Not only visibility but also design is the most important item for blinkers as aftermarket parts.
While the slim type of the current product has penetrated the market, development has started in search of a new product with high design that incorporates technological progress while inheriting the concept of "All in One" installation.

(I am writing this article) I was also involved in the design, but it is not easy to think of a design that is compatible with our popular fenderless kits and reflectors.

These NG proposals are just a few. In reality, quite a few designs flew around. The idea itself is endless, but when the words "strength" and "cost" are mixed, the range becomes extremely narrow. The immediate challenge was to boil "realistic and fresh products" in countless roughs.

The blinker must meet the safety standards of road transportation vehicles, that is, it must be compliant with vehicle inspection. The rear turn signal must have a light emitting area of ​​7 cm² or more when viewed from the rear (excluding products that have acquired the E mark).
Even with the fenderless kit installed, this is cleared, and it matches the concept, and secures an affordable price and rigidity ... (worry)

After many studies, it was finished like this.

The light emitting area has a number angle of 45 ° and secures 7.99 cm2 on one side. The shape is quite compact by making the parts other than the light emitting part as small as possible, such as incorporating a diode that is normally placed on the board into the wiring. (Refer to the figure on the left below) In
addition, the inside is finished with a simple appearance by shot processing instead of the conventional lens cut.

Regarding the color of the lens, prepare samples with different "color density" and "shot intensity" as shown in the upper right photo, and select the one with the best texture and transparency by actually emitting light. The material is hard and highly transparent polycarbonate resin (same as the current product).

And the biggest point in this product is the evolution of LED chips.
"Reflect light with lens cut" In order to increase the amount of light compared to the current product, we adopted a method of "illuminating the entire lens surface" by increasing the number of chips.

Although LEDs have high brightness, they are linear light, so it is necessary to devise a chip arrangement to make them shine evenly anywhere in the lens.
The biggest problem here was waste heat treatment. If the LED chips are densely packed, heat will accumulate in the chips and resistors and the resistance value will not be stable. To overcome this, we decided to use a special resistor that is particularly resistant to heat, rather than a general resistor.

In addition, the waterproof potting that enhances the resistance of the board is devised so that the processing time can be shortened by applying a lot of lightening to the board.

After a long development period of 5 years, we were finally able to sell it.

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