New-Tech Europe Magazine | March 2018

Product Technology: Panasonic passive component: Power choke coil and hybrid capacitors.

Stephane Ngandeu Latta, Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe components, Engineers are facing the problem to improve their electronic design, by improving the thermal management, low power consumption, high efficiency, low power losses. As the amount of ECU's in the car increase and that more ECUs have to full fill more functionality in less space, the question is:

For a decade the car was an instrument used for mobility purpose. Allowing people to move from one location to another and therefore improving the life quality of humanity. Nowadays, a car is not only used for mobility purpose but comfort, high speed, high efficiency, low consumption, less CO2, high security are all the requirements making the development of new model car more complex than for a decade. Means in the future, features (entertainment system, new infotainment system, New display....) in the car are more required and important. In order to fulfil the future requirements, the number of ECUs has drastically increased over last decade. In the modern car today there is more than 3km cable and more than 300 ECUs. By such an increase of electronics

engine system. In the latest high temperature, high current, high vibration are the requirements. In order to fulfil those requirements, Panasonic is permanently improving their products by introducing new material technology. In this article I will describe the technology for two of Panasonic passive components and why this product can fulfil automotive application requirements. For this purpose i will describe two main automotive application and their requirements. Lighting: Feel Save, Drive Safe (from Philipps), or No Light, no vision (From company Hella) Approximately 30% of all accidents occur at night, the human brain absorbs 90% of all information through eyes. Lighting is essential

"How to improve the thermal management, to have a low power consumption, high efficiency, less power losses not to mention the improve EMC behaviour in one ECU, where design space is very limited and more functionality is required?" Tier1 company and electronic component supplier are facing the difficulty to develop product with high performance but miniaturized. Requirements for electronic components are increasing more and more from interior system to

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