Vacuumschmelze at this year's VDI Congress
Hanau, Frankfurt/Germany (vacuumschmelze) – Hanau-based Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG will attend this year's international congress of the Association of German En-gineers (VDI), held in Baden-Baden and entitled "Vehicle Electronics". At stand number 64, the company will focus on presenting its range of auto-motive inductors. Held this year for the fifteenth time, the VDI congress will take place at the Kongresshaus on 12th and 13th October. It is attended by decision-makers and experts from vehicle manufacturers, suppliers and service providers, who take advantage of the event's function as a commu-nication platform where they can exchange ideas and experiences. VAC components are used in a variety of automotive control systems. Inductors from the Hanau-based company help to increase the efficiency of today's com-bustion engines - for example, by continuously improving the performance of control devices for fuel injection systems. A further method of saving energy - as ever, a major topic - is to use electrical systems to replace the hydraulic systems still in widespread use in cars. Com-mon-mode chokes made from Vitroperm® minimise electric motor interfer-ence in electric steering units. Vitroperm® is a high permeability, soft mag-netic material capable of operation at temperatures up to 180°C. Thanks to its high permeability, components incorporating Vitroperm® are typically up to three times smaller than equivalent designs using conventional ferrites. In the field of electric vehicles, VAC supplies a wide range of inductive compo-nents based on its own advanced materials as well as conventional magnetic materials to enable the production of the lowest loss, most compact DC-DC con-verters currently available. In addition to the main theme of electric vehicles, topics addressed at this year's congress in Baden-Baden in October will include complexity management in global structures and markets, focusing on China as an example; driver assis-tance systems; passenger and pedestrian protection technologies; on-board networks system architecture and components.