Automotive actuators: small drive solution to improve our driving experience

There are many gear motors behind the electromechanical drives of cars. Let's find out more about main automotive actuators

The automotive sector usually offers numerous drive solutions aimed at improving the comfort and safety of the members of a car. Automotive actuators are maybe the least known pieces but the ones that most have influenced the emergence of new specific movements.

Automotive actuators, as tools that print a force to move a mechanical device, can exert their strength with a hydraulic, pneumatic, magnetic or electrical dimension. In small movements that do not require the displacement of heavy elements, just an electromechanical device or actuator driven by a small gear motor. Of course, gear motors are essential in many of the movements that are designed and projected for both the interior and exterior of a vehicle.

What are those little engineering movements that find in the gear motor their best ally?

Actuators in automotive for the vehicle interior

-Steering wheel

-Headrest

-Seats

Automotive actuators present in the bodywork

-Rear view mirrors

Regarding this point, CLR has been providing gear motors to the leading manufacturers of rearview mirror systems (Ficosa, Magna or GMR Automotive). In the present, the most important car brands such as Audi, Ford, Nissan, Volkswagen or General Motors count with the solution of CLR to start the movement of their folding rear view mirrors.

- Sunroofs

-Adaptative headlights

-Lid of the gasoline deposit

-Engine block

-Trunk

Find out more information of each car equipment in our blog.