In what Jo Ann has called “business as usual” in the LED market, 911Ep Inc. of St. Cloud Minnesota, USA has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against four companies over the use of its LED technology for emergency lighting products.
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Lite-On Technologies Projects LED Revenue of NT$ 10 Billion (US $ 322.5 million) for 2005
Lite-On Technologies of Taipei, Taiwan projects sales of their LEDs to reach NT$ 10 billion (US $ 322.5 million), according to a Taipei Times news article. H. H. Lin, the company’s executive and CEO said that the much of the revenue improvement will come from sale of infrared diodes.
Nichia Projects 30% Growth in LED Sales Before 2009
Nichia Corp. has created a four-year plan that targets LED sales of 210 billion yen (US$1.94 billion) in the year through December 2008, an increase of 30% from the 2004 business year, according to a Nikkeinet News article.
TIR Granted Solid State Lighting Patent
TIR Systems of Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, has been granted the first of their 40 filed patent applications for solid state lighting. The US patent, #6,871,983, is for general illumination and covers the use of their proprietary LED-based lighting technology for grid ceilings.
New Prototype For UV LED Water Purification Tested
A new team of engineers and researchers from Campbell, Ohio USA have focused on UV-LED water purification with some promising results. OHT, LLC, an Ohio startup company, has designed and developed a novel prototype which allows a flow of water to be treated by the 16 MEmocvd AIGaN/GaN LED chips, …
Lumileds Reaches New Milestone In Single-Package Brightness
Lumileds Lighting of San Jose, California has reached another milestone in terms of brightness of a single package with their production of new Luxeon III emitters with up to 190 lumens in one package. The new red, red-orange and amber LEDs pump out record-breaking typical lumens per package of 110 …
Toshiba to Mass Produce New White LEDs
Toshiba American Electric of Irvine, California USA, introduced a new white LED for home or office, decorative interior lighting in stores and LCD backlighting. The LED boasts 60 lumens at 500 mA (2 Watts). The company will ship samples in July and will start mass production in October with initial …
IEK Predicts 16% Increase in LED Production From Taiwan in 2005
According to a recent report by the Industrial and Economics Knowledge Center (IEK) of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) located in Hsin Chu, Taiwan, Taiwan’s LED production value will likely grow by 16% in 2005 despite patent infringement lawsuits for white LED technology and some signs of blue LED oversupply.
LRC Industry Group, ASSIST, Distributes Guidlines for LED Lifetimes
An LRC industry group called the Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST), has distributed guidelines for reporting LED life. ASSIST, which was organized by the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, hopes their LED life-time measurement guidlines will give standards making bodies a starting point on …
Agilent Optimizes InGaAs LED Technology for High Speed IR Emitters
Agilent Technology Inc. of Palo Alto, California USA has introduced a new high speed LED infrared (IR) emitter that offers radiant power up to 180 mW/sr. The new emitter, from Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group, is targeted as a higher performance, cost-saving device in consumer and industrial products. Its compound semi …
