Composition and Functions of Automobile Dashboards

With the increasing popularity of automobiles, people's attention and requirements for automobiles are also increasing. In addition to car performance, the interior of the car and the overall design of the car have become new areas of concern. The instrument panel is an important component of the interior in the car, and it is also the vehicle for the realization of various information display and control functions of the automobile. It plays an important role.

The instrument panel housing is generally made of plastic and equipped with driving odometers, speedometers, engine tachometers, fuel gauges, warning lights and other light signal indications. At the same time, it will also be equipped with defrost blowing system, air conditioning control system, audio and video entertainment systems, airbags, glove boxes and other components.

What are some of the classification of the dashboard? According to different classification criteria, dashboards have different categories. General dashboard classification criteria include safety, comfort, and driving directions. According to the safety points, the dashboard can be divided into the airbag-free instrument panel and the airbag instrument panel. In recent years, seamless airbag dashboards that can both ensure safety without affecting the appearance have gradually become the design trends of various models.

According to the points of comfort can be divided into hard plastic dashboard, plastic dashboard and semi-rigid foam soft instrument panel. The low-end and middle-grade vehicles have many simple processes and low-cost hard plastic dashboards. The plastic panel is absorbed and bonded outside the injection or compression frame or composite skin at the time of injection to make it look leathery. In the high-end cars, semi-rigid foam soft dashboards are increasingly being used, especially semi-rigid foam soft dashboards with slush plastic skins. The instrument panel can be divided into steering wheel left instrument panel and right instrument panel according to driving direction dashboard.