SOME PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY CONNECTORS’

Abstract

Electrical connectors are very sensitive parts in an electronic system. The actual meaning of reliability and the problems associated with determining it, are often not right understood. The paper presents some particular aspects of the automotive industry connectors’ i.e. fretting, fretting corrosion prevention, aluminium connections. The performance factors governed by the operating conditions and design-technology factors determined by the manufacturing characteristics of a contact unit were analyzed.

Keywords

• connector failures
• microsensors and micromechatronic actuators
• reliability
• thick film technology
• fretting
• fretting corrosion
• connector standards