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Flex and Aito, a leading haptic interface technology, have partnered to enhance the automotive user experience by embedding touch sensors with button-like tactile feedback into automotive applications such as overhead consoles, steering wheel controls and other vehicle interior applications.
Aito’s proprietary piezo-based technology provides haptic feedback to a user’s fingertip, making smooth surfaces feel as if they were embedded with physical buttons, knobs, shapes, edges or textures. By eliminating the need for physical buttons, this technology provides unparalleled design freedom, enabling tactile controls to be seamlessly integrated with high quality materials such as wood, leather or metal. Additionally, the technology significantly reduces weight and space requirements in automotive cabin design, reducing the required thickness of the sensor rack to under 0.4 millimeters.
“We are looking forward to integrating Aito’s breakthrough technology into our next-generation automotive interior offerings,” said Chris Obey, president of automotive at Flex. “Our expertise in advanced technologies across multiple industries allows us to apply the latest innovations to automotive electronics, and now Aito’s technology will allow us to offer our customers the most innovative and intuitive user interfaces as well – enabling the ‘cockpit of the future’ for smart, connected cars, with more intuitive and versatile controls that merge into the surface material itself.”
Aito’s proprietary piezo-based technology provides haptic feedback to a user’s fingertip, making smooth surfaces feel as if they were embedded with physical buttons, knobs, shapes, edges or textures. By eliminating the need for physical buttons, this technology provides unparalleled design freedom, enabling tactile controls to be seamlessly integrated with high quality materials such as wood, leather or metal. Additionally, the technology significantly reduces weight and space requirements in automotive cabin design, reducing the required thickness of the sensor rack to under 0.4 millimeters.
“We are looking forward to integrating Aito’s breakthrough technology into our next-generation automotive interior offerings,” said Chris Obey, president of automotive at Flex. “Our expertise in advanced technologies across multiple industries allows us to apply the latest innovations to automotive electronics, and now Aito’s technology will allow us to offer our customers the most innovative and intuitive user interfaces as well – enabling the ‘cockpit of the future’ for smart, connected cars, with more intuitive and versatile controls that merge into the surface material itself.”