U.S. Philips lumens Company (Philips Lumileds Lighting) is to provide high power LED lighting manufacturers. In the automotive field, the company has been promoting the DRL (day-time running light: daytime running lights) and LED headlamps headlights of other (see site report). Recently, a reporter on the board LED status and future business prospects, interviews the company's Luxeon Automotive (LUXEON Automotive) strategic marketing director Dirk Vanderhaeghen.
Q: Please talk about the LED headlights of the situation and future prospects.
Vanderhaeghen: headlamps with LED DRL and headlights are near light two. In the DRL, the current 5 to 10% of the vehicle is equipped with a LED. After 5 years this proportion may be significantly expanded to 25 ~ 35% or more.
The headlights of the LED light of the recent limited to "luxury cars", so now with less than 1%. In 2012 to 2014, LED will be equipped with the electric vehicle (EV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) to the environmental performance of such models as a selling point. LED models in popularity in the fully equipped estimated to be 2014 ~ 2015. To achieve this goal but need to reduce costs.
Q: Please tell us about the past for the realization of white LED light of the development of low-cost blueprint.
Vanderhaeghen: light required to achieve the performance near the required number of white LED modules and power consumption was reduced in gradually. Specifically, in 2008 our white LED modules for nearly every component necessary to use five lights, power consumption is also up to 50W. The 2009 products are not only each component module with white LED was reduced to three, and the power consumption is reduced to 33W.
Nissan will be held in December 2010 listing of electric vehicles "LEAF (Chinese name: Master wind)" in the last light on the development of our headlamps equipped with white LED. In the last light, each component is equipped with two LED modules. Each LED module to 500lm luminous flux over the entire component of the power consumption is reduced to 25W. We also developed a white LED module with a luminous flux can be made to reach more than 1000lm LED modules. Power consumption is expected to fall to 15 ~ 20W. Expected the market in 2013 with a car.
Reporter: LED on the front headlight high beam will be used to promote?
Vanderhaeghen: high beam on in the car with only a very small part of the LED. Such as the "Audi R8 Spider" and so in the case of this column. These expensive cars do not need too much care costs. High beam headlamps in the car is actually used in only 3% of the time. Only from a cost point of view, it is estimated auto manufacturers will not actively used.
