Asai Technology
Since the dawn of Asai Construction, the Asai family of companies has always been on the cutting edge of technology. Asai Motors is no exception, priding itself in its dedication to the latest automotive technological advances. Whether it be through the introduction of new models or a refresh of the current line up, rest assured with the knowledge that you'll always be driving the latest in automotive engineering.
NanomaterialsMaterials have come a long way since the days of heavy steel and ugly plastics, so should the materials in your car. Asai Motors has teamed up with
YellowApple Inc. to provide some of the strongest materials for use in every Asai car. The purposes can be structural to cosmetic, but in all cases enhance the safety and efficiency of our vehicles.
GrapheneTen times stronger, six times lighter, two times harder and more thirteen times more rigid than steel of comparable thickness, graphene has a plethora of uses in the human world. From basic household electronics to massive construction projects, graphene's durability and decreasing production costs are turning it into a material of the future. The automotive industry is no exception.
Asai Motors uses graphene for structural components where its strength can be used to replace heavy steel parts, just as in joints, bolts, and critical load-bearing chassis areas. Its light weight provides huge vehicle mass savings, improving performance, fuel economy and driving range. Graphene reduces vehicle weight by as much as 15% and can generate an electrical charge with air friction, harnessed to power batteries.
Graphene plays a critical role in the Asai Corrugated Material Safety Structure (CMSS), which inflates on impact to transform areas of the car's structure into a safety bubble, absorbing energy. Feel safe in knowing the cage around you is rigid and won't crush in during a roll-over. Enjoy the comfort of an automobile with fewer squeaks, rattles, and an immunity to rust.
Self-healing polymersYou're always protecting your investments, whether it be home, life, or financial. A car is just that – an important investment in your life. Accidents, rust, and general wear and tear threaten this investment, so why not have a car that can truly tough it out?
Asai self-healing polymers are forms of plastic infused with a liquid plastic in tiny veins. When ruptured, these tiny veins release their liquid polymer, reforming and closing the gaps formed. What does this mean for you? Paint that heals is scratches after a single polish, body panels that are not only lightweight, but reform their shape and smooth over their gauges in a matter of days, and of course no rust. Your car will always look fresh and new – as if just driven off the dealer's lot.
A closeup of the microscopic veins in self-healing polymers and coatings.
Electronics, Safety, and AIConsumer electronics are always changing and the technologies are being updated at an accelerating rate. Estimates say computers and phones become out of date every 6 to 8 months on average. You change computer every few years, and you probably switch cell phones more often. So what does that say about your car? Every respectable modern automobile of the past 20 to 30 years has an onboard computer. Do you really want an out of date car?
All Asai vehicles are engineered to use the latest applicable and suitable computer hardware and software. During regular servicing, any software updates will be installed, ensuring your vehicle is as up to date as can be. Enjoy efficient and perfect tuning, exact and up-to-date navigation, and the best possible in-car entertainment.
These updates have a safety aspect as well. Each Asai vehicle is equipped with front-facing sensors and short-range sonar to detect other vehicle, objects, and people. The most obvious use is the active cruise control system, but the Asai Reactive Emergency Braking system uses this sonar to actively emergency stop the vehicle and prevent collisions. With frequent software updates, you can be certain your vehicle will have the safest systems around.
Asai is always working for you and always concerned for your safety. Each vehicle conforms to the rigorous Miramont Vehicle Safety Assessment Standard (VSAS) and our models regularly receive 5-star VSAS crash test ratings. All vehicles are equipped with features required of cars in Miramont, such as Emergency SOS panic buttons with satellite tracking, first aid kits, space-saving spare tires, and immobilizers with alarm systems. But it doesn't end there. Every Asai vehicle comes with standard ABS, traction control, and stability control. The computer's intelligent AI use sonar signals to calculate the distance between your car and the vehicle ahead of it, making necessary adjustments to cruise control and seatbelt tensioning. The Asai Reactive Emergency Braking System (AREBS) and Blind Spot Avoidance System (BSAS) are two active safety systems of the AI that complement each vehicle's rigid graphene-reinforced frames and extensive SRS airbag systems.
Asai Reactive Emergency Braking SystemMitigating the force of impact is good, but preventing the crash is always better. Pedestrian deaths account for 10% to 15% of all car accident fatalities. Asai's goal is to ensure no pedestrian is killed or seriously harmed by any of our products. At speeds of over 25km/h, the Asai Reactive Emergency Braking System (AREBS) switches on, keeping pedestrians and other drivers safe.
Sonar and camera ranges for the AREBS. Asai aims to keep cars and pedestrians intact with onboard computers that have authority to apply full braking power. AREBS uses a forward-looking camera and a radar sensor with a wider field of view than that used by previous systems. This lets the computer spot pedestrians moving from the side of the road into the car's path and vehicles slowing down or stopping suddenly ahead.
If a collision is likely, the system will audibly warn the driver and flash a bright red dot on the wind screen. If the driver does not act, the car stops by itself. This system is also used to adjust vehicle speed on cars equipped with active cruise control systems.
AREBS pedestrian identification using sonar and imaging. However, collisions are sometimes inevitable. If the vehicle's speed is simply too high to stop, road conditions are exceedingly poor, or if the vehicle is travelling too close behind the one in front of it as per the driver's habits, the system can deploy the Skidding AirBag.
The Skidding AirBag recognizes that the limit to a car's ability to brake in an emergency is the available friction of the scant few square inches of tire contact patch at each corner of the car. What if more area could be available to slow the car in case of an emergency?
That's the thinking behind the Skidding AirBag. If the car's on-board computer concludes a collision is imminent, it will fire an airbag located under the front axle that will press a high-friction surface against the ground. This anchor will slow the car at a rate of more than 20 meters per second, the equivalent of more than 2 Gs of stopping force. Modern cars brake with a maximum of roughly 1 G of deceleration.
At a time when there is concern that a move to smaller cars will come at a price in safety, Asai estimates that this ability to scrub off speed before impact provides the same benefit as adding seven inches of length to the crush space at the front of the car.
An additional benefit is that the airbag lifts the front of the car by nearly three inches, offsetting the nose dive that occurs during emergency braking. This keeps the car's impact-absorbing crush zones in alignment with those on the other vehicle.
Skidding airbag demonstration. Asai Corrective Steering SystemAsai Motors vehicles can also steer for the driver. When the active cruise control system is switched on, Asai Corrective Steering System engages to help prevent the car from drifting out of its lane.
The system watches the road ahead with a camera, and if it sees that the car is headed out of its lane--and the turn signal isn't indicating that this is intentional--it gently steers the car back into its lane.
The intention here is not to drive for the driver, but to reduce the need for constant corrective steering input that can fatigue the driver. Left entirely to its own devices, which is not the designers' intent, Asai Corrective Steering System will eventually pinball from one side of the lane to another until the needed corrective input exceeds the system's capability and it drifts across the lane divider. At this point, a chime and red light alert the driver to what is happening, actively ensuring the driver has not fallen asleep at the wheel.
Lane monitoring demonstration. Inflating SeatbeltsInflation is also on the minds of Asai engineers, who have developed a seatbelt that releases a mini airbag during a crash. In case of a crash, these belts expand in just 40 milliseconds. Since they're much smaller, in terms of volume, than a regular airbag and use just a small canister for gas--similar to a CO2 cartridge--the belts don't get hot like airbags do. The swelling seat belt will help keep smaller occupants in position for maximum protection during a crash, and they also spread the crash forces over five times as much body area compared to the narrow strip of a conventional belt.
Asai Corrugated Material Safety StructureAnother part of the car that Asai engineers have managed to make inflatable are the steel side-impact protection bars in the doors and roof/roll-cage structures of our cars, adding additional crush-impact space between the occupants and the outside world. To do this, they have come up with an inflatable graphene structure that mounts inside or replaces parts of the vehicle structure with one that it is made of corrugated gaphene. On impact, a high-pressure inflator pops the beam out to its full size.
With these structural components, thin doors can provide the crush space of thick ones. The inflatable beams are also lighter than conventional solid components and just as strong. Smart software precisely detects imminent side impacts without any chance of false alarms and so owners never need to fear disfiguring the sheetmetal.
The safety each Mirmonter has come to know at home is now available to you, exclusively through Asai Motors.
Green TechnologyInnovation and environmental consciousness often go hand-in-hand, and Asai Motors is always thinking of the human impact on the environment. Asai is always concerned with the human condition, and our commitment to advances in green technology is our way of making the world just a little healthier for everyone.
Traditionally, fossil-fuel powered vehicles maintained a heavy generator or alternator to recharge the vehicle's battery. Well not anymore at Asai. Using regenerative braking on all models, Asai's patented Wind-Cell technology, and harnessing the electrical charge of graphene, we've done away with these out-dated components. By saving weight and reducing the strain on each car's engine, performance, handling, and fuel-efficiency are all increased. We've also changed the fuel injection formula entirely. Instead of injecting the fuel into the air mixture before entering each cylinder, fuel is injected directly into the chamber. With the natural turbulence of the air and fewer wasted droplets, more engines produce a more efficient burn. Coupled with active cylinder de-activation in cruising and deceleration driving, Asai vehicles drink little and give a lot.
What does this twist on traditional technology mean for you? Huge savings and fewer fill-ups. How many other companies have 650 horsepower V12 engines with over 20mpg on a combined cycle? None.
How does it work? Simple: originally developed for electric and hybrid vehicles, regenerative braking recharges a car's batteries with the otherwise wasted kinetic energy from everyday braking scenarios. Each time you tap on the brake or come to a stop, the energy in harnessed and sent to the battery. This also has an added secondary benefit. Ever have a battery run flat in the winter or because you left the lights on? With a little forward momentum and a sudden push of the brake, the surge in electricity can jump-start the engine. No jumper cables required.
The graphene nanomaterials used in vehicle construction generate an electrical charge as the vehicle moves due to air friction. Large parts of the car body, such as the roof, bonnet, and trunk lid, are made of graphene. The electrical charge is channelled to the battery, recharging it as the vehicle moves forward. For electric and hydrogen cars, this means up to 130km of extra driving range.
How graphene body panels can aid hydrogen/electric vehicle range. And what is this Wind-Cell technology? The physics are simple. As a vehicle travels forward, air moves over, under, and around the vehicle. Mounted underneath each car, air is channelled to two small electric generating fans, like tiny windmills. These spin furiously as the vehicle drives forward and forces air down the conduits, taking full advantage of the venturi effect and generating electricity to charge car batteries.
No alternator is needed on fossil-fuel cars and our electric and hydrogen vehicles can take advantage of an extended driving range. Now that's smart.
Each gas and diesel powered car is equipped with a strong charcoal-based air filter and catalytic converter. Airflow is maintained and no performance is lost in the pursuit of fewer emissions. Emissions and unburnt fuel are effectively absorbed by the charcoal at a rate that makes hybrids seem polluting. Air from the tailpipe is often purer and fresher than the air going into the car – how's that for clean?
Alternative Fuel OptionsBiofuelsMany markets have the option biofuel mixes. All gasoline powered engines are have been tested to run on up to E100 ethanol and all diesels up B100 bio-diesel. Gasoline engines have also been verified to run on hydrogen slush mixtures.
HydrogenFew car companies offer pure hydrogen variants of their models. Asai is an exception, offering this as an alternative fuel. Available in markets where hydrogen refuelling stations exist, the technology uses the osmosis method of electricity generation to power batteries and motors.
Electric CarsAsai electric cars have strong batteries to power motors. Each electrical car comes with an in-home car charging station and emergency 100-240v plug. An 85% charge can be achieved in 45 minutes with full-charges taking 3 hours. Home power/electric capacity must be tested before station installation.