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Automotive Adaptive Front Lighting Requiring Only On/Off Modulation of Multi-array LEDs

  • Lee, Jun Ho (Department of Optical Engineering, Kongju National University) ;
  • Byeon, Jina (Department of Optical Engineering, Kongju National University) ;
  • Go, Dong Jin (Automobile Electronics Design Center, SL Lighting Corporation) ;
  • Park, Jong Ryul (Automobile Electronics Design Center, SL Lighting Corporation)
  • Received : 2017.04.13
  • Accepted : 2017.05.29
  • Published : 2017.06.25
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Abstract

The Adaptive Front-lighting System (AFS) is a part of the active safety system, providing optimized vision to the driver during night time and other poor-sight conditions of the road by automatic adaptation of lighting to environmental and traffic conditions. Basically, an AFS provides four different modes of the passing beam as designated in an United Nations Economic Commission for Europe regulation (ECE324-R123): neutral state or country light (Class C), urban light (Class V), highway light (Class E), and adverse weather light (Class W). In this paper, we first present an optics design for an AFS system capable of producing the Class C/V/E/W patterns requiring only on/off modulation of multi-array LEDs with no need for any additional mechanical components. The AFS optics consists of two separated modules, cutoff and spread; the cutoff module lights a narrow central area with high luminous intensity, satisfying the cutoff regulation, and the spread module forms a wide spread beam of low luminous intensity. Each module consists of two major parts; the first converts a discretely positioned LED array into a full-filled area emitting light source plane, and the second projects the light source plane to a 25 m away target plane. With the combination of these two optics modules, the four beam patterns are formed by simple on/off modulation of multi-array LEDs. Then we report the development of a prototype that was demonstrated to provide the four beam patterns.

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