Investigation of structure in the modular light pipe component for LED automotive lamp

Hsi-Chao Chen; Yang Zhou; Chien-Sheng Huang; Wan-Ling Jhong; Bo-Wei Cheng; Jhe-Ming Jhang

doi:10.1117/12.2060518

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18 September 2014 Investigation of structure in the modular light pipe component for LED automotive lamp

Hsi-Chao Chen, Yang Zhou, Chien-Sheng Huang, Wan-Ling Jhong, Bo-Wei Cheng, Jhe-Ming Jhang

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Proceedings Volume 9190, Thirteenth International Conference on Solid State Lighting; 919010 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060518
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have the advantages of small length, long lifetime, fast response time (μs), low voltage, good mechanical properties and environmental protection. Furthermore, LEDs could replace the halogen lamps to avoid the mercury pollution and economize the use of energy. Therefore, the LEDs could instead of the traditional lamp in the future and became an important light source. The proposal of this study was to investigate the effects of the structure and length of the reflector component for a LED automotive lamp. The novel LED automotive lamp was assembled by several different modularization columnar. The optimized design of the different structure and the length to the reflector was simulated by software TracePro. The design result must met the vehicle regulation of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) such as ECE-R19 etc. The structure of the light pipe could be designed by two steps structure. Then constitute the proper structure and choose different power LED to meet the luminous intensity of the vehicle regulation. The simulation result shows the proper structure and length has the best total luminous flux and a high luminous efficiency for the system. Also, the stray light could meet the vehicle regulation of ECE R19. Finally, the experimental result of the selected structure and length of the light pipe could match the simulation result above 80%.

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Hsi-Chao Chen, Yang Zhou, Chien-Sheng Huang, Wan-Ling Jhong, Bo-Wei Cheng, and Jhe-Ming Jhang "Investigation of structure in the modular light pipe component for LED automotive lamp", Proc. SPIE 9190, Thirteenth International Conference on Solid State Lighting, 919010 (18 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060518

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