Video: NSK Newly Developed Load Detection Device

NSK Ltd. (NSK; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President and CEO: Toshihiro Uchiyama) has developed the world's first hydraulic load detection device. The device can prevent overloading in vans, light trucks, and other vehicles. NSK first showed the device at Automotive Engineering Expo 2017. Check the video below for a closer look.

The video covers the features of the load detection device. We built a full demo car to demonstrate its potential to prevent overloading, and even improve driving safety and fuel economy.

Development Background

Vehicle overloading is a long-standing problem in many countries. Overloaded commercial vehicles, including light trucks and vans, are a costly social issue that is gaining attention. An overloaded vehicle has a longer braking distance, and is more difficult to steer. Overloading is a major contributor to serious accidents and road infrastructure damage (undulations, cracking, sinking), causing significant deterioration of road safety and comfort.

Governments are currently moving to strengthen regulations to prevent overloading. German highways, for example, have load sensors in the road at over 700 inspection sites. Drivers not only lose their license for violating load limits more than 3 times in a year, punitive measures make it harder to work as a professional driver after regaining their license. In Japan, highway toll booths have been installing electric scales, and large truck manufacturers are introducing on-board automatic load measurement systems. In light of the increasing need for overloading prevention in both developed and developing countries, NSK took up the challenge to create a compact on-board load detection device.

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