Visteon Lights The Way For GM's Technology Integration Vehicle at SAE

Visteon Lights The Way For GM's Technology Integration Vehicle at
SAE
Visteon's LED Front Lighting is industry's first road-worthy, available
application of technology 


VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., April 11  /PRNewswire/ -- Visteon Corporation
(NYSE:VC) is lighting the way for the Cadillac STS SAE 100 Technology
Integration Vehicle with the industry's first road-worthy application of LED
(light emitting diode) Front Lighting.  GM's Technology Integration Vehicle was
unveiled at the SAE World Congress, taking place at Detroit's Cobo Center from
April 11-14, 2005.

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Visteon's LED Front Lighting provides unique styling opportunities for
automakers, while delivering a durable light with extended life, reduced power
consumption and reduced space requirements.  Visteon already produces LED rear
signal lights and is the industry's first Tier I automotive supplier to
announce the development of a "road-worthy beam pattern" application of LED
front lighting.

"Visteon is pleased to work with General Motors in demonstrating this
breakthrough application of LED technology as a front-end lighting source,"
said Todd Sheppelman, Visteon's vice president and general manager of the
General Motors customer business group.  "We've focused our lighting and
electronics engineering resources to bring our customers a technology that is
functional and offers styling flexibility to help them differentiate their
vehicles."

LED technology has been available to vehicle designers for rear signal light
applications for nearly a decade.  Moving them to the front of the vehicle is a
greater engineering challenge because of the many light sources that must be
arranged and focused to provide necessary nighttime and inclement-weather
visibility.  Visteon's expertise in lighting, electronics and underhood thermal
management resulted in a new approach to this challenge. This new approach
includes unique optics and a new method of light source placement to direct the
white light into a beam pattern that meets federal requirements for automotive
front lighting.  In addition, LEDs need to be thermally managed for heat
dissipation to withstand engine-compartment temperatures.  LEDs also require
precise electronic current control over their operating range.  Visteon's
ability to focus its range of automotive engineering expertise addressed these
challenges and, based on automotive production schedules, is capable of
bringing this scaleable-light-output, production-ready technology to the
automotive market in a matter of months.

An LED is a compact, solid-state semiconductor device that converts electrical
energy into light.  The LED elements are associated with specialized optics to
create a beam pattern for high beam, low beam, daytime running lamps, or fog
lamps that meet federal requirements.  While LED front lighting can be
customized to complement traditional Halogen or HID/Xenon lighting, Visteon's
LED Front Lighting demonstration lamps are comprised entirely of LED
technology.  LED-based headlamps offer several advantages to revolutionize
automotive lighting.  These advantages include flexibility in design, improved
packaging, reduced power consumption and long life.  LED front lights are up to
55-percent thinner than their non-LED counterparts, thus opening up space in
the engine compartment or in the grille to add styling options.

Since LED lights don't use a single light source but rather several sources
combined to achieve the required beam pattern, designers have the opportunity
to arrange light sources and provide a unique differentiating appearance.  This
includes the possibility of placing LEDs to create different daytime and
nighttime "faces" for a vehicle.

Visteon Corporation is a leading full-service supplier that delivers
consumer-driven technology solutions to automotive manufacturers worldwide and
through multiple channels within the global automotive aftermarket.  Visteon
has about 70,000 employees and a global delivery system of more than 200
technical, manufacturing, sales and service facilities located in 25 countries.


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DATASOURCE: Visteon Corporation



CONTACT:  Robin Pannecouk, [phone],  , or

Jim Fisher, [phone],  , both of Visteon

Corporation



Web site:  http://www.visteon.com/ 

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