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Creating components that underpin collision safety performance through advanced press technologies

Vehicles can be impacted from a variety of directions. To protect occupants from any angle of impact, car body frame parts must have the ability to absorb the shock of collisions and prevent cabin deformation. To achieve this, frames are designed with both rigid and soft areas to ensure they crumple in ways that minimize the danger from impacts. Additionally, electric vehicles need structures that prevent the battery from being impacted or deformed. To create such structures, each component of a car body frame varies in thickness, strength, and size and also needs to have complex shapes. Unipres has established a system for conducting in-house structural analysis of car frames, allowing it to propose optimal car body structures that balance crash safety performance and weight reductions right from the development stage. In the mass production stage, Unipres utilizes the press technologies it has cultivated to differentiate its approach to each component, producing components that meet the requirements for both strength and complexity of shape.