- Automotive Lighting Module 'Nexlide' won 146 cumulative orders
and its annual average sales grew 47%
- "The thickness to be thinner, and the light to be brighter and
more even"…Freedom of Design and Power Efficiency 'Boosted'
- 'Pixel Lighting' supports V2V & V2P Communication…"aiming
to complete development by next year."
SEOUL, South Korea,
May 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On the
16th, LG Innotek (CEO Moon, Hyuksoo) announced that it will
accelerate its targeting of the global automotive lighting module
market with 'Nexlide (Next Lighting Device)' to commemorate the
10-year anniversary of its commercialization this year.
For a long period of time, automotive lighting remained a simple
lighting device that assists drivers in safely operating a vehicle
by providing clear visibility and delivering signals.
Automotive lighting has begun to receive renewed attention, with
premium car manufacturers focusing on brand differentiation through
the design of elegant automotive exteriors.
- Automotive Lighting Module 'Nexlide' won 146 cumulative
orders and its annual average sales grew 47%
LG Innotek's automotive flexible 3D lighting module, 'Nexlide'
is rated as a next-generation vehicle lighting solution in line
with aforementioned trend of future mobility, receiving interest
from global car makers.
'Nexlide' can be freely applied to various areas of a vehicle
such as daytime running lights, RCL (Rear Combination Lamp,
including tail lights, stoplights, and turning lights), etc.
LG Innotek unveiled a total of 9 line-ups, starting with the
mass production of 'Nexlide-A' in 2014
and concluding with 'Nexlide-M', which was
successfully developed last year and recently commenced mass
production. 'Nexlide' is installed on 88 car models of 9 car
manufacturer brands around the world, including North America, Europe, Japan, China,
and Korea, and can be seen on roads in all corners of the
globe.
'Nexlide' showed a sharp growth in annual average sales of 47%
for the past decade, and was reborn as the major product of LG
Innotek's electronic components business. The cumulative orders
'Nexlide' won last month was a staggering 146 orders.
- "The thickness to be thinner, and the light brighter and
more even"…Freedom of Design and Power Efficiency
'Boosted'
'Nexlide' is produced by attaching multiple light source
packages, optical resin, which is a material that bands flexibly,
and high-performance & highly reliable optical films applied
with LG Innotek's proprietary optical micro pattern technology on a
thin substrate. LG Innotek has secured exclusive technologies
related to 'Nexlide' by acquiring over 200 technology patents.
Before 'Nexlide' was developed, to realize a surface light
source (light source in which the surface lights up evenly and has
no thickness), parts such as 'Inner Lense,' which enables light to
spread evenly on a point light source, had to be used.
However, with LG Innotek's patented technology, more than 20% of
the number of parts that needed to be added were reduced. The
secret behind slimming the module was these technologies. The
slimmer the module, the more efficient the spatial utilization was,
and the greater the degree of design freedom in car design.
In the case of 'Nexlide-M,' the latest model, LG Innotek
introduced a new engineering method that completely eliminated air
gaps and successfully slimmed the module by 30% compared to
existing products.
Another strength and advantage of 'Nexlide' is the improved
brightness of the vehicle lights while the thickness is minimized.
'Nexlide-M' increased the brightness by 4 times compared to
existing products, and can emit lights up to 500cd(candela, a unit
representing the brightness of a light source), which meets the
global legal standard for DRLs (Daytime Running Lights).
While achieving the highest level of brightness in the industry,
customers can now customize the color and brightness according to
the purpose and installation location of the lighting by utilizing
the diverse line-up of 'Nexlide.'
Another advantage of using 'Nexlide' is that it can help reduce
electric consumption. Nexlide can produce sufficient brightness
with low electric power even as the module brightness increases.
Especially in the case of EVs (Electric Vehicles), since it can
reduce the electricity mileage (fuel efficiency of EVs), the added
value of 'Nexlide' is enhanced in the future mobility
era.
- 'Pixel Lighting' supporting V2V & V2P
Communication…"aiming to complete development by next
year"
In the recent automobile market, there is a trend to expand the
role of vehicle lights compared to the past. For example, lights
are now being used to facilitate communication between drivers
(V2V) and drivers and pedestrians (V2P) by installing lights on the
vehicle grill, or indicating the driving condition of an autonomous
vehicle with specific colors.
In line with such trends, LG Innotek aims to complete the
development of pixel lighting (lighting design that repeatedly
arranges small 3D lights) that can display various phrases and
animation effects by 2025.
In addition to this, the company is planning to expand its
customer base to middle and low-priced EV OEMs by developing the
'Next-Generation Nexlide' which has enhanced energy efficiency.
Byaeng kuk Yoo, the head of the electronic component business
division and executive director of LG Innotek said 'LG Innotek has
proven its capabilities in the vehicle lighting module business
through the 'Nexlide' product for the past decade." He added, "We
will introduce new products to provide differentiated customer
values and foster the vehicle lighting module into a business worth
billions of Dollars.
Meanwhile, according to Reports Insights, a global market
survey agency, the size of the global automotive lighting market is
21.9 billion USD as of 2022, and is
forecasted to grow to 32.1 billion
USD by 2030.
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