VEHICLE INTERIOR

Vehicle interior air quality (organics emission from components)... 

Startup time, from cold start at -25°F (—32°C), with 28 V power and vehicle interior temp, rises to above 32°F (0°C) in 10 min. 

Smith, R.L and Baines, Th.M. (1982) Nitrosamines in Vehicle Interiors, SAE Technical Paper Series 820785, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA, USA. 

Firing location and duration of exposure—Firing from confined spaces, for example, doorways, small rooms, vehicle interiors, will tend to expose the firer to a more residue-laden environment for a longer than normal period of time consequently, it will take the FDR longer to disperse and the chances of FDR from the muzzle being deposited are increased. 

The single most important factor in the avoidance of contamination problems is good housekeeping. This applies to all aspects of trace residue examination procedures, and includes police vehicle interiors, custody offices, cells, sampling rooms, and sampler s premises. 

Automotive Components Tires, Plastics Rubber Brake Products Transmissions Suspensions Vehicle Interiors Sealing Systems Aviation Products Protective Clothing... 

TCP is used as a plasticizer in vinyl plastics, as a flame-retardant, and as an additive to extreme pressure lubricants. The main market for PVC-based products plasticized with organic phosphate esters is in the manufacture of automobile and other motor vehicle interiors in the USA. 

A major role of the chemist in interior design is to utilize coatings and stabilizers to improve the appearance and life of the product and protect the part from physical and chemical stress. The automobile industry is setting higher standards to fulfill the stabilization requirements for vehicle interior coatings. Some of the materials utilized in interior applications were listed in Chapter 3. 

Briickmann, R., and Gottlieb, W., Spatial Perception of Vehicle Interior, in Proceedings of Virtual Reality World 95 (Stuttgart, February 21-23), IDG, Munich, 1995, pp. 459-461. 

The formulation passes the FMVSS 302 (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard) test used for the assessment of the burning behavior of materials used for vehicle interiors. A specimen of 35.5 X 10.0 X max. 13 cm is mounted horizontally and ignited for 15 sec. The rate of flame spread should not exceed 10 cm/min.]... 

Textiles and artificial leather for vehicle interiors, carbon look and imitation wood foils for the dashboard, paint foils in the car color for radiator masks, decor strips, and door sUls. The remaining difficulties include the class A surface quality demanded by carmakers as well as so-called color-matching (same optical impression of sheen and color adjacent to conventionally painted parts). In these fields, the back injection process competes more directly with painting processes than with laminating processes. Here as well, this technology offers excellent opportunities for greater cost efficiency in future production processes (Figs. 28 and 29). 

Recreational Vehicle Interior Components, Window Blisters Tote Bins, Pallets, Trays... 

The FMVSS 302 Test for Flammability of Vehicle Interior Materials [64]... 

The test is a horizontal fire propagation test performed in a metal cabinet using 102-mm-wide and 356-mm-long polymer sample. Fire propagation rate and bnm-ing time are used as the selection criteria. A polymer that does not bum nor transmit a flame front across its surface at a rate of more than 102 mm/min (1.7 mm/s) is acceptable as a vehicle interior material. If a polymer stops burning after 60 s of heat exposure and has not burned more than 51 mm from the point where the timing was started, it is considered to meet the bum-rate requirement. 

Console Vehicles of the early 1900s had bench seats and no consoles. As the amount of plastic trim in the vehicle interior increased, consoles gradually came into use [1]. The original consoles were made from ABS or ABS/PC and painted. In the early 1990s automotive companies started considering PP as a possible replacement for these resins to decrease cost. 

This is an area for FDMU that the acoustics of the vehicle interior is depicted for each vehicle variant for each passenger in each seat position to ensure that decisions on the design of the overall system can be represented entirely. The scenario describes a system for automatic volume control of (at least) two active sound sources. In this scenario, a person is in the vicinity of the two sound sources. His position, and, therefore, the distances from the sound sources can be changed. Both sound sources emit varying signals, e.g. music from a stereo system. In the area noise is present too, compromising the clarity of the music. Another part of the system is a microphone which detects the total sound pressure in the interior of the vehicle. Total sound pressure is composed of both the music and from the noise. 

Treny and Duperray [32] have pointed out that issues of human comfort relating to noise and vibration are one of the major priorities for materials structural research and development in the field of transportation. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) testing provides a way to characterise in an accurate manner the viscoelastic properties of all the material used in vehicle interiors. Using a unique database software allowed easy material selection according to their viscoelastic properties. An approach for the optimisation of materials through the combination of selective database software and specific numerical calculation methods, to predict the final acoustic behaviour during the materials selection and systems development period are presented. 

Ammonium octamolybdate (AOM), (NH4)4Mos026 [12411-64-2], a shghtly water-soluble crystalline salt, is a smoke suppressant for PVC (15). It is used in wire and cable, mass transit vehicle interiors, and carpet backing. It is beheved to work by forming a barrier and by modifying the decomposition of the PVC. 

Figure 8.4 Two-cavity mould for vehicle interior strips, for cascade moulding. The nozzle opening sequence is determined by the position of the screw during injection [2]...

Injection onto textile linings, or in-mould lamination (IML), has seen continuing development in recent years because of demand from the automobile industry. This method is used to mould strips, covers, screens and linings for vehicle interiors from PP, ABS and ABS-PC with a textile surface. 

Figure 9.16 illustrates a solution to this problem for a two-cavity mould for vehicle interior components weighing 1.2 kg. The HR system is made up of two separable units ... 

Scheibner, W., UMch, K., Neudeck, A., Moehring, U., 2011. Textile Sensors for the Vehicle Interior. Textilforschungsinstitut Thiiringen-Vogtland e.V. (TITV), Greiz. www.ama-sci ence.org/home/getFile/AGH5 (accessed 15.07.13.). 

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