Automotive Sensor Interconnects

The trend toward ‘smart’ (or ‘intelligent’) cars continues to build momentum as more electronic content, sensor products and wireless systems are added for enhanced performance, safety, comfort, convenience and communication. Increased regulations for road vehicles and car safety augment and accelerate the use of Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-road infrastructure communication and the sensors that support them. Within the automotive interconnect industry, trends such as decreasing overall size of automotive sensors, increasing preference of tin (Sn) plating for cost reasons and the predominance of solderless, compliant-pin technology have been observed.

Riding on these trends, Molex is developing smaller 0.5mm-type mating terminals for sensor interconnects that reduce the overall size of sensor packages with 0.64mm Compliant-pin PCB terminals. Molex is ready to configure and develop products according to customer specifications that help lower overall applied costs. Examples include a tire pressure monitoring system, a crash or airbag sensor, or an application that includes a Squib cable assembly for fail-safe operations in automotive safety-restraint systems.

From proposal to design through development to full manufacturing production, Molex gives customers optimum flexibility and the price-performance benefits for their strategic application investments. With a global interconnect R&D and manufacturing footprint fully integrated with quality, reliability and testing centers and expert engineering resources, Molex has the capability to help customers achieve greater product differentiation and enjoy strong competitive advantage in the global automotive market place.

Automotive/Commercial Vehicles

Air bag sensors
Driver assistance systems / convenience
Knock sensors
Mass airflow sensor
Parking sensors
Power Train
Pressure sensors
Radar sensors
Rollover sensors
Safety
Temperature sensors
Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS)