Focus Shift: Paris to Tokyo
The DVN Paris workshop is now behind us. We achieved more than our target, with 350 attendees; 22 exhibitors; 10 lectures from car makers plus so many more from speakers…
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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.
Great Expo at Paris DVN Workshop
There were 22 expo booths at the DVN Workshop held shortly ago, where visitors could learn about the latest innovations in technology: technique, and function. Here’s a look at the highlights of each booth: A2MAC1 A2MAC1’s Advanced Exterior Lighting is an all-in-one solution that unlocks the secrets of all headlighting systems on the market. After…
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New Ford Patent: Reactive Self-Dimming Lights
Ford have been granted a U.S. patent for a system to keep track of ambient light and automatically adjust the output of vehicle lamps to dynamically appropriate levels. It’s patent № 11565624B2, and in the abstract, Ford say it’s a method of determining ambient light intensity around a vehicle, determining the luminance of an exterior…
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Osram Sylvania to Expand US Operations
Osram Sylvania, the only major company making light bulbs in the United States for cars, have announced a major new investment in their plant at Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Sylvania have been manufacturing at Hillsboro for over seven decades, and now are putting several million dollars into the plant to expand operations. CEO Mark Savoy says…
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Toyoda Gosei’s LED Driver Alert Light System
Toyoda Gosei have developed a system which adds a driver-alert function to decorative lighting. This system is used on the new Toyota Prius. The system visually alerts drivers using strong light at times such as when they remain stopped at an intersection without noticing that the vehicle in front of them has moved forward, or…
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Hella Did Well in FY22; Fortunes Look Bright for FY23
Forvia Hella announced their preliminary results for the short fiscal year 2022 (1 June to 31 December 2022) and the outlook for the fiscal year 2023. They generated sales of €4.4bn in FY22, with an adjusted EBIT margin of 5 per cent (compared to 4.4 per cent in the previous FY). CEO Michel Favre says,…
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DVN Interview: DesignLED
Extract of interview led by Philippe Aumont, DVN Interior director
Coming from an academic and OLED optics background, Dr. James Gourlay had an idea 20 years ago: is it possible to reach and beat the homogeneity and illumination performance of OLEDs, using low-cost commodity inorganic LEDs? That’s the journey DesignLED have been on since then. The technology itself is simply brilliant: a super-slim flexible light guiding…
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BMW and Valeo: L4 Full Auto-Park
BMW Group and Valeo, having already announced their collaboration on ADAS controllers; sensors, and software for parking and manœuvring of the automaker’s ‘Neue Klasse’ platform, the two companies now announce cooperative development of L4 fully automated parking technologies. In January, both companies signed a strategic cooperation agreement for joint development of a range of high-end…
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Commercial Laser Sales Boost Lumentum
California-based Lumentum have posted quarterly revenues of USD $506m, partly on account of a sharp increase in sales of fibre and ultrafast lasers for industrial applications. Lumentum’s business is primarily focused on optical- communication and 3D sensing applications, but their commercial laser division’s revenues were up 16 per cent year-on-year to $57m, a long-term high.…
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Ford Competitors Have Engineering Efficiency Edge: Farley
Ford CEO Jim Farley recently said on a radio talk show, “It takes [Ford] 25 per cent more engineers to do the same work statements as our competitors (…) I can’t afford to be 25 per cent less efficient”. Farley said last week that avoidable expenses and supply-chain issues cost Ford a combined total of…
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