Plastic lightguides find applications in many industries especially where source must be located some distance from where it must light up an icon or button. For many years we have been designing lightguides for the automotive and network communications industries, bringing our modelling skills and optical knowledge to bear on tricky design problems.

The Electronic Climate Control (ECC) in most cars is now lit by a combination of standard filament lamps and LEDs. Designers often encounter problems when trying to reconcile the electro-mechanical requirements with the lighting specification. Colour matching across the main dashboard often leads to difficulties, this is especially true when using a mixture of light sources such as LCD, LED and filament lamps.

Network hubs use multiple surface mount LEDs to indicate the status of the device or signal strength. The LEDs are usually mounted on a board that is perpendicular to the display surface. Multiple lightguides can be used to capture and turn the light through 90° so that more expensive manufacturing techniques can be avoided.

Consultantnet can draw on considerable experience to help you solve your problems.