relationship of seat back and cushion pressure.
	Battery Module Stack Pressure and Formation Monitoring -Get comprehensive data insights on pressure and temperature during stress testing, R&D and manufacturing production. Correlate temperature and pressure data.
	Crash Impact Surface Pressure Testing - With scanning speeds at up to 20 kHz, even extremely rapid strikes can be recorded to capture the dynamic pressure and impact force that are exerted during an impact. Identify the temporal, local, peak, and spatial pressures of two objects colliding.
	Engine Gasket and Powertrain Pressure Analysis - Pressure measurement is vital for gasket testing and implementation because it ensures seal integrity, helps select the right material, verifies performance, maintains safety, and optimizes the design.
	Wiper Blade Contact Force Analysis - Measure the pressure distribution between the windshield and the blade at various positions along blade length to provide key insight into how to improve performance.

"TMKK has been using the I-Scan system for the last two years, resulting in over 3,000 push/pull tests. The I-Scan provides our Safety and Engineering team with an accurate measuring devices to record push/pull forces on a majority of our parts. The Tekscan system is easy to use and very dependable and has helped improve our ergonomic initiative."

 

-John Whitaker, Assembly Safety Specialist, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky

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