Honda technologies join steel, aluminum
Feb 22, 2013 | 04:26 PM
| Jo Isenberg-O’Loughlin
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Honda Motor Co.,
steel aluminum,
joining technologies,
auto door panels,
weight reduction,
3-D lock seam,
Acura RLX,
Corinna Petry
CHICAGO — Honda Motor Co. Ltd. says it has developed a trio of technologies that combine steel and aluminum and is applying them to mass-produced vehicles, initially in the North American model of the Acura RLX.
The first commercial application of the technologies joins an aluminum outer-door panel—conventionally made from steel—to the steel inner-door panel, the Tokyo-based automaker said.....
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