Congratulations Prof. Khanh!
This week’s DrivingVisionNews includes a paper written by Professor Khanh about the benefits of LED technology for general lighting, not only for automotive lighting. I would like to take this…
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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.
Prof. Khanh: “LED is a Technology for Quality and Energy efficiency”
Many in the automotive lighting community may not know that the Laboratory for Lighting Technology at TU Darmstadt is the most-involved lab for non-automotive lighting with LEDs in Europe. This includes street light and indoor lighting with LEDs.
Frequently Prof. Dr.-Ing.-habil. Tran Quoc Khanh gives lectures for this other field. It has many developments similar to the automotive lighting area. Street lighting and car front lighting share the roadway lighting task. But we have a 70-year disconnect and a thick border between the two communities. Why?
Here is an extract of an interesting research work performed in the field of general lighting under the responsibility of Prof. Dr.-Ing.-habil. Tran Quoc Khanh.
Aspects of lighting quality and energy efficiency
At the moment, we do not have a useable definition on the term “lighting quality“.
We should use this term as a sum of light quality and illumination quality.
– Light quality should come from the spectral distribution of the light sources, their colour properties and circadian behaviour.
– Illumination quality contains the aspects of luminance and illuminance distribution, the direction of the coming light and glare.
Up to now, the widely used quantity of energy efficiency has been luminous efficacy in lm/W. However, a better quantity would be “luminance or illumination efficacy“ in Lx/W underlining how many electrical power is needed in order to solve an illumination task fulfilling the international or national lighting standards requirements.
LED-Technology and its optimal use for energy efficiency
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Ichikoh: Nissan award for Leaf headlamp
Nisshokai, Nissan suppliers’ meeting) took place on 11th July at the Royal Park Hotel in Yokohama, Japan with participants of 195
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Renault, Jaguar—Land Rover Pick Dassault
Renault and Jaguar—Land Rover have decided in favour of the French PLM software group’s Dassault Version 6 platform.
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208 is New Peugeot Design Harbinger
When it arrives next year, the Peugeot 208 will usher in a new design era for the brand, a top executive said.
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Plastics to Break Glass?
A Chinese or Indian auto maker could be the first to commit to plastic car windows. This according to an executive of Sabic Innovative Plastics.
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FSI Shore Up Valeo in Shareholder Tiff
Valeo, whose management has come under pressure from a restive shareholder, have the support of France’s FSI strategic investment fund.
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Ford Test Live Operators for Sync
Ford are beta testing an ‘Operator Assist’ feature for the cloud-based network of Sync Services, giving all registered users free access to a live
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Ford Sued Over Sync
A small technology company in Washington State, USA, have filed a federal lawsuit against Ford. Eagle Harbor Holdings say they developed
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Nissan Executive VP Talks to Just-Auto
Andy Palmer, Executive VP of Nissan, recently spoke with Just-Auto. Here are the highlights:
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