Being a cost effective, low scrap and amenable to medium to very large production volumes, powdered metal components are widely used in highly diversified industrial segments. Although close to 70% of the applications are found in the automotive industry, there are several interesting applications in the consumer goods, farm equipments, fire arms, automation, home appliances, bicycles and medical equipments industry.
Following are some of the examples of PM applications in the automotive.
Engine |
Transmission |
- Alternator heat sink
- Cam shaft lobes
- Cam shaft retainer
- Connecting rods
- Crank shaft sprocket
- Starter motor planetary pinions
- Air pump bearing retainer
- Starter motor pole piece
- Distributor pole piece
- Fuel pump eccentric
- Gerotor type oil pumps
- Exhaust flange
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- Clutch pressure plates
- Converter clutch races
- Converter turbine hub
- Lock-up clutch collar
- Kick down lever
- Cam stator torque converter
- Sensor rings
- Tappet valve guides
- Throttle cam
- Valve lifter guides
- Water pump impeller
- Water pump flange
- Water pump pulley
- Oil pump gears
- Parking gear
- Shift fork reverse gear
- Standard transmission detent & guide
- Four wheel drive - Planetary gear carrier
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Steering |
Hardware |
- Column collar
- Column gears
- Column lock bolt
- End plate
- Rack bearing
- Tilt steering wheel ratchet lever
- Torsion bar bushing
- Locking wedge
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- Air bag hardware
- Air conditioning compressor clutch hub
- Door hinges
- Electric motor cores and armatures
- Gear - electric remote windows
- Head light activator gear
- Lock parts
- Hinge brackets - sun roof
- Pinion gears - doors & windows
- Speedometer gears
- Tachometer sensing ring
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Seats |
Suspension |
- Adjustment racks
- Adjustment levels
- Adjustment worm gears
- Recliner parts
- Seat belt locks
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- Ball joint bearings
- Clips
- McPherson strut rod guides
- Shock absorber pistons, valves, cylinder ends and rod guides
- Torsion bar bushings
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Brakes |
- ABS sensor rings
- Adjuster nuts
- Adjustors
- Brake lock - master cylinder
- Pistons
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Sprockets Gears & Pulleys |
- Oil Pump Gear
- Window Regulating pinion
- Sunroof actuater gear
- Timing Belt Pulleys/Sprockets
- Water Pump Pulleys
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Some of The Typical non-Automotive Powdered Metal Applications |
- Helical gears on lawn movers
- Holding brackets and spacers in the industrial automation
- Oil less bearings in the consumer durables
- Planetary gears and flanges in the washing machines
- Spur gears and sprockets in the automatic door systems
- Components of water sprinkler systems
- Components of auto ignition gas stove switches
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While the above list is only a fraction of thousands of applications, we at Falcon are constantly striving to identify new applications and are willing to work with product designers.
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