Design and Development of the Oldsmobile Alero Instrument Panel and the Use of the Gas Assist Process
980439
02/23/1998
- Event
- Content
- 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.
- Pages
- 5
- Citation
- McCollum, T., Schomer, R., Oster, K., and Nitsch, A., "Design and Development of the Oldsmobile Alero Instrument Panel and the Use of the Gas Assist Process," SAE Technical Paper 980439, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/980439.