• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.368-378
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• 2023

LED 매트릭스를 사용하는 차량용 헤드램프에서 LED의 디지털 제어는 I2C, SPI 등의 저가격 저속 직렬 버스를 사용하여 왔으나 헤드램프의 해상도가 증가하면서 LED 제어를 위해 전송해야 하는 데이터의 양이 너무 많아 제어 버스의 전송 능력을 초과하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 새로운 차량용 LED 매트릭스 헤드램프 제어 프로토콜인 HLCP(Headlamp LED Control Protocol)을 제안한다. 제안하는 프로토콜은 많은 LED를 하나의 명령어로 제어하는 명령어를 사용하여 I2C 버스를 거의 그대로 사용하면서도 훨씬 많은 LED를 제어할 수 있다. 제안하는 프로토콜을 수행하는 컨트롤러를 Verilog HDL로 구현 및 검증하였으며 시뮬레이션 결과 LED 매트릭스 헤드램프를 I2C나 SPI보다 효율적으로 제어할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.544-549
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• 2015

Since LEDs (light emitting diodes) have many advantages as a light source in vehicle headlamp, such as good reliability, energy and space saving, and flexible headlamp design. On the other hand, the dependence of its performance and life on temperature have great influence on its practical use. In this study, design and fabrication of heat sink for vehicle LED headlamp were performed using thermally-conductive plastics. This study focused on the effective heat sink structure with limited space in the vehicle LED headlamp. We designed two different prototype of heat sink by thermal simulation using SolidWorks program, which had excellent temperature characteristics. The two different prototype of heat sink were fabricated by injection molding with thermally-conductive plastics. The results showed that LED $T_j$ (junction temperature) of sample B (model 1) and sample C (model 1, 2) was below then $165^{\circ}C$ when applying the thermally-conductive plastics in heat sink of vehicle LED headlamp.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제29권10호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2015

Recently, LED light has been increasingly adopted for vehicles in both domestic and foreign automotive markets, while a variety of LED lights have been developed to be used particularly for headlamps. In this paper, we propose an H-type resonant snubber circuit topology for high efficiency of vehicle LDM (LED Driver Module) and realized LDM functions for vehicle headlamp by designing high-efficiency convertors. In addition, this study reduced the financial burden by configuring the system to control the whole with micom except for the use of individual dedicated chips to drive LED for high and low beam. In order to verify the validity of the proposed H-type resonant snubber capable of soft switching, simulations were performed using PSIM. As a result, the validity was experimentally verified by creating a prototype. Moreover, in order to actually attach the headlamp, the performance of the proposed convertor was confirmed by designing LDM to the limited size. Communications between the headlamp and higher controller were realized using LIN(Local Interconnect Network).

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.145-148
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• 2008

In recent years, LED's have been adopted for and ever widening range of applications and numerous examples of the replacement of incandescent and fluorescent light sources due to the dramatic improvements in the efficiency of white LED's can be found. Automotive lighting devices, as with other lighting equipment, should exhibit low power consumption, long lifetime and provide new design opportunities. In this paper, an overview of trends of technology and standardization of LED headlamp were investigated and performed various experiments using LED headlamp.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.351-357
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• 2017

This paper proposes a LED bicycle headlamp with a wide viewing angle to help bicyclists see the front effectively and because of its high visibility to reduce the risks of accidents around intersections or blind spots. The wide viewing angle was determined to be $28^{\circ}$ because it can illuminate a 5 m wide area 10 m away. Therefore, the road conditions of the intersection can be observed with the bicycle handlebar tilted slightly to the left or right. The headlamp has a compact reflector with a width of 30 mm, height of 27 mm, and length of 17 mm. Owing to its size, a change in the position of a light source leads to severe changes in light distribution. Therefore, the tolerance of the source position was analyzed by a simulation. The tolerance was ${\pm}0.5mm$ at the X, Y and Z axes within a less centered aiming range of ${\pm}1^{\circ}$. Finally, the prototype of the bicycle headlamp was made and the light distribution was measured by an automotive headlamp light measurement system. The experimental results indicate that the headlamp illuminates a 5 m wide area with an edge light of 3.2 lx as well as meeting the K-mark regulation.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.421-426
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• 2012

As headlamp technology advances, newly developed various headlamps were introduced in the market. The objective of this study is to quantitatively analyze the detection distance of the recently developed LED headlamps and existing headlamps, complying with specific technical standard. Background: The detection distance of headlamps is very important to prevent automobile accident at night time. The studies of detection distance of LED, Halogen and HID headlamp have been conducted, but no study has shown the detection distance of pedestrian target with various colors (Black, White, Blue). Method: The experiment of detection distance was conducted with 30 people, which divide into 2 groups as 15 men and 15 women. Automatic transferable target on the rail was manufactured in order to reduce the error of study's result, and ANOVA also conducted to analyze the main effect with sign color, sex and headlamp classified by detection distance. In addition, the luminance by average detection distance was measured as well. Results: The detection distance of headlamps was HID > LED > Halogen. The luminance measure of LED headlamp was lower than HID and Halogen headlamps. Conclusion: The headlamp performs a very significant role for safety at night time but it needs to be improved through assessment of visual characteristics. Also, it needs to be suggested the need of test method for dynamic detection distance concerning technical development is suggested.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.443-444
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• 2006

The influence of the heat sources on LED junction temperature are Engine room air, Back plate, Electric power device, and so on. LED lamp cooling system is considered to be an important subject fur high light efficiency. Because LED Chip will be problem When LED junction temperature be over $135^{\circ}C$, In this Study, The Looped Heat Pipe System is considered to prevent LED Chip fall. The LHPS is consist of evaporator part, condenser part, heat pipe part. The working fluid of LHPS is HCFC-123. In this study, to prevent LED Chipfall, we study thermal characteristics for Looped Heat Pipe System with LED lamp.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.32-36
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• 2021

In this study, the cause of the decrease in transmittance of the outer lens among the causes of the decrease in the amount of light in the automobile headlamp was identified, and the improvement method was selected to determine the effect. The causes of defects that lower the transmittance of the outer lens are divided into a moisture problem and a haze problem. The moisture problem is caused by the temperature difference between the inside and the outside of the head lamp, and the haze problem occurs when the heat inside the head lamp evaporates the haze component contained in the plastic material and attaches it to the outer lens. In order to improve the haze problem that occurs in plastic raw materials, the structures of the bulb light source type headlamp and the LED chip light source type headlamp were analyzed. Among them, the housing material of the LED chip light source type headlamp, which is structurally prone to haze gas, was selected as the test target. In the mass-production injection process of the housing, the drying process was selected as a method to minimize haze gas without adding a separate production process. After extracting a sample every drying time at a constant drying temperature, the sample was put into a haze tester and the residual amount of haze gas was measured. As a result, it was confirmed that the residual amount of Haze gas in the material decreased as the drying time increased.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.231-236
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 멀티 어레이 엘이디를 이용한 불연속적인 광원의 빔 패턴이 광학계만으로 연속적인 매트릭스 빔으로 형성되어 광원의 점 소등만으로 다양한 빔 패턴을 구현할 수 있는 지능형 전조등의 광학 설계를 연구하였다. 기존 지능형 전조등의 기술과 다르게 멀티 어레이 엘이디를 이용한 지능형 전조등은 다수의 광원 엘이디와 하나의 광학계 어셈블리 모듈 구성으로 전자 제어를 통해 별도의 기구적인 작동 없이 빔 패턴을 변화시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서 광학 설계는 상향등과 자동 조정 주행등의 패턴 구현과 광도 값을 만족시키기 위해 LED 앞 단에 2차렌즈 설계와 측벽 설계, 투사렌즈 설계를 실시하였다. 그 결과 불연속적인 광원의 패턴이 광학계를 통해 전방 25 m에서 14개의 동일한 사이즈와 밝기를 갖는 셀들이 모여 연속적인 하나의 매트릭스 빔 패턴을 형성하는 설계 조건을 만족하였다. 또한 설계된 광학계의 제작 및 측정을 통해 상향등의 원거리 시인성을 위한 최대 45000 cd 이상의 배광 법규 조건을 약 50000 cd로 만족하였고, 자동 조정 주행 빔 패턴 구현 시 광원의 소등 영역이 0.32 lx로 측정되어 배광 법규 0.4 lx 이하를 만족하였다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.270-274
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• 2014

Currently, LED headlamps are only attached to newly manufactured vehicles, and it remains difficult to mount LED headlamps on used cars. Therefore LED headlamps need to be developed for used cars as a replacement of their halogen lamps. Due to a number of spatial limitations, it is critical to ensure a certain level of thermal performance. In order to obtain a design for efficient heat radiation, this paper aimed to optimize thermal management through a combination of heat sinks, heat pipes and fans. Based on such a design, this paper succeeded in developing LED headlamps of the desired performance to replace the halogen bulbs of used cars.