The cabin and the interiors are becoming even more important representing a significant competition issue and an innovation domain. The textiles presently used in the automotive field are mainly intended as a covering material with only an aesthetic function. On the one hand the textile and fabric domain is offering a wide choice of new materials that very often are multi-functional: temperature dependent air permeability, anti-bacterial, reflective, illuminated, membrane coupled, etc. On the other hand there is the need to transform the car cabin in a 'living room' where the comfort and well-being are the main issues and the increase of electronic contents makes allowable the possibility to manage it with active components (ventilated panel or seats, diffused illumination, integrated and diffused sensor or actuators, etc.). To achieve these goals the innovative textiles could play a key-rote, the main constraint is represented by the typical requirements of the automotive field: reliability, durability and cost. Some innovative applications of textile materials in the framework of passenger car evolution and related assessing methods are described: interior surfaces are made breathable with a special fabric cover to realize a revolutionary air conditioning system, sweating thermal modulus to assess the comfort properties of standard and innovative seats, mathematical model of the thermoregulatory system to estimate the effect an thermal comfort of clothing and environmental conditions. The textile materials represent a good opportunity to innovate the automotive interiors.
Textile applications in the automotive industry
Textile Anwendungen in der Automobilindustrie
2003
8 Seiten, 10 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 8 Quellen
Conference paper
Storage medium
English
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