Safety and Styling of Future Rear Lights

Kleinkes, Michael; Schmidt, Christian; Mügge, Martin; Hohmann, Carsten

doi:10.1365/s35595-012-0092-1

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“…It is becoming clear that vehicle designers are very committed to designing lights to produce a design typical of the brand with great perfection. This work is based primarily on three technological design features: light guide technologies, homogeneously illuminated light areas, and three-dimensional effects [1,2]. The light guide is a dominating design element in lighting technology.…”

Section: Design Of Current Production Lampsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The principle of a mirror tunnel [1][2][3] achieves an impressive tunnel-shaped depth effect in a flat installation pocket (Figure 4).…”

Section: Design Of Current Production Lampsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Light guides support the styling of a lamp like no other optical system before. The freedom of design for creating new signatures and appearances and the execution of a light guide as a rod-shaped or flat expanded element offer the designer maximum potential for individual styling as well as for the development of brand-typical stylistics [1,2].…”

Section: Light Guide Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Hella lighting experts have designed glowing body systems in two different directions [1][2][3]: on the one hand, to allow the use of light functions with higher demands on the luminous intensity, such as stop light, direction indicator, and daytime running light and, on the other hand, to allow diffusely illuminated three-dimensional elements with a depth effect ( Figure 10).…”

Section: Glowing Bodies and Threedimensional Illuminantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The three-dimensional glowing body [1,2] is not a solid element. It consists of a lens, which is shaped accordingly from translucent material or a transparent plastic material with a surface structure and an optic system arranged behind it.…”

Section: Glowing Bodies and Threedimensional Illuminantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Signal lights – designed light for rear lamps and new upcoming technologies: innovations in automotive lighting

Mügge

Hohmann

2016

Advanced Optical Technologies

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Signal functions have to fulfill statutory regulations such as ECE or FMVSS108 to provide a clear signal to other road users and satisfy the same standard definitions of lighting parameters. However, as rear combination lamps are very different from one another, and these days are an increasingly powerful design element of cars, automotive manufacturers want an innovative, superior, and contrasting design. Daytime appearances with a new and unusual look and nighttime appearances with unexpected illumination are strong drivers for developing amazing innovative signal functions. The combination of LED technology and different forms of light-guiding optics, new interpretations of common optical systems to develop various styling options, the use of new materials and components for lighting effects, the introduction of OLED technology on the automotive market, and amazing new optical systems, using diffractive or holographic optics in future rear lamps, are paving the way for further, exciting design possibilities. The challenge of new signal functions is to take these possibilities and to develop the appearance and illumination effects the designer wants to reinforce the image of the car manufacturer and to fit harmoniously into the vehicle design. Lighting systems with a three-dimensional design and appearance when unlit and lit, amazing 3D effects, and surprising lighting scenarios will gain in importance. But the signal lights on cars will, in the future, be not only lighting functions in rear lamps; new functions and stylistic illuminations for coming/leaving-home scenarios will support and complete the car’s overall lighting appearance. This paper describes current lighting systems realizing the styling requirements and future lighting systems offering new design possibilities and developing further stylistic, visual effects and improved technologies.

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Section: Design Of Current Production Lampsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The principle of a mirror tunnel [1][2][3] achieves an impressive tunnel-shaped depth effect in a flat installation pocket (Figure 4).…”

Section: Design Of Current Production Lampsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Light Guide Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Glowing Bodies and Threedimensional Illuminantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Glowing Bodies and Threedimensional Illuminantsmentioning

confidence: 99%