LED as a light source is making big changes in automotive lighting field. The optical system has been changed to adopt a LED. For example in the engineering field, we have used a heatsink and FAN to dissipate a heat in the LED optical system. Before w...
LED as a light source is making big changes in automotive lighting field. The optical system has been changed to adopt a LED. For example in the engineering field, we have used a heatsink and FAN to dissipate a heat in the LED optical system. Before we have used a LED, we had just adopted a natural convection instead of forced convections.
And also style of headlamp has a big change. Normally headlamp has a big circle image to express an eye of vehicle. But now, LED headlamps express their own design characteristic by using different looks.
LED gives us many chances to use putting plastic materials into the headlamps. One of big chances is a temperature in the system. Before using LED, traditional light sources has high temperature. That is why we have to use a glass to make an optical lens into a optical system.
LED optical system could use a plastic lens. it means we can make almost all kinds of shapes through the plastic injection molding.
Already some car manufactures are adopting this technology into their design to express to all customer their own identity. Especially premium automotive companies.
To use this technology, we have to overcome a big defect to adopt this technology. That is a 'Color abberation' near the cut off line of low beam. First of all, I am looking forward to understand why we need this technology in automotive field. so I will describe main factors about the automotive optical system in this thesis. After that, I have to study what is the problem and find causes. Then, I will analyze and find a new solution.