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Hector Fratty
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Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.
ADB Education is Urgently Needed: Valeo’s Le Ligné
Interview, special to DVN
Christophe Le-Ligné is the CTO of Valeo’s Visibility Systems business group, and since this past July he directly lead the R&D activities of the Lighting Systems product group, replacing Laurent Evrard.
DVN : You’re working away in the lighting community, but your name might not be familiar to some of our readers. Will you tell us about yourself?
Christophe Le Ligné: I hold an engineering degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from ENSEA, that is École Nationale Supérieure de l’Électronique et de Ses Applications, or National School of Electronics and its Applications— a graduate school near Paris.
I began my career in the Automotive industry at SAGEM (Société d’Applications Générales de l’Électricité et de la Mécanique, i.e., General Electricity and Mechanics Applications Company) in 1988, where I worked on instrument clusters and navigation systems. Then I joined Japanese consumer electronics company kenwood in 1996 as an R&D manager in charge of car audio systems. In 1998 I became manager of electronics and advance engineering at Eaton Corporation, which became Delphi Mechatronics Systems in 2002. Until 2006 I was in charge of product engineering for Southern Europe. I also spent some time at Siemens VDO as a program manager on car audio and navigation systems.
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Correction: Escalade is CR Headlamp Performance Top Star
In a recent edition of DVN, I remarked that Consumer Reports considered the LED low beams on the 2014 Toyota Corolla the best they’d tested—which might have been true when that car launched, but GM’s new-for-2015 Cadillac Escalade’s full-LED headlamps
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Mini LEDs: Better Than OLEDs?
Mini LEDs has been put forth as the technology to confront OLED in display applications. Makers, notably from Taiwan, with expertise in LEDs and LCD see the opportunity and are accelerating their technology development, aiming to boost the LED industry.
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SMARTRIX and Laser Light in the new Range Rover
Following on from the premiere of the innovative SMARTRIX modules in the Jaguar E-Pace, Jaguar Land Rover is now launching the next vehicles with smart headlight technology.
Compared with the Jaguar E-Pace, the Range Rover Sport come with additional
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High-Current Power Inductors With Wide Temperature Range
TDK’s SPM-VT family of wirewound power inductors were designed specifically for the high thermal and current demands of automotive LED headlamps. Mass production starts this month.
They boast a broad operating temperature range from -55 to 155 °C, and high
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Hella to Provide e.GO Mobile
Hella have integrated a selection of diverse lighting and electronics products in the new e.GO Life, including products which support braking function and which also play their part in creating an individual look and feel for the vehicle. The car has been
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Hella’s New LED Auxiliary Lamps: Performance & Style
Hella are adding LED lamps to their established Luminator and Rallye 3003 series of auxiliary driving and spot lamps. Existing halogen lamps can also be easily converted to the new LED variants, because the lens-reflector units are modular.
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New AI-Camera Is Sharper Than Human Eyes: Bosch
Bosch say their new camera, which will appear on a vehicle this year, detects objects and their relevance better than the human eye. It’s got artificial intelligence to enhance ADAS systems and help pave the way for self-driving cars.
Not only does the camera
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Lumotive and Himax in LCoS Lidar Pact
Lumotive, the Bill Gates-funded startup developing lidar systems for autonomous vehicles, and Himax Display, a subsidiary of Himax Technologies, will collaborate on beam steering technology in lidar systems that integrates Himax’s LCoS (liquid crystal on silicon)
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