마그네슘 인스트루먼트 판넬 모듈화 부품 개발

Instrument panel structure of future will incorporate more features that reduce the total number of components, enhance the vehicle crashworthiness and improve the body stiffness. These advantages, coupled with a potential for about 50% weight reduction due to advanced thin walled die-casting technology, will continue to give magnesium a definite advantage over other materials. In that point, modularized magnesium instrument panel structure was developed by some creative design concept, 45% weight saving compared to the steel structure. The cost disadvantage caused by using magnesium could be overcome by reduction of components and assembly labor. It has been prototyped by sand casting and die-casting machine, tested and evaluated.