SCHOTT North America

Housings for ESP Gyro Sensors and Crash Sensors

A yaw rate sensor detects how fast a vehicle is turning on its own axes and whether, for example, it has started skidding or overturning. Crash sensors pick up on the kind of changes typical of accidents, such as vibration and sudden braking. The components of these sensors are extremely sensitive and require effective protection.

Product Description

These sensors, which are generally installed in a vehicle’s interior in either the B-pillar or headliner, are extremely sensitive and must be effectively protected to ensure continuous operation. Glass-to-metal sealed feedthroughs ensure that the sensors are provided with power while simultaneously sealing them hermetically.

Product Advantages

Glass-to-metal sealed feedthroughs hermetically seal components, thus ensuring that the long-term accuracy and precision of these sensitive electronic components is maintained. The current feedthroughs can be used for nearly all common sensor models and are manufactured according to customer requirements.

Applications

Rotation speed sensors are necessary for controlling and activating the electronic stability control unit (ESC). In the USA, the use of ESCs in new vehicles will become required in 2011.

Other areas of potential application include navigation systems, where gyro sensors can provide data, for example, on navigating corners in the absence of satellite signals when maneuvering through tunnels etc.

Technology

To ensure the reliable hermeticity of these housing components, glass-to-metal sealing technology is used. Please click on this page for more information.

The feedthroughs are manufactured in pressure glazing technique and can be plated with nickel and gold according to customer requirements.

Features / Specifications

Our products are all custom-made. Please contact your local salesperson for more information.

Forms of Supply and Product Packaging

All products can be packaged individually and supplied on trays.

Quality Assurance

All our Automotive Division production facilities are TS 16949 certified. For more information, please refer to our quality assurance processes.

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SCHOTT North America, Inc.

122 Charlton Street
Southbridge, MA 01550
USA

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