The German government has pulled together a team of expert companies to develop led adaptive headlights.
They are:
Osram – automotive lighting LEDs, control gear.
Fraunhofer IZM (Institute for Reliability and Microintegration) – interconnection and materials.
Infineon – automotive electronics and LED drivers.
Hella – optical system, headlamp structure, prototype build.
Daimler – vehicle tests…
Uwe Jessen, European sales manager at Bergquist talks to Electronics Weekly about the automotive market and the ups and downs of the LED lighting market for the materials industry. Bergquist’s thermal management materials are used in a large number of sectors (automotive, power supply, motor control, computer, etc). Does…
The South Korean chaebol LG Electronics and Osram are squaring up to each other – in suits and coutersuits – over the issue of LED headlights… At the heart of the dispute is Osram purportedly infringing LG-owned patents involving LED chips and packaging technologies, and this has dragged in BMW and…
Two years ago, LED headlamps were in demand at motor shows, but xenon high-intensity discharge (HID) lights were brighter, and 99.9% of car buyers still got good old-fashioned halogen bulbs. Now LED headlamp technology has matured and caught up, although, thanks to banking crisis, almost everyone still…
Buckingham-based Wipac has designed the LED headlamp in Bentley’s 2011 Mulsanne, writes Steve Bush. The light is not all all-LED. Instead, eight power LEDs boost main beam mode from twin bi-xenon projectors. The firm, now owned by LED lens maker Carclo, made its first vehicle light…
Oxley Developments has been selected to supply a dual-mode LED lighting system for the Foxhound British army patrol vehicle, writes Steve Bush. Foxhound is the British Army name for Ocelot, the Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV) designed and developed by Force Protection Europe. Force Protection Europe has won a…
Lumileds has introduced an LED specifically for car indicators, writes Steve Bush. Called SignalSure, the LEDs are AEC-Q101 qualified and meet Japanese and SAE/ECE requirements. “Reliability and confidence in a surface mount signalling product has been our design objective from the start,” said Paul Martin, director for automotive…
Lumileds has announced a four die LED for automotive headlights, writes our Technology Editor Steve Bush. Based on the firm’s ‘thin film flip chip’ die and dubbed Altilon, Lumileds is claiming up to 850 lm and 60 million cd/m2 at 1A. You can read a PDF on the…