LCD Has a Great Future: Hella
I visited Hella last month to better know their LCD technology and the progress being made these last years. This visit also helped me to enrich the study DVN launched…
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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.
VoLiFa Digital LCD Headlamp Project: Status and Outlook
In the last four years, matrix-based adaptive driving beam systems without mechanical actuators have been developed. The light distribution is divided into a row of beam elements each lit by its own LED. A matrix of these high-luminance LEDs allows rapid switching of each beam element, thus dynamically shaping the composite beam. This technology is increasingly used on premium cars (and also on some more popularly priced models).
To increase the resolution of ADB, four technologies are developing and will be in production cars in the next 3-5 years:
DMD
| The DMD system uses DLP (digital light processing), a micro-mirror array with two switching states. One state reflects the light to an absorber so it doesn’t exit the lamp; the other state will send light to the street. A high-luminance LED is projected onto the DLP, which is in the focal plane of the optical system. Thus, all the micro-mirrors in the on-state are imaged onto the street. The light has to be focused on a DLP size of 1-2 cm, but allows megapixel-level resolution. |
µMatrix
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The micro-matrix solution consists of one LED chip divided into 1,024 separate switchable pixels. The field plane here consists of the LED array itself, so the light distribution can be changed additively. One advantage of this technology is that energy is consumed only in those pixels which are switched on. A first headlamp prototype was built and successfully tested in spring 2016 as part of the µAFS project. |
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Car Light Cartel: Major Makers Busted by EC
The European Commission has fined AL and Hella a total of €26.7m for their participation in a cartel against EU antitrust rules. Valeo were not fined,
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Graphene Device Operates in NIR
Graphene is a relatively new material for all its many “miracle” applications, but especially so for photonics,
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3D Printing Centre Opens in Germany
The Aachen Centre for 3D Printing is a newly-opened joint project between Aachen University of Applied Sciences and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology.
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US State Tightens Headlamp Laws
The Southeastern U.S. State of Kentucky will begin on 1 July enforcing a new law: vehicle headlamps must comply with US Federal Motor Vehicle
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Aftermarket LED Lights for Honda Jazz
In the ASEAN markets, the Honda Jazz is available with LED headlamps. But the Jazz sold in India has plain halogen lamps. Now an aftermarket outfit
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Continental Join On With AV Consortium
The circle is growing: In addition to Delphi, Continental will also be working as a partner for the platform for autonomous driving, at BMW, Intel and Mobileye.
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Bosch Plan €1.1bn AV Chip Plant
Bosch will build a billion-euro (USD $1.1bn) semiconductor plant, the biggest single investment in the company’s history, in preparation
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Urban Mobility Solutions from CityMakers
The rapid urbanisation rate raises multiple issues for cities, including transportation networks efficiency. To bring forward solutions,
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