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Sensata Touts Smaller Brake Sensor
Attleboro, Mass.-based Sensata Technologies Inc. has developed a new brake pressure sensor that is smaller and lighter than current designs, allowing for improved packaging in hybrid and all-electric vehicles.
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Attleboro, Mass.-based Sensata Technologies Inc. has developed a new brake pressure sensor that is smaller and lighter than current designs, allowing for improved packaging in hybrid and all-electric vehicles.
The micro-fused strain gauge pressure sensor’s mass and diameter each have been reduced by more than 35%, thanks to a redesigned internal structure and spring contact system.
The smaller package is particularly well suited for electrified vehicles, which Sensata says typically require one or two additional brake sensors to achieve the brake feel of conventionally powered models. The company says its system can accommodate the additional sensors without increasing overall packaging volume.
In traditional vehicles, the new sensor can be used as part of an integrated brake module that eliminates the vacuum booster, the company says.
Sensata currently is in talks with several customers and expects to launch the new sensor in a production vehicle in 2018.
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