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Designing Seismic-Resilient OCXO Packaging for Enhanced Vehicle-Mounted Synchronization Performance

2026-06-11


Vehicle-mounted automatic driving domain controllers and automotive-grade 5G communication gateways require continuous high-precision timing synchronization signals. Nevertheless, road bumping, engine vibration and instantaneous impact from speed bumps during driving transmit persistent disturbance to on-board OCXO devices. Conventionally rigid soldered constant-temperature cavities suffer tiny deformation, leading to shifted vibration posture of internal resonant wafers, random jitter of output frequency and degraded phase noise of synchronized timing signals. In addition, sharp temperature alternation day and night across four seasons inside vehicles further narrows stable operating range of OCXO under dual environmental disturbance.

Optimized OCXO for vehicle conditions adopts double-layer elastic buffer packaging structure. The external side of constant-temperature metal cavity is wrapped with high-damping silicone filling layer, and four corners of the cavity are fixed on PCB pads via miniature elastic buckles instead of full rigid soldering. After vibration and shock transmit to PCB boards, elastic buckles and damping layers absorb vibration energy step by step, blocking external deformation conduction to internal constant-temperature cavities and preventing frequency jitter induced by posture offset of resonant wafers. Multi-layer composite thermal insulation films are attached to packaging shells to weaken disturbance of rapid temperature alternation inside and outside carriages to internal temperature control loops, narrowing fluctuation range of heating power of temperature control circuits.

The optimized devices pass full IEC vehicle vibration and shock reliability tests, with frequency jitter effectively suppressed under continuous bumpy driving conditions. They can be directly SMD mounted on vehicles without extra external shock absorption brackets. This packaging optimization scheme expands application scope of constant-temperature crystals in vehicle high-precision timing systems merely through external mechanical structure iteration without modifying internal temperature control circuit architecture, satisfying mass vehicle installation demands of automotive-grade synchronization scenarios such as automatic driving positioning timing and IoV edge gateways.