Important Tuesday for DVN
Since 2011, Sylvain Dubois has been holding management and directorial positions of growing importance; in 2019, he became CEO of Marelli Automotive Lighting, dedicated to exterior lighting and increasingly in ADAS sensing. In his 27 years (and counting!) in the automotive industry, he’s lived and worked in France, the UK, the USA, Spain, Germany, Italy,…
No engine, therefore no cooling system, therefore no radiator, therefore no radiator grille! In an electric vehicle, the grille space can be redesigned and repurposed with illuminated displays and logos and LED light strips. Hella have now demonstrated their distinctive lighting and electronics expertise front-and-centre on the new Mercedes EQA.The main light strip, a metre…
Auto Motor und Sport, Germany’s foremost car magazine, published last week a long article on lighting. Consulted and quoted were Audi’s Head of Lighting Development Michael Kruppa, and Head of Headlamp and Front Lighting Development Michael Hamm. The article presents the history of lighting and the arrival of LEDs in rear lamps and then years…
Seoul Semiconductorhaveannounced the launch of their new Wicop TE LEDs, which stand to significantly improve thermal efficiency of LED headlamps. With increasing prevalence of electric vehicles, Seoul Semiconductor expect accelerated expansion of their market share in the global vehicle LED market of approximately USD $2.7bn. The Wicop TE departs from previous methods of attaching the…
Stephane Vedie, newly installed as CEO of Myotek, says “We do have a great engineering team in Irvine [California]. We bring innovation and technology to our customers thanks to our creativity, speed and flexibility. I was impressed by our electronic design, simulation tools, state of the art optic, rapid prototyping and validation capabilities”.Myotek have an…
The headlamp aim and validation wizards at Dajac have brought forth their new Osprey HS10 validation machine. It’s a 10-metre tunnel containing a high resolution, low noise, lab grade photometric camera, along with the Expert I/O to interface with external devices and a wireless keyboard and mouse. Based on Dajac’s IntelliAim software, the HS10 brings…
WaveOptics, specialist designers of diffractive waveguides for AR (augmented reality) wearables, have announced a strategic supplier relationship with Jade Bird Display (JBD) for microLED microdisplays. The Leopard, WaveOptics’ latest development kit, demonstrates an advanced level of readily deployable and customisable AR technology. It is the closest form-factor akin to traditional consumer eyewear available from the UK…
Modern high-definition headlamps are designed for two main applications: advanced lighting functions—ADB, AFS, traffic spot marking lights—and road projections to assist or warn the driver.There are different technical solutions to highly pixelated advanced lighting and road projection headlamps, each with its own benefits and drawbacks. DMD-based solutions will have difficulties penetrating the mass market because…
The Luminar Technologies company are acquiring their InGaAs chip design partner and manufacturer, OptoGration, for that company’s core IP and supply chain capacity. The buy comes as Luminar scale their latest lidar sensors into series production and will enable deeper integration with their existing chip design subsidiary Black Forest Engineering (BFE), bought by Luminar in…
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