← Industry & component applications
Lubrication, bonding & protection
Automotive applications
From moving mechanisms to camera and sensor assembly.
Automotive actuator lubrication
From the component and issue to material selection and sample evaluation.
Automotive mechanisms & connectors
Review small drives and electrical contacts separately
Separate moving contacts, electrical contacts and seals; review the design specification and actual assembly.
Miniature gears and actuators
- Contact location
- Working contacts in reduction gears, bearings and guides.
- Process review
- Compare cold starts, operating current and noise at matching application locations and doses.
Evaluation inputs
- Actual polymer, metal and elastomer materials
- Temperature, load, travel and duty cycle
- Current lubricant, application method and condition after cycling
Connectors and electrical contacts
- Contact location
- Terminal contact interfaces, distinguished from housing seals and mating surfaces.
- Process review
- Follow the design specification and evaluate contact resistance, mating force and wear under small motions together.
Evaluation inputs
- Plating, contact geometry and electrical requirements
- Mating cycles/force, vibration, temperature and humidity
- Application boundary, migration and adjacent materials
Mirror adjustment and power folding
- Contact location
- Separate glass-adjustment gears from folding worms and pivots.
- Process review
- For functional friction contacts, compare the required drive and slip torque against the design specification.
Evaluation inputs
- Adjustment/folding function and contact materials
- Cold-start conditions, operating current/torque and noise
- Specified lubricant/dose, retention and motion after cycling
