As a typical product of great industrial age, automobile is perfectly combined by machinery and electronics. A standard car consists of roughly 14,000 to 15,000 parts, and an OEM enjoys hundreds of suppliers. It follows that the automobile industry drives a huge social supply chain, which indeed effects the whole body of a country's economic strength. In addition, cars running at high speed are closely related to the life and safety of drivers and passengers. Especially today, with the great development of automotive electronics, connectors in the automobile industry has begun to show a trend of equal parts with mechanical components. In order to ensure safety, it is more important ever to choose reliable connector for cars.
In the electrical system of a car, considering the usage of the connector, the automotive ecu connectors are divided into these five series, namely body and chassis connector series, comfort system connector series, driver information system connector series, engine power system connector series and safety system connector series.
We also use those five systems to define and decompose all the connector systems used in a car. High quality automotive ecu connectors can meet a wide range of equipment requirements, from seat adjustment to body steering. The comfort system connector includes the convenient reflector adjustment, air conditioning adjustment, audio and voice-activated system, GPS system and so on, which not only improves the driving pleasure, but also enhances the added value of the automobile industry.
Driver information system also uses a large number of connectors. Through connecting sensors to every part of a car, automotive ecu connectors aggregate all the data from the running car in real time into the dashboard in front of the driver's eyes, constituting the entire driver information system. The system can monitor the safety, comfort and other overall performance of the vehicle in time.
The engine system, the core of the automobile, can be given full play to through provided optimized motor and optimized powertrain management system composed of high performance automotive ecu connectors, helping the engine adapt to the latest fuel consumption, emissions and safety operating environment requirements. In today's stringent safety standards for automobiles, automotive ecu connectors can be seen from blind spot control to anti-theft alarm system and airbag. Those products provide inside-out security protection and safety solutions for vehicles.
To sum up, although automotive ecu connectors belong to the connecter family, they are quite different from other connectors used in consumer electronics and industrial products. First of all, automotive ecu connectors are used in a huge amount in the OEMs, and different manufacturers have more or less different requirements of connectors to different vehicle models. Therefore, in the actual production and sales process, there will be more customized products than connectors used in other industries.
Secondly, because of the use of automotive ecu connectors in high-speed running automobiles, their products have a lot of vibration and friction during the running process, so a very high requirement is demanded in the wear resistance and shock resistance of the products.
Thirdly, the environment in which cars operate and work is, in some cases, relatively hostile, such as humidity and high temperature, so the special requirements are demanded in order for waterproof and high temperature resistance.
Finally, a car is a complex device. As the driver information system mentioned above requires a large number of complex electrical signals to be collected, automotive ecu connectors are required to have a higher density than the connector in other industries. The largest unit component transmission loop in the connector for cars can reach 125 channels.
