The industrial revolution or welcome enterprises to snatch LED lamp pie?

BITAUTO. News from the car, the date of birth, an important issue is the driving safety of the automobile lighting. From the earliest incandescent lamp, halogen lamp to xenon lamp, and now is becoming the new darling of the market LED lights, the development of the car industry has been more than 100 years.

Now, the lights have not only need to meet the lighting needs, according to the Ministry of planning, as of the end of 2015, automotive lighting needs to achieve carbon dioxide emission reduction targets. In addition, the new wave of security and intelligence are also flocked, these are for the development of the car market provides a new benchmark.

A situation of tripartite confrontation pattern of the market

Overview of market, the market has formed a basic lamp halogen lamp, xenon lamp, LED lamp (HID) three based separation pattern.

From 1960 for halogen lamp has gone through more than half a century, and it can be used in long-term car has its reason, its biggest advantage is that it has formed the scale of market economy, which makes its manufacturing cost is cheap, it is also a major cause of it can still exist in the market. The disadvantages of halogen lamps are self-evident: light output efficiency, short irradiation distance.

Xenon headlamps (English referred to as HID, namely high intensity discharge lamp) in the early last century began in 90s and used cars, it has the advantage of the illumination brightness is 2 times of halogen lamps, electrical energy into light energy efficiency increased by 80% compared with halogen lamps, and energy consumption is only for halogen lamp 2/3, the service life of up to 10 times. In addition, in light of the light emitted by the xenon headlamps and the light of the sun is almost the same, xenon headlamps can create a better visual condition. Therefore, in the automotive lighting market, xenon lamp still occupies a dominant position.

In recent years, there has been a new darling of the lamp Market - LED light source technology. LED (English named Light Emitting Diode), light emitting diode, it is a kind of semiconductor electronic components capable of emitting light, LED lamp because it has the characteristics of high brightness, color variety, low power consumption, small volume, long service life, and is widely used in automobile field. As a representative of the new generation of energy saving and environmental protection, LED has begun to replace the xenon lamp momentum. According to statistics, the relative efficiency of LED light output xenon lamp and halogen lamp has an absolute advantage, the optical performance of a 1000 Watt halogen lamps and 200 Watt LED lamps are roughly the same, the service life of up to 30000 hours, is 10 times the xenon lamp. The day before, such as OSRAM, PHILPS, Hella lights supplier chiefs are also in the research and development efforts, increase the LED technology can be said, LED is becoming a new blue ocean car market.

LED headlamps can be expected to face a wide range of constraints

2010 years ago, the average growth rate of domestic LED automotive lighting market was 13%, and in recent years, the market growth rate of LED lights up to more than 40%. It is predicted that this year, LED lighting market will take off, China's LED industry scale or will reach 500 billion. As a result, LED automotive lamps to promote the industry to become optimistic about the big cake, the future prospects of great.

Needless to say, LED because of its environmental protection, energy saving, rich colors and many other advantages of popular. The fact is true, LED lamp as a vehicle auxiliary lamp has been widely used in many areas, such as turning lights, fog lights, LED are replaced by other forms of light. However, the LED lamp has not exploded, after all, the cost is undoubtedly a major culprit: OEM consider is compared with the traditional LED lamp lights up to two to three times the cost price, and lamp suppliers consider is the pre technology research and development of high investment, which for some independent brands car prices and traditional lamp suppliers particularly.

Apart from the cost, according to insiders said that a major challenge for the complexity of the LED system also hinder the technology into the mature stage: reliable thermal management system, effective, compact optical design and drive extremely complex, these technical barriers have to be further breakthrough.

Therefore, in terms of the domestic market, LED if you want to completely replace the traditional lamps need a long period of transition. Currently on the market configuration LED headlamps are mainly concentrated in a small number of high-end models (represented by Audi). Among them, the high brake lights and side steering lights use more LED light source, headlight lighting because of the lighting distance and brightness problems have not yet formed a mature industrial model.

Although the cost of LED light source, technology and regulations and other issues have not yet been broken, however, I believe that with the future LED costs continue to decline with the simultaneous improvement of technology, LED will be more widely used in the automotive field.

Smart headlights technology or will lead the industry change

From the field of automotive lighting, the rapid development of the automotive industry technology, the direction of its development is more and more intelligent and green. Laser headlamps, intelligent LED headlamps, matrix LED headlamp technology...... More and more new technologies are emerging, a new revolution in the automotive industry is about to start.

It is understood that the intelligent headlight technology on the market today mainly by the German model leader, such as Benz new generation S intelligent LED headlight with active steering lighting, turning auxiliary lighting, rural roads, highways and fog mode, unique shading function is able to erase the vehicle or to the same light camouflage, each headlight assembly contains up to 56 LED, which can realize the lighting, or extinguished