SNR Received the 2008 Mechatronics Awards Grand Prix for Its ASB3 Load Sensor Technology

Mecha­tron­ics Awards are the first mecha­tron­ics tro­phies cre­at­ed with­in the frame­work of the mecha­tron­ics SCS Fair (spe­cial­ized in mecha­tron­ics, elec­tric tech­nolo­gies, au­toma­tion for in­dus­tri­al per­for­mance and en­er­gy of com­pa­nies) which took place on 2nd De­cem­ber 2008 in Paris. It is a great in­no­va­tion for this trans­verse tech­nol­o­gy which con­cerns all the mar­kets. Or­ga­nized by ARTEMA, CE­TIM, SCS and THE­SAME, the tro­phies were award­ed by a jury com­posed of tech­ni­cal ex­perts and spe­cial­ized me­dia jour­nal­ists.

The all cat­e­gories Grand Prix was award­ed to SNR in­no­va­tion for its 3rd gen­er­a­tion of in­stru­ment­ed bear­ing load sen­sor. Faced with high com­pe­ti­tion, this tro­phy is a new strong mecha­tron­ics in­no­va­tion for SNR. The com­pa­ny al­ready boasts the suc­cess of ASB®, be­come a world stan­dard for wheel speed, to­day equip­ping 8 of 10 ­most sold ve­hi­cles in Eu­rope.

To know more about the AS­B3® load sen­sor:

SNR de­vel­oped a bear­ing in­te­grat­ing gauges mea­sur­ing, un­der op­er­a­tion, the mi­cro-dis­tor­tions around the ring, gen­er­at­ed by the loads. What for? Let us take the ex­am­ple of au­to­mo­tive where em­barked elec­tron­ics spreads: AS­B3® bear­ing mea­sures the loads dis­tribut­ed on each wheel (from 500 ­to 800 kg) and thus the tyre road con­tact. This in­for­ma­tion im­proves the ef­fi­cien­cy of the tra­jec­to­ry con­trol sys­tem (ESP). Sev­er­al SNR patents were de­posit­ed to pro­tect this con­cept.

Be­yond the au­to­mo­tive mar­ket, this tech­nol­o­gy could al­so ap­ply to other in­dus­tri­al sec­tors such as con­struc­tion ma­chi­nes, robotics or even wind mills. In all cas­es, such in­no­va­tion re­quires me­chan­i­cal know-how, but al­so in elec­tric, elec­tron­ic and em­barked soft­ware fields: a sci­en­tific mix of com­pe­tences which SNR proved it had.