• The Optical Journal
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• s.145
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• pp.31-35
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• 2013

최근 자동차에 사용되는 조명은 LED가 주를 이루고 있다. 자동차 실내조명, 계기판 등에 사용되는 내부 조명의 경우 대부분 LED를 적용한 제품이며, 헤드램프, 후방 램프 및 방향 지시등과 같은 외부 조명의 경우도 LED로 교체되고 있다. 특히 LED 기반 헤드램프의 경우 과거 3500cc 이상 승용차 등에 한정되었으나 현재는 그 이하 레벨의 승용차 및 SUV 차량으로 범위가 빠르게 확산되고 있다. 고효율, 긴 수명 및 빠른 응답 속도가 장점인 LED를 차량용 조명 광원으로 사용함으로써 기존 할로겐램프나 HID 광원의 대체재로서의 전환이 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 할로겐램프의 경우 청색보다 적색 파장의 광량이 많은 관계로 황색에 가까운 백색을 보이며, HID 램프의 경우 할로겐램프보다는 백색 계열에 더 가깝다. 하지만 LED 램프는 파장의 순도가 높아 보다 완벽한 백색 구현이 가능하다. 또한 단순한 기능을 지닌 헤드램프에서 지능형 헤드램프로의 발전이 빠르게 이루어지고 있다. 이에 따른 LED의 수요 또한 증가할 것으로 예상된다. 향후 고효율 LED 소자의 개발과 함께 자동차용 LED 조명에 대한 적용은 급속도로 진행될 것으로 예상되며, 앞으로 자동차 조명 분야에서는 'LED 헤드램프/후미등 기술+IT 기술(센서+통신)'이 융합된 형태로 발전할 것이다. 본고에서는 LED 자동차 융합 기술 동향 및 전망에 대해 자세히 기술하였다.

• 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.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.368-378
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• 2023

Automotive headlamp with LED matrix exploits low-cost low-speed serial buses such as I2C and SPI for digital LED control. When headlamp resolution increases, LED control data significantly increases to exceed capacity of control bus. This paper proposes HLCP (Headlamp LED Control Protocol), a novel LED maxtrix headlamp protocol. The proposed protocol exploits dedicated instructions to control many LEDs simultaneously, so it can control much more LEDs than conventional control buses although it is basically based on I2C bus. It is designed and verified in Verilog HDL. Simulation results show that HLCP can control LED matrix headlamp more efficiently than I2C and SPI.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.443-444
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• 2006

The influence of the heat sources on LED junction temperature are Engine room air, Back plate, Electric power device, and so on. LED lamp cooling system is considered to be an important subject fur high light efficiency. Because LED Chip will be problem When LED junction temperature be over $135^{\circ}C$, In this Study, The Looped Heat Pipe System is considered to prevent LED Chip fall. The LHPS is consist of evaporator part, condenser part, heat pipe part. The working fluid of LHPS is HCFC-123. In this study, to prevent LED Chipfall, we study thermal characteristics for Looped Heat Pipe System with LED lamp.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.5-11
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• 2012

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.569-575
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• 2011

Since the high heat generation of LED chips can cause a reduction in lifetime, degradation of luminous efficiency, and variation of color temperature, studies have been carried out on the optimization of LED packaging and heat sinks. Recently, LED packages have been applied to high-power lights such as car headlamps or street lights, and it is known that cooling using only free convection is not at all efficient. Thus, in this study, a heat pipe with forced convection was examined for the optimization of the cooling performance in high-power LED lights. In addition, optimal on-off control of a fan was adopted to increase the fan lifetime, since the lifetime of the fan is generally shorter than that of the LEDs.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.129
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• pp.14-16
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• 2010

자동차 헤드램프용 비구면 렌즈를 비롯하여 첨단IT기종에 적용되는 다양한 특수 렌즈 및 부품을 전문생산하고 있는 아주광학(대표 최상관, www.ajuoptical.co.kr)은 신기술에 대한 끊임없는 도전의지와 국산화개발 노력을 통해 화려한 변신을 추구하는 업체이다. 내수와 수출을 50:50으로 균형 있게 갖고 가고 있으며 최근에는 독자적인 LED조명등을 개발하여 발명특허를 출원하고 계속해서 사업영역을 확대해 나가고 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.947-951
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• 2009

LED has the merits of high reliability, semi-permanent life, rapid-response and its small size for use as light source of head lamp. But the dependence of its performance and life on temperature affect on its practical use. Which dependence makes problem when the LED is heated up to a higher temperature level by self-generation of heat, due to "highly integration" to get enough quantity of light. To solve this problem, effective cooling system is needed that consider conduction, convection and radiation. This study points out the limits of natural convection cooling system and propose of forced convection with heat sink. Also, it describes a correlation between heat sink area and fluid velocity using numerical analysis to optimize the cooling system.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.32-36
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• 2021

In this study, the cause of the decrease in transmittance of the outer lens among the causes of the decrease in the amount of light in the automobile headlamp was identified, and the improvement method was selected to determine the effect. The causes of defects that lower the transmittance of the outer lens are divided into a moisture problem and a haze problem. The moisture problem is caused by the temperature difference between the inside and the outside of the head lamp, and the haze problem occurs when the heat inside the head lamp evaporates the haze component contained in the plastic material and attaches it to the outer lens. In order to improve the haze problem that occurs in plastic raw materials, the structures of the bulb light source type headlamp and the LED chip light source type headlamp were analyzed. Among them, the housing material of the LED chip light source type headlamp, which is structurally prone to haze gas, was selected as the test target. In the mass-production injection process of the housing, the drying process was selected as a method to minimize haze gas without adding a separate production process. After extracting a sample every drying time at a constant drying temperature, the sample was put into a haze tester and the residual amount of haze gas was measured. As a result, it was confirmed that the residual amount of Haze gas in the material decreased as the drying time increased.

• 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).