UliLASER Once Again Wins the 2025 Imaging Industry Annual Technology Innovation Award
Recently, the 2025 Imaging Industry Annual Gala, jointly organized by the Shenzhen Camera Association and the Chaidian (TrendForce) Think Tank, concluded successfully. Industry attention once again focused on the leader in technological innovation—UliLASER. With its groundbreaking achievements in the field of precision manufacturing, UliLASER successfully clinched the "2025 Imaging Industry Annual Technology Innovation Award." This marks another significant milestone on the track of technological innovation for the company, following numerous other industry honors. This award not only represents high recognition from the organizers of UliLASER's technical prowess but also signifies that its core technology, the new AA (Active Alignment) laser soldering process, has become a key driving force powering the high-quality development of the imaging and automotive intelligence sectors.
In today's era of deep integration between smart vehicles and imaging technology, traditional manufacturing processes struggle to meet the industry's stringent demands for precision, reliability, and efficiency. UliLASER has focused on the laser soldering field for over a decade. Leveraging a solid technical foundation built upon 87 core patents and a database of over 300 material combination processes, it has innovatively and deeply integrated AA (Active Alignment) technology with the laser soldering process. This has resulted in an integrated solution that combines the dual advantages of "micron-level alignment" and "precision soldering," fundamentally redefining the manufacturing standards for precision components.
From Cameras to In-Vehicle Multi-Scenarios: Technological Breakthroughs Expand Application Boundaries
As a core manufacturing process for the imaging industry, the new AA laser soldering process first achieved disruptive breakthroughs in the camera field. Compared to traditional mechanical alignment, this process utilizes a six-axis precision platform and high-precision laser displacement sensors to control the optical axis deviation between the lens and the image sensor to within 1.5μm. This results in a 40% improvement in image center resolution and reduces edge distortion from 8% to 2%. After a leading customer adopted this process, the yield rate for its front-view camera modules jumped from 82% to 98%, and the customer complaint rate directly dropped by 60%, fully validating the practical value of the technology.
Beyond cameras, UliLASER's AA laser soldering technology is rapidly penetrating multiple core in-vehicle scenarios such as LiDAR, HUD (Head-Up Display), and automotive headlamps, breaking the application boundaries of precision soldering technology.
In LiDAR manufacturing, this process solves the sealing challenges for connecting optical components to housings. Using a non-contact soldering method, laser energy is precisely focused on the solder joints, forming a strong metallurgical bonding layer. This effectively prevents interference from external dust and moisture on the internal precision components, ensuring the ranging accuracy and stability of the LiDAR under complex road conditions. Addressing the development trend towards miniaturization and chip integration for solid-state LiDAR, its extremely small spot size of 0.1mm and positioning accuracy of ±0.005mm perfectly adapt to the soldering requirements of high-density components.
In the fields of HUD and automotive headlamps, the AA laser soldering process tackles the pain points of soldering temperature-sensitive components. Components like HUD optical lenses and mirror brackets are extremely sensitive to thermal stress. The large heat-affected zone in traditional soldering can easily cause lens deformation and optical path deviation. UliLASER's technology, through localized instantaneous heating, confines the heat-affected zone to within 0.05mm, completely avoiding performance degradation of optical components. Simultaneously, the solder joint strength is increased by over 30%, enabling it to withstand random vibrations of 5-2000Hz during vehicle operation, meeting the ISO 16750 automotive electronics standard. In LED bead soldering for automotive headlamps, the process's multi-material compatibility easily handles the connection requirements for dissimilar metals like copper, aluminum, and nickel, achieving a solder joint consistency rate of 99.7% and significantly reducing defect rates in mass production.
Technology as the Core, Creating Full-Chain Value Increment for Customers
The ultimate goal of technological innovation is to create tangible value for customers. UliLASER's new AA laser soldering process builds a core competitive advantage for customers across three dimensions—efficiency, cost, and quality—achieving full-chain value enhancement.
In terms of production efficiency, the process represents a qualitative leap. Through the integrated "AA Alignment - Laser Soldering - 3D Inspection" workflow, the soldering time per joint is compressed from 3 seconds with traditional processes to 0.8 seconds, directly increasing production capacity by 275%. Combined with automated loading/unloading and intelligent inspection systems, a single machine's daily capacity can reach 30,000 to 80,000 solder joints, which is 5 to 10 times more efficient than manual soldering iron work, perfectly meeting the demands of large-scale mass production for automotive components.
Regarding cost control, the process achieves cost reduction and efficiency improvement through yield enhancement across the entire workflow. The integration of a 3D DOI (Degree of Inspection) visual inspection system achieves a 100% defect detection rate, capable of precisely identifying tiny pores as small as 0.1mm. This reduces soldering defect rates from 1.2% to 0.05%. After a customer applied this integrated solution, the yield rate for in-vehicle cameras soared from 88% to 99.3%, significantly reducing rework costs and material waste, leading to an overall production cost reduction of over 20%. Furthermore, the process can achieve an IP67-level sealing effect without the need for additional waterproof components, further simplifying the production process and reducing material costs.
In terms of product quality and market competitiveness, the process builds a technical barrier for customers. Testing shows that products manufactured using this process can withstand extreme temperature cycling from -40°C to 85°C, endure 500 hours of salt spray testing without failure, and have a solder joint lifespan exceeding 10 years or 200,000 kilometers, far exceeding industry standards. The stable product performance helps customers seize opportunities in the wave of automotive intelligence and enhances brand premium capability. This is also the core reason why many leading enterprises choose to deepen their cooperation with UliLASER.
Winning the "2025 Imaging Industry Annual Technology Innovation Award" is another testament to UliLASER's technical strength and an affirmation of its innovative spirit by the industry. In the future, UliLASER will continue to focus on laser technology as its core, deepen its efforts in the in-vehicle intelligence and imaging fields, promote breakthroughs and the implementation of more precision manufacturing processes, and join hands with customers to embark on a new journey towards intelligent manufacturing.
