Driven by policy, LED lights and the main lighting market began to erupt

The European Union and other countries have announced that the new car to install day lights, as well as a comprehensive ban, ban the incandescent lamp act, together with the safety verification standards are ready, in the incentive to increase the demand for LED lights and main lighting. To catch the market opportunity, LED component, LED driver IC and other manufacturers have resorted to complete system to plan, to eat a huge business opportunities.

The European Union standard in 2012 all kinds of new cars are required to install the exclusive day light (DRL), to ensure safe driving. In addition, including the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, Argentina and other countries have officially announced that, at the latest in 2014 will be fully prohibited and banned incandescent. In the promotion of national policies, LED (LED) daytime lights and the main lighting applications have become the light source after the backlight and street lighting market, LED manufacturers to focus on the layout of the business opportunities.

National policies to accelerate the main lighting LED lamp / Universal

In order to make driving safer, the EU in September 24, 2008 notice requirements since the beginning of February 2011, a new type of all cars, small trucks must be equipped with a lamp; and the other is the truck and bus since August 7, 2012 shall be equipped with daytime running lights. In addition to outside the European Union, other countries have gradually started to regulate all kinds of cars are required to install new car lamp, is currently the only Canadian regulations which allow the replacement lamp.

The expert points out, because the lamp must keep the brightness in the vehicle, the power consumption of the traditional lamp for headlight 25 ~ 30%, and has low power consumption and long service life of LED light source advantage has become the new trend of manufacturers R & D, if the use of lamp LED only 10% of the power consumption of the headlamp. Taking into account the driving safety and energy demand trends, the development of LED daylight lamp will be imperative to become LED manufacturers to expand the new business opportunities in the car market.

The car manufacturer Audi (Audi) launched the LED lamp is the most active, its A8, R8 and A4 series are equipped with LED daytime running lights, using PHILPS A8 (Philips) Lumileds Luxeon Emittor as the lamp light source; R8 and A4 is the choice of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (OSRAM Opto Semiconductor)). Advanced Power TopLED and Golden DRAGON LED; even expected published in 2010 of the third generation of A8 will be fully into the lamp LED. In addition, many car manufacturers have launched in the first half of this year, the new car is also equipped with LED daytime lights, such as Mercedes Benz (Benz), etc..

In fact, in addition to daylight lights, LED has been widely used in interior lighting, including dashboard, backlit buttons, sunroof, head up display, etc.. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors said, the car with the selected color (Color on Demand) to identify the color function for car manufacturers can use the company's unique, creative differences with competitors, or to use different colors to distinguish different series.

In addition, the proportion of the use of external LED lights are also rising, such as the 2008 Cadillac (Cadilac) Escalade LED first used the headlights. PHILPS Lumileds said, listed Ling Zhi (Lexus) LS600h and Audi R8 are loaded LED headlights, which Ling Zhi used is the PHILPS Lumileds and arias (Nichia) high power LED. As for the LED third brake lights, taillights, direction lights, side lights, dipped beam and high beam lamp demand is also growing. LED is also often used in the middle part of the car tail lights, in addition to taking into account the size of small, stable temperature and long life and other characteristics, the other advantage for the reaction speed, the driver can step on the brake pad in the twinkling of an eye. For example, Nissan (Nissan) Tiana (Chrysler) and Chrysler third brake lights, lights and light direction are adopting LED light source.

Even if the LED brake lights, lights and other lights direction technology has matured, but the LED car headlights, front fog lights and other lights have not benefited from the popularity of class, but the DRL decree LED lamp has become a hot application.

On the other hand, in order to adapt to the trend of energy conservation and emission reduction, countries gradually since 2009 to stop the production, disable the incandescent light bulb, especially the EU will since September this year, banned the sale of the traditional 100 watt bulb, 2012 fully disable all traditional light bulbs for the first implementation of the regional.

Forecast according to the market research agency LEDinside, as governments banned incandescent lamp schedules have been released, the product of global lighting effect will update from 2010 to 2012 gradually fermentation, to 2012, LED lighting field compound annual growth rate of 33%. In the LED light-emitting efficiency and cost reduction, the future of LED lighting will be able to enter the field of indoor lighting.

In the national government energy policy attention, will drive LED lamp and lighting market demand as soon as possible to ensure product performance, reliability and safety, the European Union and the North American government and safety verification mechanism is duty for the lights and the main lighting set out the relevant standards and certification.

Standard / safety verification for LED lamp lighting business wildly beating gongs and drums / dazzling

The LED daytime running lights and headlights were developed ECE R112 and ECE R87 specification, the expert points out, LED lights with the traditional lamp test are quite different, because the LED light source light intensity will gradually improve, called the period of stability, so the EU regulations in the light of LED light source shall be within 1 minutes to reach the minimum illumination requirements, steady stage in 30 minutes after light illumination and also in light after 1 minutes and 30 minutes, to achieve different types of lamp brightness value of the upper and lower limits, such as lamp upper and lower limit value of individual 1200cd and 400C