Driven by the wave of automotive intelligence, In-car Display PVD coating have evolved from single instrument panels to core hubs integrating smart cockpits, autonomous driving interactions, and audio-visual entertainment. The market for in-car displays continues to expand, with increasing demand for large-sized and curved screens becoming the mainstream trend. In this context, traditional vacuum optical coating equipment is gradually revealing bottlenecks in meeting the demands for optical performance and production efficiency, making it difficult to satisfy the market’s requirements for high-quality in-car displays.
No.1 Industry Challenges: Four Technical Bottlenecks Constraining Smart Cockpit Upgrades
Low Production Efficiency: Traditional equipment has long production cycles and low automation levels, affecting production efficiency.
Poor Stability: Traditional equipment has unstable refractive index control and poor film thickness precision, making it difficult to stably complete the deposition of complex film systems such as multi-layer optical films, filters, and long-pass filters.
Low Hardness: The film layers produced by traditional equipment lack sufficient hardness, making it difficult to meet the high scratch resistance requirements of in-car central control screens, leading to surface wear and scratches that affect product appearance and functionality.
No.2 In-car Display PVD coating Solution – Zhenhua Vacuum SOM-2550 Large-scale Plane Optical Coating In-Line Coater
Equipment Advantages:
1.Fast Cycle Time, High Production Efficiency, Achieving Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement
The SOM-2550 Optical Coating In-Line Coater has a high degree of automation, reducing manual intervention and significantly improving production efficiency and stability. Compared to traditional optical coating equipment, the SOM-2550 has a significantly shortened production cycle, meeting the needs of large-scale production and ensuring product consistency and efficiency.
2.Visible Light Transmittance Up to 99%, Superior Display Performance
In the application of in-car center display, display performance is particularly critical, especially in intelligent and high-end vehicle configurations, where screen brightness and clarity directly impact user experience. The coating technology used in the SOM-2550 can achieve up to 99% visible light transmittance, ensuring brighter and clearer screen display. Whether under strong light or other complex lighting conditions, it maintains excellent display performance, avoiding reflections and color differences.
3.Ultra-Hard AR + AF, Hardness Up to 9H
In-car Display PVD coating and touch panels are subject to frequent friction and contact during daily use, requiring extremely high surface hardness. The SOM-2550 Optical Coating In-Line Coater is equipped with ultra-hard anti-reflective (AR) and anti-fingerprint (AF) coating technology, with hardness up to 9H, far exceeding the hardness standards of general displays. This not only effectively resists scratches, protecting the screen surface from damage, but also significantly reduces fingerprint marks, keeping the screen clean and clear, extending its lifespan, and enhancing user experience.
4.Stable Equipment Performance:
Precise film thickness control, with stable deposition rates per second, ensuring each layer is precisely controlled, guaranteeing production stability.
5.Capable of Coating Various/Multi-Layer Precision Optical Films: Such as AR films, AS/AF films, high-reflective films, etc.
Application Scope: Mainly producing AR/NCVM+DLC+AF, intelligent rear view mirror, in-car display/touch screen cover glass, cameras, ultra-hard AR, IR-CUT filters, facial recognition, and other products.
——This article is released by vacuum coating equipment manufacturer Zhenhua Vacuum.
Post time: Mar-14-2025