LED Headlight Architecture that creates a High （LED大灯架构,创建一个高）.pdfVIP

LED Headlight Architecture that creates a High Quality Beam Pattern independent of LED Shortcomings 1a c b c c Oliver Dross , Aleksandra Cvetkovic , Julio Chaves , Pablo Benítez , Juan C. Miñano aLPI Europe, Marques de Urquijo 14, 5D, 28008 Madrid, Spain bLight Prescriptions Innovators LLC, 16662 Hale Ave., Irvine, CA 92606, US c CEDINT Technical University of Madrid (UPM), ETSI Telecomunicación, C. Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain ABSTRACT One of the most challenging applications for high brightness LEDs is in automotive headlights. Optical designs for a low or high beam headlights are plagued by the low flux and luminance of LEDs compared to HID or incandescent sources, by mechanical chip placement tolerances and by color and flux variations between different LEDs. Furthermore the creation of a sharp cutoff is very difficult without baffles or other lossy devices. We present a novel LED headlight design that addresses all of the above problems by mixing the light of several LEDs first in a tailored light guide called LED combiner, thereby reducing color and flux variations between different LEDs and illuminance and color variations across the LED surfaces. The LED combiner forms a virtual source tailored to the application. The illuminance distribution of this virtual source facilitates the generation of the desired intensity pattern by projecting it into the far field. The projection is accomplished by one refractive and one reflective freeform surface calculated by the 3D SMS method. A high quality intensity pattern shape and a very sharp cutoff a