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This SAE Standard provides test procedures, performance requirements, design guidelines, and installation guidelines for snowmobile tail (rear position) lamp.
Snowmobile Technical Committee
This SAE Standard provides test procedures, performance requirements, design guidelines, and installation guidelines for snowmobile stop lamp.
Snowmobile Technical Committee
This SAE Recommended Practice is intended as a guide toward standard practice and is subject to change to keep pace with experience and technical advances. This document establishes additional performance requirements specifically for road illumination devices using light emitting diode (LED) sources.
Road Illumination Devices Standards Committee
This SAE Standard provides test procedures and performance requirements for off-highway vehicle headlamps.
Special Purpose Vehicle Committee
This SAE Recommended Practice provides test procedures, performance requirements, and guidelines for cleaners intended for use on motor vehicles.
Road Illumination Devices Standards Committee
This SAE Recommended Practice provides test procedures, requirements, and guidelines for side turn signal lamps intended for use on vehicles 12 m or more in overall length, except pole trailers. Side turn signal lamps conforming to the requirements of this document may be used on other large vehicles such as trucks, truck tractors, buses, and other applications where this type of lighting device is desirable. It is not intended for use on shorter vehicles due to the higher intensity requirements of SAE J2039 compared to the SAE J914 devices.
Heavy Duty Lighting Standards Committee
This specification is a general level subsystem light source specification that establishes test requirements of light emitting diode (LED) components and modules for use in automotive lighting systems. The completed test data from this test specification is intended to be provided to the OEM by the Tier 1 lamp set maker as part of the lamp assembly PPAP. Re-testing shall be required if any portion of the approved LED module experiences a design, manufacturing, or component change. This document shall be applied to systems that meet the requirements for design, performance, and validation established by government standards. The LED module is defined as the LED devices and any electronics required to properly energize the LEDs using a vehicle electrical power system along with any associated electrical wiring, connectors, and thermal management system. Samples shall be tested as a subsystem and considered one test sample for the entire test sequence. A failure of any component in the test sample shall constitute a failure of the entire sample. NOTE: If other manufacturers’ components are intended to be approved for use in the LED modules, then those possible combinations of components shall be considered a new LED module and shall also be tested. Additional testing may be required by individual OEMs to meet specific EMC, quality, reliability, and durability objectives. The following tests are to be performed under the following conditions: New sample. Design or process change made to an existing module. Completion of one calendar year as noted in the annual tests table shown in Appendix E. (Note: Production process control data, collected at a shorter interval per an approved control plan, may be substituted if approved by customer’s responsible engineer and purchasing representative.)
USCAR
This specification establishes the requirements and test procedures for automotive miniature bulb retention devices, including wedge base sockets with integral connectors, direct wire wedge base sockets, bayonet base sockets with integral connectors, direct wire bayonet base sockets, wedge base and bayonet base sockets with circuit plate assemblies, and associated interfaces. Tests shall follow the sequence shown in the flow charts in Appendices E and F whenever the following occurs: New design. Design, material, or process change made to an existing device, which could affect the outcome of the test. The test sequences shown in Appendix G shall be run annually.
USCAR
This SAE Recommended Practice pertains to electrical systems of motorcycles both with and without batteries.
Motorcycle Technical Steering Committee
This SAE Standard provides test procedures, performance requirements, design guidelines, and installation guidelines for front fog lamps.
Road Illumination Devices Standards Committee
This SAE Standard defines and provides a means for the control of colors employed in motor vehicle external lighting equipment, including lamps and reflex reflectors. The document applies to the overall effective color of light emitted by the device in any given direction, and not to the color of the light from a small area of the lens. It does not apply to pilot, indicator, or tell-tale lights.
Lighting Standard Practices Committee
Influence of Background Spectral Distribution on Perceptions of Discomfort Glare2020-01-06374/14/2020
The advent of light-emitting diode (LED) technology for automotive lighting allows flexibility of the spectral distribution of forward headlighting systems, while meeting current requirements for “white” illumination. As vehicle headlights have become whiter (with more short-wavelength light output) over the past several decades, their potential impacts on visual discomfort for oncoming and preceding drivers have been hotly debated. It is known that a greater proportion of short-wavelength energy increases discomfort glare, and that increasing the background light level (e.g., through roadway lighting) will decrease perceptions of discomfort. More recently it has been demonstrated that the visual system exhibits enhanced short-wavelength sensitivity for perceptions of scene brightness. As a result, roads illuminated by light sources with higher correlated color temperatures (CCTs) will be judged as appearing to be brighter than those illuminated to the same light level by sources with lower CCTs. The present laboratory study was conducted to identify whether the increased scene brightness of a road illuminated with greater short-wavelength light helps to mitigate discomfort glare more than the same scene illuminated to the same light level, but with less short-wavelength light. The results indicate that the spectral distribution of the background plays little role in the degree to which it lessens discomfort glare. The implications of these results for vehicle and road lighting practices are discussed.
Nagare, Rohan M.Bullough, John D.
This SAE Standard provides test procedures, requirements, and guidelines for reflex reflectors.
Vehicle lighting has become more demanding with different load requirements, strict Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) requirements, accuracy requirements, and power consumption requirements. These requirements are all under the constraint of ever shrinking PCB’s driving up the cost of PCB real estate. Pulse width modulation (PWM) is used to control the interior and exterior lighting in vehicles and meet all these requirements. One or more electronic control units in the body domain of a vehicle contain a number of integrated circuits that drive loads using PWM signals. In addition to driving loads, PWM signals are used for things such as dimming and diagnostic functions. In current technology the PWM signal is usually composed of a trapezoidal wave or rounded wave which control bulbs and light emitting diodes (LED) loads in a vehicle. The trapezoidal or rounded wave may not be the most efficient way to meet requirements in the automotive industry due to their sharp rising edges so different methods have been developed to improve functionality and reduce cost. Using PWM with sine wave control could be an improvement over the current technology. This study looks at two integrated circuits that use each control method, the rounded wave and the sine wave. Both control methods are studied with the same PCB layout and environmental conditions then compared through testing such as radiated emissions testing and thermal testing. The comparison is used to determine which method is more beneficial for use in controlling automotive lighting. Other methods in recent literature are also reviewed along with future outlooks on controlling lighting loads in the automotive industry.
Bseileh, Mouhamed
A Study on the Method to Manage the Weight and Cost of a Vehicle by Adjusting the Parameters of Styling Profile2018-01-10254/3/2018
Since the fuel efficiency of vehicle has become one of the big issues due to environmental pollution problems, many studies have been conducted on various methods such as improving powertrain performance and aerodynamic performance, reducing the weight of the vehicle and so on. There have been many new attempts to reduce weight but mostly about improving material property. In the case of vehicles sharing the same platform, the weight and cost of vehicle are mainly changed by the exterior styling. But, there is no solution to control the exterior styling in terms of the weight and cost of vehicle, yet. The purpose of this study is to find the way to save the weight and cost of vehicle while achieving the various performance and requirements of vehicle (safety, aerodynamics, driver’s visibility and so on) from exterior styling point of view. We focused on the weight difference of the vehicles that shared the platform and were same overall dimensions. We analyzed vehicle’s components that make up the exterior design and classified them by materials. Because each part is different in material and has a different specific gravity, depending on how large area each part occupies in the exterior design, the exterior styling can affect the total weight of vehicle. Then we found correlations between weight, cost and styling and parameters to control these. Also in order to consider the performance and requirements of vehicle, the relationship between styling parameters and those was analyzed. From the results, the method is proposed to control the weight and cost of vehicle by managing the total area of exterior surface and the area ratio of parts in the styling. In the future, this approach will be available for the exterior design optimization.
Shin, HyunsuKim, TaeheeKwon, JunghoonLee, Dae HungLee, Myunghun
This document is a tool for the certifying authority, cockpit designers, instrument suppliers, lighting suppliers, and component suppliers. It is an aid to understanding and meeting relavant regulatory requirements, particularly those relating to pilot compartment view {CFR 25.773(a)(2)} and instrument lights {25.1381(a)(2)} for glare arising from visible eletromagnetic radiation.
A-20A Crew Station Lighting Committee
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