• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.544-549
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• 2015

Since LEDs (light emitting diodes) have many advantages as a light source in vehicle headlamp, such as good reliability, energy and space saving, and flexible headlamp design. On the other hand, the dependence of its performance and life on temperature have great influence on its practical use. In this study, design and fabrication of heat sink for vehicle LED headlamp were performed using thermally-conductive plastics. This study focused on the effective heat sink structure with limited space in the vehicle LED headlamp. We designed two different prototype of heat sink by thermal simulation using SolidWorks program, which had excellent temperature characteristics. The two different prototype of heat sink were fabricated by injection molding with thermally-conductive plastics. The results showed that LED $T_j$ (junction temperature) of sample B (model 1) and sample C (model 1, 2) was below then $165^{\circ}C$ when applying the thermally-conductive plastics in heat sink of vehicle LED headlamp.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.65-72
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• 2015

Recently, LED light has been increasingly adopted for vehicles in both domestic and foreign automotive markets, while a variety of LED lights have been developed to be used particularly for headlamps. In this paper, we propose an H-type resonant snubber circuit topology for high efficiency of vehicle LDM (LED Driver Module) and realized LDM functions for vehicle headlamp by designing high-efficiency convertors. In addition, this study reduced the financial burden by configuring the system to control the whole with micom except for the use of individual dedicated chips to drive LED for high and low beam. In order to verify the validity of the proposed H-type resonant snubber capable of soft switching, simulations were performed using PSIM. As a result, the validity was experimentally verified by creating a prototype. Moreover, in order to actually attach the headlamp, the performance of the proposed convertor was confirmed by designing LDM to the limited size. Communications between the headlamp and higher controller were realized using LIN(Local Interconnect Network).

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.105-110
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• 2018

Autonomous cars require the integration of multiple communication systems for driving safety. Many carmakers unveil mirrorless concept cars aiming to replace rear and sideview mirrors in vehicles with camera monitoring systems, which eliminate blind spots and reduce risk. This paper presents optical vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications for autonomous mirrorless cars. The flicker-free light emitting diode (LED) light sources, providing illumination and data transmission simultaneously, and a high speed camera are used as transmitters and a receiver in the OCC link, respectively. The rear side vehicle transmits both future action data and vehicle type data using a headlamp or daytime running light, and the front vehicle can receive OCC data from the camera that replaces side mirrors so as not to prevent accidents while driving. Experimental results showed that action and vehicle type information were sent by LED light sources successfully to the front vehicle's camera via the OCC link and proved that OCC-based V2V communications for mirrorless cars can be a viable solution to improve driving safety.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.93-94
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• 2015

최근 자동차 조명시장에서 LED를 이용한 헤드램프 개발이 빠르게 이루어지고 있다. LED 헤드램프는 기존의 할로겐 앰프와 다르게 에너지 효율이 높으며, 헤드램프뿐만 아니라 차량 내부에 다양하게 활용이 가능하다는 장점을 갖는다. 현재 차량에 적용되어 있는 LED 헤드램프 대부분은 SEPIC을 이용한 LED전류제어를 한다. 이러한 경우 헤드램프의 효율은 SEPIC에 의해 대부분 결정이 되며, 부수적인 기능추가를 위해서는 보조 ECU가 추가적으로 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 차량용 헤드램프를 위한 DC/DC컨버터를 제안하고, 이에 대해 검증한다.