AUTOMOTIVE MECHATRONIC

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Across
  1. 2. Rotation around a vertical axis that passes through the car’s center of gravity.
  2. 5. The horizontal surface of typically the back of the vehicle or the trunk lid.
  3. 8. A crease in the sheet metal body that is styling feature for sports or high performance vehicles.
  4. 10. Radial describes forces or directions that move out from a common center.
  5. 12. The metal portion on the body of the vehicle between the doorsills and the passenger compartment.
  6. 16. A machining process that removes materials from specific areas on a part using rotary cutters and a wide range of machine tools.
  7. 18. The wheelbase of a vehicle is the distance between the center of the front and the rear wheels.
  8. 20. Grinding is a method to shape materials that are too hard or misshapen to process with conventional tools.
  9. 22. Turning is when a material is held between two plates and then the cutting tool is rotated to form the desired shape.
  10. 23. An accepted condition or measurement which is accepted as an approximation rather than a measured exact value, a ‘nominal’ value
  11. 24. A lathe is a piece of manufacturing machinery that machines round stock, a lathe is computer controlled and this process is also known as turning.
  12. 25. A machining process that creates threads inside a hole in metal, plastic or wood to all a screw to be twisted in.
  13. 28. A customer is a person or a company that purchases a product or service
  14. 31. The combination of mechanical, computing and electronics when designing and developing a new vehicle.
  15. 32. Vent located on the side of the vehicle near the fender that is sometime used for hot air outlet by primarily is decorative in today’s designs
Down
  1. 1. A reaction or recoil between parts that do not fit together properly, slop in mechanical system usually in gear that results in parts not fitting together as they should.
  2. 3. Line from the hood that runs below the bottom edge of the windows and ends at the trunk.
  3. 4. Preloading is when a portion of the load a part is designed to bear is applied and then the part is tightened or adjusted so that it is prepared to bear the full load it was designed for.
  4. 6. Greenhouse refers to the top portion of the cabin of the body of the automobile that is primarily glass/windows.
  5. 7. The structural roof beam located above the windshield or a section of exhaust piping that is attached to the cylinder heads.
  6. 9. The numerical value that shows the largest difference in the range of values within a group.
  7. 11. The term for the base of the windshield on a vehicle
  8. 13. A method used to control inventory in automotive manufacturing factories that was developed by the Japanese and provides just in time inventory control.
  9. 14. A machining milling process for cutting gear teeth, cutting splines, cutting sprockets.
  10. 15. Tooling is custom designed implements that perform a specific job during the assembly process.
  11. 17. The process where a drawing is marked up with changes that must be made to a design, the process is called ‘redlining’ as typically a red colored pen is used so that all the changes can be easily seen.
  12. 19. A machining process that uses a rotating head in a variety of shapes and sizes to cut a hole in a part
  13. 21. The ability of a material to resist decay, wear and tear during it’s useful life.
  14. 26. Forces or direction that is applied along the axis. If you picture a wheel on a car, axial would be the direction the axle is running, though the center of the wheel.
  15. 27. A machining process that puts holes in a part using a die and punch tooling.
  16. 29. Machining is the general term for a process of shaping, cutting or changing the physical properties of a material.
  17. 30. Outer portions of a vehicle (excluding the chassis) including, fiberglass, metal, etc. that form the outer shell of the vehicle.