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Moveable door glazing presents a particular challenge for wind noise in vehicles, especially Electric Vehicles. Ensuring an acceptable cabin acoustic environment, crucial for passenger comfort and voice recognition functionality, necessitates lamination with acoustic layers. However, this typically results in a compromise to stiffness in traditional symmetrical laminate designs. Lamination with Saflex™ Evoca Rigid Acoustic PVB provides supplemental stiffness and enhances the Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) performance. Additionally, incorporating Corning’s asymmetric glazing design using ultrathin Gorilla Glass as the inner ply, successfully addresses this challenge by providing around 55% more stiffness without adding weight.
“Fundamentally, moveable door glazing applications present a significant design challenge between acoustics, stiffness and weight. The PVB interlayer plays an increasingly important role in improving this type of trade-off and offering significantly more design flexibility to both the OEM and glass suppliers. With our advancements in acoustics and other areas, Eastman is excited to work with glass innovation leaders like Corning to enable the next generation of electric vehicles and of glazing design” said Dan Hodder, Segment Manager for Automotive Acoustic, Solar, and Color Interlayers at Eastman.
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CES 2024 – Jan 9-12
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