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TRW have announced the opening of a new test track in Heihe in the northern region of China. TRW have made a significant investment in the facility since setup began in 2006.
WABCO, a global technology leader and tier-one supplier to the commercial vehicle industry, today announced ESCsmart, the global commercial vehicle industry’s first technology
In order to assess the Socioeconomic impact of Xenon Headlamps a cost benefit analysis has been conducted by Prof Braun of University of Cologne. The institute for Transport Economics
Grote Industries introduce LightForm, a thin, flexible sheet of LED light that requires so little energy that it can be fully illuminated by a small handheld battery pack.
Bankrupt automotive supplier Plastal have sold their subsidiary Thermoset plastics processor Menzolit Compounds International located in Heidelberg (Germany) to equity investment
AL-Automotive Lighting honor their suppliers once a year for outstanding service with the “Supplier Award.” This award is given in the categories Quality, Innovation, Logistic Services,
Mercedes‘ new E-Class is the first car in which the headlamps continuously adjust to the prevailing traffic situation. The system, jointly developed by Daimler and Hella engineers, gives the driver
A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers has developed software to enable engineers to design new 3-D products by simply sketching their ideas on a tablet computer.
Virtual reality (VR) gives product developers the benefits of seeing real components without the cost of building prototypes. The systems that let developers explore designs in 3-D
With a PhD in Physics, Ral Schäfer joined Philips in 1977 in the Lighting Research Group. He held different positions in research, development and marketing.He is working for Philips Automotive Lighting since 1988. In this period he was involved among others with the development and market introduction of Xenon systems from the early 90’s in the roles of Development and Product Marketing Manager. Since 2005 he is responsible for the headlighting bulb business of Philips Automotive Lighting as Vice President & General Manager.
DVN: Xenon is still a growing technology. Some experts consider there is still room for progress on performances. What is your opinion?
Ralf Schäffer: We definitely see options to improve Xenon Lighting. In my view we have not yet reached the limits of light technical performance of the light source. Parameters as efficiency – related to lower energy consumption -, light colour for sharper visual impression and luminance pattern can still be enhanced.
Target is to reach more safe and comfortable light on the road for the enduser.
Other elements for performance improvement are related to system aspects.
Is the current architecture of Xenon systems really future proof or can we get additional, not yet exploited benefits out of features like automatic high beam control etc.? From the bulb side we are studying options to support such functionality.
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