Industry's First Application of Surface Light Source Technology in Front Module
Thickness Reduced by 40%, Brightness Increased 5 Times
CEO Moon Hyuksoo: "Trillion-Won Growth in Vehicle Lighting Business by 2030"
LG Innotek announced on the 15th that its vehicle lighting module 'Nexlide A+' has received the 'CES 2025 Innovation Award' from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in the United States.
Each year, before the opening of CES held in early January, CTA selects products and services from participating companies that stand out in terms of technology, aesthetics, and innovation, and awards the Innovation Award.
The 'Nexlide A+' that won the CES Innovation Award this time is one of the products in LG Innotek's vehicle lighting specialized brand 'Nexlide' series. It has attracted market attention by applying a surface light source to the vehicle front lighting module for the first time in the industry. A surface light source refers to a light source that emits light uniformly across the entire surface, unlike a typical point-type light source. LG Innotek has secured more than 700 patents for surface light source technology, demonstrating its technological capabilities.
'Nexlide A+' applies LG Innotek's proprietary surface light source technology, which is its strength in producing bright and even light with just one module without additional parts. With fewer parts, the module thickness is 40% slimmer compared to existing products. This not only allows efficient space utilization but also increases the freedom of vehicle design. Additionally, by applying high heat-resistant resin coating and film technology, heat dissipation performance has been significantly improved. The brightness has also been increased about fivefold compared to existing rear lighting products, meeting the global regulatory standard of 500 candela (cd, a unit indicating the brightness of a light source) for daytime running lights.
Vehicle lighting modules, including 'Nexlide A+', are a core axis leading LG Innotek's mobility parts business along with sensing and communication components. So far, LG Innotek has been involved in over 140 projects with domestic and international automobile brands, with cumulative orders exceeding 150. It has recorded an average annual sales growth rate of 47% over the past 10 years.
LG Innotek plans to expand its lineup of front lighting modules in the future. The company also plans to develop 'pixel lighting' technology, which repeatedly arranges small three-dimensional lights, by next year. Through this, the company expects to enable communication between drivers and drivers (V2V) and between drivers and pedestrians (V2P).
Moon Hyuk-soo, CEO of LG Innotek, said, "LG Innotek is strengthening its position in the global market as a 'total solution provider' for future mobility parts," adding, "We will grow the vehicle lighting module business into a trillion-won scale by 2030 by leading with innovative products that provide differentiated customer value."
Meanwhile, LG Innotek plans to showcase a large number of differentiated products, including the vehicle lighting module 'Nexlide A+' and the autonomous driving sensing component 'LiDAR,' at CES 2025, which will be held in January next year.
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