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Lumileds Looking Positive with LEDs for Automotive Signalling
The firm says its SignalSure LEDs set new standards for surface mount LED reliability and robustness.
Philips Lumileds has revealed its new surface mount SignalSure mid-power LEDs for automotive signalling applications.
The new LEDs are intended to be the most robust and reliable surface mount LED available to the automotive industry today and have an undergone a rigorous Multi Environment Overstress Testing (MEOST) regime.
Available in red-orange and amber colours, the company says the LEDs have passed tests exceeding today’s standards for automotive signalling LED sources.
The MEOST testing for SignalSure have been developed in conjunction with the company’s tier 1 customers and have been exposed to extreme heat, humidity, and high levels of sulphur gas.
Philips Lumileds simulates high-voltage jump start and high voltage alternator failure to ensure that the SignalSure LEDs will continue to operate without degradation in performance, quality, and light output.
“Reliability and confidence in a surface mount signalling product has been our design objective for SignalSure from the start,” said Paul Martin, Senior Director for Philips Lumileds’ mid-power automotive LEDs. “There are certainly other surface mount LEDs in use today, but it was clear that the automotive industry’s needs were not being met.”
“Only SignalSure achieves the automotive industry’s desired level of reliability for a surface mount product. No other automotive SMD product we know of goes through the extreme testing applied to our LEDs and as a result, we are delivering a superior SMD with a wide design margin for signalling applications,” he continued.
Philips Lumileds expects SignalSure to become the surface mount product of choice for a variety of applications where thin, low profile designs are preferred, including centre stop, side-marker, tail, mirror turn, rear fog, and motorcycle signalling.
