Press Release
First Passive Safety & Sensorics Technical Summit
showcasing solutions to further enhance road safety
 The networking of passive safety with driving dynamics and surrounding sensors allows
the driving experience becoming safer and more reliable and showcases how the
additional information can help to target passengers and vulnerable road users
 Business Unit has reached production milestone of one hundred million speed sensors
and airbag control units in China
Changchun, China, October 14, 2015. For the past 20 years, Continental, the international
automotive supplier, continually dedicates on providing advanced passive safety & sensorics
technologies and solutions for the Chinese market. The Passive Safety & Sensorics Business Unit
(PSS), one of four business units within the Chassis & Safety division of Continental, offers
integrated solutions by combining passive safety and sensor know-how in order to provide systems
for more driving safety.
Today PSS China hosted the first Technical Summit in Changchun which focuses on the
networking competence of passive safety and of sensorics to integrated safety systems, such as
the Safety Domain Control Unit (SDCU) and other high-end technologies like the Vehicle-to-X
communication (V2X). The networking of passive safety with driving dynamics and surrounding
sensors allows the driving experience becoming safer and more reliable. At the Technical Summit,
PSS showcases advanced safety systems to target passengers and vulnerable road users like
pedestrians and cyclists.
China’s automotive market developed rapidly in the last two decades, and Continental is proud of
being part of witness and contribution of it. PSS entered the Chinese market with its product
portfolio very early, and therefore growing up with the Chinese automotive industry and keeping its
progress since 20 years already. By October of 2015, due to the early localization, the business
unit has reached production milestone of one hundred million speed sensors and airbag control
units.
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Geri Fu, +86 21 6080 3000-3057
-2“China is one of the fastest growing automotive markets in the world with increasing demands for
driving safety. Driven by our ‘in the market, for the market’ strategy, we encourage local innovation
and will provide more advanced, efficient and reliable integrated safety solutions that enhance
China road safety in order to meet the dynamic requirements of OEMs and end-users,” said Dr.
Bernhard Klumpp, Executive Vice President of the Business Unit Passive Safety & Sensorics and
Member of the Management Board of Continental Division Chassis & Safety.
With its global-wide experts network, specialized technical support and continuous innovations,
PSS concentrates on the Chinese market to offer customized products and solutions such as
scalable airbag control unit, sensors for pedestrian protection, and intelligent battery sensor for
start-stop system which is becoming a mainstream feature in the market.
Jiang Shaohui, Head of Business Unit Passive Safety & Sensorics China, said: “In order to satisfy
market’s demands for cost-effectiveness, safety and fuel economy, Continental has been putting a
lot of efforts on building integrated safety systems as well as modular platform products. The
flexibility of these technologies allows us to well serve the dynamic Chinese market. Our
successful market experience of the last 20 years and well-rounded localized product chains make
Continental qualified to meet different requirements from Chinese customers. And now, we are
ready to continue our success and better serve the China market in terms of both technologies and
productions.”
The business unit offers a strong combination of diverse products to fit three process stages of
“SensePlanAct”, covering from the safe mobility to intelligent driving functions for future. The terms
Sense, Plan, Act define the fields in which Chassis & Safety products significantly determine
driving as such.
Your contact:
Geri Fu, +86 21 6080 3000-3057
-3The icon "eye" stands for products that are responsible for the perception of the vehicle state and
its environment, such as the Intelligent Battery Sensor (IBS) which is used primarily for the
widespread start-stop function and continuously analyzes the status of the battery. The "brain" is a
symbol used for the derivation of possibilities for action and necessary decisions (Plan), as they
are made by various electronic control units like V2X for cooperative and interoperable real-time
ad-hoc communication hosting safety, efficiency and comfort functions or the SDCU, the
integration platform for complex active and passive safety features. The SDCU represents the topof-the-line control unit of SPEED (Safety Platform for Efficient and Economical Design), a modular
safety platform that allows an economical and efficient safety control unit development. It can be
adjusted easily to the various vehicles classes and sizes and customer requirements. "Foot and
Pedal" are depicted as the final icon representative of all those innovations that lead to an action to
be performed (Act), which is a direct intervention in the control of the vehicle. An example is the
Accelerator Force Feedback Pedal (AFFP) that communicates with the driver via haptic feedback
to warn, inform or guide.
Continental develops intelligent technologies for transporting people and their goods. As a reliable partner,
the international automotive supplier, tire manufacturer, and industrial partner provides sustainable, safe,
comfortable, individual, and affordable solutions. In 2014, the corporation generated preliminary sales of
approximately €34.5 billion with its five divisions, Chassis & Safety, Interior, Powertrain, Tires, and
ContiTech. Continental currently employs approximately 205,000 people in 53 countries.
Continental commenced its business in China in 1994 and has built successful partnership with all major
customers in China. So far, Continental has expanded its presence in 25 production locations and 15 R&D
centers, representing a workforce of over 23,000 in the country. Continental offers market specific solutions
to the Chinese market with all of the corporation's five divisions.
Media Contact:
Geri Fu
Senior Communications Specialist
Continental Automotive Holding Co., Ltd
538 Dalian Road, 200082
Shanghai, P. R. China
Phone: +86 21 6080 3000-3057
Fax: +86 21 6080 3268
E-mail: mengxing.fu@continental-corporation.com
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Your contact:
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Tina Chen
Head of Communications China
Continental Automotive Holding Co., Ltd
538 Dalian Road, 200082
Shanghai, P. R. China
Phone: +86 21 6080 3000-4551
Fax: +86 21 6080 3268
E-mail: tina.chen@continental-corporation.com