Plastic Material or Materials for Use in Optical Parts Such as Lenses and Reflex Reflectors of Motor Vehicle Lighting Devices J576_201708

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4271/J576_201708

Issuing Committee: Lighting Materials Standards Committee

Publisher: SAE International

Pages: 6

Rationale: This document is being updated for the 5-year document review. The changes made were to the include common wording for the scope of lighting committee documents and the last sentence of the scope has been removed. SAE J578 has been updated for the use of “Non-incandescent” sources and uses the language “The color of light emitted from the device shall fall within the following boundaries…”, therefore SAE J576 has been updated to harmonize language with SAE J578 allowing for light sources that emit light in a narrow spectrum and are not fully reliant on the color of the lens to filter a broad-spectrum light source. Use of the CIE 1931 standard colorimetric observer (2° observer) in optical measurements is now clearly specified and the haze for forward road illumination devices, excluding cornering lamps, shall not be greater than 7% after outdoor exposure.