Technical Paper
Adaptive Front-Lighting System in LED Technology - Initial Steps and the Future
2007-04-16
2007-01-0873
In the middle of 2006, the first car equipped with an intelligent AFS (Adaptive Front-lighting System) headlamp went into serial production and has, until now, generated a very positive reaction in the press all over the world. The different AFS beam patterns in this car are generated by a Xenon AFS projector module, which works in combination with a swiveling actuator system. One of the big innovative steps in automotive front-lighting technology that is soon to be released is the introduction of the LED (Light Emitting Diode) as a new light source for headlamp applications. The benchmark for this new light source technology is of course the well accepted performance level of today's HID headlamp systems. On the one hand, it is very important to achieve the HID performance level in terms of luminous flux, peak intensities, distribution characteristics, homogeneity and other positive attributes.