Kyocera Corporation has developed a multilayer ceramic substrate for use in an electronic control unit (ECU) on the advanced automatic transmission produced by Aisin AW Co. Ltd.
The Aisin AW transmission is a high torque capacity FWD (front wheel drive) 6-speed with the ECU mounted directly onto the transmission. Mounting the ECU directly to the transmission requires harsh environmental durability due to high temperature and high vibration exposure, where high reliability and a small size module substrate are essential.
Kyocera developed the multilayer ceramic substrate for this application based on material technologies and process technologies for size reduction, high density and high precision substrates. Direct mounting of ECU on transmissions and engines are increasing in popularity and growing rapidly for these types of applications, according to Kyocera.
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