Tyre sensor records the rubber on the road

Novel tyre sensor records measurements must faster, enabling an engineer to actually drive a tyre over the sensor to capture information about the point of contact.

Xsensor Technology has been working to develop new tools for tyre testing customers.

Based on input from companies such as Nokian, Bridgestone, Kumho, and Goodyear, Xsensor has some exciting innovations to release this year.

The first innovation is the release of a new tyre sensor to its automotive testing product line.

"We're concentrating our efforts in the automotive test market in early 2008".

"There is a lot of potential in our current framework to support the work of test engineers and the products they hope to build".

"We are confident Xsensor can meet their needs with this next generation of tools", says Karl Schilling, Xsensor's Director of International Sales.

Two specific needs are met by the new tyre sensor that Xsensor has just released (model number IX500:128.128.10); the needs for speed and more durability.

Speed of measurement in the new sensor is a significant step forward.

Other available tyre sensors involve placing a tyre on a pressure sensor, which is situated on a flat surface.

Though important, this type of analysis can only offer a static pressure image, not one that simulates real-world activity.

Xsensor's new tyre sensor records measurements must faster enabling an engineer to actually drive a tyre over the sensor to capture information about the point of contact, or so-to-speak, see how the "rubber hits the road".

This is a crucial type of analysis which was not easily performed until now.

To give test engineers the flexibility to leave the controlled lab environment, Xsensor has enhanced its sensor technology so that it can be used in a variety of outdoor environments.

Engineers can analyse the effect that soil, sand, and other outdoor materials have on the tyre tread by placing those materials on the sensor and under the pressure of the tyre.

Engineers now have the capability to do new analysis that has not been readily possible.

"This new sensor provides just as accurate and repeatable results as the other tyre sensors in our product line".

"This new sensor adds breadth in our tyre sensor portfolio - it is simply an answer to the needs of our customers in the automotive test world".

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