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Design and Development of the Oldsmobile Alero Instrument Panel and the Use of the Gas Assist Process
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The 1999 Oldsmobile Alero incorporates an instrument panel utilizing several advanced manufacturing technologies. The instrument panel, molded from a glass-filled Styrene-Maleic Anhydride (SMA) resin, uses the gas-assist process to produce a gas channel of approximately nine feet in length (see figure 1). This process includes multiple gas injection locations, a heated manifold system with (9) sequentially gated injection locations and a delayed gas blowback technique.
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