eMobility
eMobility Engineered Materials: Battery Thermal Runaway Prevention
Safeguard your electric vehicle with Boyd’s comprehensive eMobility engineered material solutions, addressing the critical lithium-ion battery thermal runaway concerns. Enable your EV battery designs to proactively and safely prevent thermal runaway events and quickly isolate extreme heat or fire in the unlikely event battery safety design features fail to prevent cell-to-cell propagation. Our EV battery thermal runaway protection employs multi-functional, complex solutions designed for cell-to-cell application that absorb impact, vibration and movement, dissipate cell heat, and act as a flame or heat barrier and isolator in the event of a catastrophic battery event. Explore integrated assemblies with heat spreaders, compression pads, and flame-rated electrical insulation to ensure the utmost safety for your EV battery designs.
Prevent Thermal Runaway in EV Batteries
Maintain homogenous temperatures across battery cells, enable faster charge/discharge cycles, reduce battery overheating, isolate catastrophic battery events when they happen, or better yet, prevent them from ever happening with Boyd’s advanced eMobility engineered material solutions.
Protect Batteries Against Collision Impact
Enhance consumer safety and reduce warranty expenses by protecting battery compartments in the event of a collision with ruggedized impact-absorbing seals.
How to Cool and Protect EV Batteries Against Collision and Thermal Runaway
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Battery Housing Seals and Collision Protection
Battery compartments, enclosures and housings must be waterproofed and protected against contamination from road debris, precipitation, oil, dirt, and many other environmental factors for high reliability performance over the life of the vehicle. Batteries are exposed to extremely harsh road vibration and potential sudden impact. Battery housing seals, gaskets and damper pads are designed to withstand and absorb this variable force, vibration and extreme impact, minimizing the detrimental impact on the battery and reducing warranty costs. Seals and gaskets are ruggedized to withstand repeat and instantaneous shock, vibration, impact and friction without degrading performance.
Extend Battery Range and Life
Boyd’s lightweight, high performance sealing solutions enable you to design ruggedized batteries that withstand harsh road conditions for extended battery range and life.
Automotive Displays, Telematics and Infotainment Systems
Telematics and infotainment have converged into smart interior electronics that enrich the driver experience and improve safety from smart touch screens, intuitive heads up displays (HUDs), and backlit membrane switches, to comprehensive telematics including preventive maintenance intelligence, information management, and vehicle networking. Boyd’s solutions help OEMs innovate these cutting-edge vehicle features while reducing weight and maintaining reliability.Infotainment Ruggedization and Optimization
Boyd’s innovative engineered material solution protect, seal, and cool electronic components to reduce warranty costs and improve consumer safety with reliable, stable performance over the vehicle’s lifetime. Differentiated consumer comfort and convenience electronics create competitive advantage and influence consumer demand. Large, thin, lightweight, rich display screens or rugged switch interfaces optimized for outdoor environments improve customer experience without adding significant weight or power consumption.
Human Machine Interface (HMI) Solutions for the eMobility Industry
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Boyd’s Display Solution Heritage and Expertise
Boyd has sealed, bonded, protected, enhanced and cooled demanding displays in smartphones for years as the primary innovation partner for world leading OEMs – a vast experience that eMobility telematics and infotainment designers are leveraging for accelerated innovation. Boyd waterproofs electronic components against unpredictable user and weather environments. We ruggedize components against harsh road conditions, extreme vibration and sudden impact. We shield and insulate complex electronics operating in close proximity from interfering with one another. We block and shield heat and spark voltage emitted from electronic components. Resulting in an automotive display with enhanced consumer safety and comfort.
Efficiently Blend Enduring Functionality and Features into Your Brand
Custom-engineered solutions combine aesthetics, resilience, and function with outstanding quality. Clearly define your brand with Boyd’s broad range of materials, finishes, and decorative trims in a variety of interior, exterior, and under-the-hood formats – from body side badges, airbag logos, and PRNDLs to backlit sill plates. Leverage our material expertise and versatility, durability, and decorative range of high-quality plastics to develop efficient solutions to balance sustainability and light weighting requirements and stay beautiful in even the most challenging environmental conditions. Introduce more features with Boyd’s electromechanical switch assemblies and key fobs, backlit electronic keypads, and smart display technology to enhance the tactile experience with durability, vivid light quality, and energy efficiency.
Automotive Manufacturing and Quality
Boyd’s automotive production facilities are certified to IATF 16949 quality management systems – ensuring the highest level of automotive grade quality management throughout design, prototyping and mass production. IATF 16949 certified operations are available in North America, Europe and Asia for replicated regional design and production.
Reduce Weight and Create More Available Design Space
Create streamlined, multi-functional solutions using Boyd’s holistic approach to integrated sealing system design that considers full vehicle system demand to help OEMs reduce weight, create additional available design space, & maximize energy use.
Introduce New Models Faster
Rapidly iterate designs by leveraging Boyd’s quick design cycles & prototyping to create a competitive advantage in speed to market, enabling OEMs to introduce new models faster for earlier market access.
Solve Sustainability Regulations of the Future
Boyd’s globally available, in-region IATF certified manufacturing & longstanding partnerships with eMobility, electric vehicle, hybrid electric vehicle & autonomy innovators influence how we exceed rigorous safety & regional environmental requirements, anticipate evolving consumer needs, & solve sustainability regulations of the future.
Ruggedize Batteries to Withstand Environmental Exposure
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Rugged Road Conditions
The automotive industry constantly pushes performance, increases fuel efficiency, and offers superior cabin comfort and passenger safety with cost-effective solutions. Automotive manufacturers persistently innovate and incorporate new technologies into vehicles to improve performance, light-weighting and user experience. They rely on high-performance solutions that keep drivers and passengers sealed from harsh environments, protected with insulation and advanced safety systems, and comfortable with effective HVAC and infotainment systems.
Boyd: Innovating Lightweight, Reliable Solutions
Boyd is an adept design, testing, and manufacturing partner for automotive sealing, protection and insulation solutions. We develop high-performance solutions at low landed costs that meet the rigorous demands of the automotive industry. Through our experienced design and manufacturing teams, working in our ISO 9001, and IATF 16949 certified facilities, Boyd creates complex assemblies that integrate multiple functions into single components that exceed automotive specifications as well as reduce assembly time, assembly complexity, and overall costs.
Automotive Sealing Solutions
To keep sensitive components and passengers safe and dry, vehicles need sealing solutions like gaskets, rubber extrusions and multi-layered bonding and adhesive systems. Boyd is an ideal partner for demanding, high performance sealing products and assemblies for the Automotive industry. Our engineering team partners with you to translate requirements and conditions to automotive-specified raw materials for desired performance, while our manufacturing’s high-volume precision converting and multi-material integration enables quality production. Whether your requirements call for advanced gaskets with complex geometries, multi-material or reinforced elastomer extrusions, or integrated over molded solutions, Boyd can assist you, even in Class 100 to 100K certified clean room environments.
Automotive Protection Solutions
Vehicles require multiple levels of protection to ensure a long useful lifetime. On-board components need protection from harsh road conditions like rain, snow, sand, salt, shock, and vibration. Drivers and passengers need protection from engine heat, NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) and BSR (buzz, squeak and rattle). Protection films and adhesive systems keep brand new surfaces safe and unscratched during shipping and high friction and wear surfaces lasting longer.
Boyd has decades of experience manufacturing a broad range of protection solutions for Automotive OEMs and Tiers. We produce protective solutions like static cling films to keep surfaces scratch-free during the shipping and assembly process, tough floor mats to keep interiors lasting longer and precision converted UHMW films used for anti-abrasion protective gaskets that reduce BSR in the interior of the vehicle.
Vehicle Electrification
There is a revolution in vehicle electrification. More vehicles are integrating advanced electronic systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning. View our eMobility page for more information on Boyd solutions for hybrid, electric, and autonomous vehicles.
Automotive Precision Converting Capabilities
With Boyd’s high-speed, precision converting manufacturing capabilities, we provide die cut thermal management solutions throughout the vehicle. From precision converted heat shields that adhere to a gas tank or exhaust system, to multi-layered thermally conductive adhesives and tapes for automotive electronics and LED lighting, Boyd’s engineering team can support you with selecting the best thermal management material for your automotive application, custom design a solution optimized for your assembly and performance needs with DFM (design for manufacturing) in mind to keep production costs low.
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