What is the role of connectors in LED smart lighting?

The 20th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition not only attracted many lighting manufacturers, but also gathered many lighting accessories companies. TEConnectivity(” TE “), a global leader in connectivity, is one of them. What is the relevance of TE products to the lighting industry? What role do connectors play in the lighting industry? What can they bring to the LED lighting industry? To this end, OFweek spoke with Mr. Jiang Hongtao, Lighting Product Manager, Asia Pacific region, TE Industry Department, during The Light Asia Fair. “People are connected by intangible feelings, and industrial interconnection requires reliable contact, through close connections between machinery and machinery or machinery and non-machinery.” Mr. Jiang Hongtao vividly depicted the important role of connectors in industrial production at the beginning of the interview. Traditional lamps and lanterns need a switch to control the light switch. However, with the development of society and technological evolution, the requirements of smart home are constantly improving, and intelligent lighting comes into being: Open the door of the moment, through the way of induction or interconnection, the ground light automatically lit, and through infrared sensor, temperature sensor, sound sensor and other sensors signal control, so that people’s home life more convenient, fast, comfortable, but also make life more intelligent, energy-saving, humanized. According to xiaobao, the connector produced by TE, which focuses on interconnection and connection, plays a key role in intelligent lighting. Jiang Hongtao said, “As long as it relates to power control and signal control of intelligent buildings, TE is closely connected. In the interconnected world of intelligent lighting, connectors are indispensable.” A few days ago, the government advocates the establishment of environment-friendly society, the energy-saving and environment-friendly development of lighting lamps and lanterns become the future mainstream trend. As a new generation of energy saving light source, LED lighting has a bright future. With the gradual withdrawal of traditional incandescent lamps from the lamps market, the tape lighting manufacturer is expanding and technology upgrading is accelerating. It is understood that LED packaging will become smaller and smaller. LED chip manufacturers also feedback that LED products are becoming smaller and smaller, but the lumen is getting bigger and the power is getting bigger and bigger. This Jiang Hongtao pointed out that if the light bulb in the connection is not reliable, connection of the contact resistance will be bigger, fever will more, heat of unit area becomes larger, the temperature will be rising, potential safety hazard is very large, and the reliability of the TE by providing efficient connector, let the light bulb in the parts connected closely, so as to improve heat dissipation, let LED products connection is more reliable in performance. “LED lamps and lanterns heat itself is a” double-edged sword “, the greater the heat is more brightness, at the same time, the greater the potential safety hazard caused by without a good cooling system, so the impact of not just lights, are more likely to cause explosion danger, so safe and reliable connector is very important for lighting. He further emphasized, “in LED lamps, heat dissipation is a system, the radiator is attached to the surface, if the product itself uneven will lead to heat dissipation problems, and our products are improved from the source in accordance with the standard, from the flatness of the product, reflective surface design to reduce the safety risks of heat dissipation. “Connector makes LED lamps use more safe and reliable in the past, the role of household lamps is often relatively single, only need a lamp to light up a room or even the whole family, and there is no high requirement for heat dissipation. But with the development of home decoration, lamps and lanterns have assumed more and more lighting and beautification functions in home life, the heat of lamps and lanterns is too big to spread out in time is very dangerous, “TE connector is the most important thing is to do safe and reliable. We not only guarantee that product quality is safe, but also provide reliable safety control. After identifying the safety level requirements of customers, design the connector to make LED lighting fixtures fit better with the connector. “He introduced. Xiaobian believes that the thickness of LED lamps is becoming thinner and thinner, and the requirements for connectors are becoming higher and higher. For connector manufacturers, how to ensure safety and reliability under such a premise is the top priority in the future development!