For Immediate Release

Mississauga ON Canada, 11 March 2008

At the 2008 SAE World Congress, held in Detroit, Michigan, USA in April 2008, Microsys will present an important technical paper. The paper was co-authored with Takata USA, and is entitled: Alternative Airbag Evaluation Methodology through Cold Gas Inflation System.

The paper will be presented at the Safety/Testing Session: Occupant Protection - Safety Test Methodology (Part 1 of 2) B37, on Monday April 14, at 11:30a.m. in room O3-45 of Cobo Hall.

The paper resulted from an in-depth technical evaluation of the new Microsys Cold Gas System that was performed by Takata USA with the assistance of the Microsys engineering staff.

The paper authors are:

From Takata USA: Paul M. Slaats , Andrew J. Pitonyak, Paul Wipasuramonton, Tiara Hunter, Mike Rains.

From Microsys Technologies Inc.: Daniel Wang, Colin Williams, Corey Miller

Paper number: 2008-01-0352

For more information see the SAE web site session matrix.