OSRAM has filed legal actions against Samsung group companies and LG group companies in the US and Germany as well as against an LG group company in Japan. Based on its conviction that these companies, respectively, infringe fundamental patent rights, OSRAM will also file a suit against LG in China tomorrow. With this move OSRAM intends to enforce its patents on Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology.

Lighting Science Group has teamed up with Dixon Technologies to jointly tap into India LED lighting market. Dixon Technologies will play as Lighting Science Group’s exclusive distributor of its high performance LED bulbs, fixtures and infrastructure products in India's 1.8 billion dollar lighting market. With Dixon's established and extensive network in India, Lighting Science Group will help the subcontinent meet its rapidly growing energy and infrastructure demands. Dixon Technologies' distribution network features 11 branch offices, in ...

The City of Sarasota has placed a second order for an additional 245 LED lights, including the Aimed Optics™ LED fixtures produced by Sunovia's lighting division EvoLucia® Inc. EvoLucia is also supplying decorative post-top lanterns manufactured by Beacon Products. Early in May, Sarasota has chosen Sunovia Energy Technologies' award-winning LED energy-efficient lights to reduce their energy consumption and enhance the downtown and tourist areas for its city-wide energy savings project. The city will benefit from Sunovia's energy-saving...

Chinese-based LED maker SunSun Lighting Holdings Asia Ltd. is said to receive $10 million from the Beijing-based venture capital investor GSR Ventures to commercialize its energy-efficient products.   In February, the company has developed a 9-watt LED bulb to replace standard, 60-watt incandescent bulbs. Currently, it is building a manufacturing plant that will be able to produce 30 million LED bulbs a year. And its manufacturing facility in Changzhou produces more than 10 million bulbs a year. Sonny Wu, GSR’s founder and a managing director, s...

Cooper Lighting’s two products, the McGraw-Edison Ventus™ LED Area Luminaire and the Metalux OpticaHP High Performance Parabolic Series, have been chosen as 2010 Product of the Year winners in the Lighting category by Plant Engineering. The McGraw-Edison Ventus™ LED Area Luminaire took the Silver award, and the Metalux OpticaHP High Performance Parabolic Series took the Bronze award. Utilizing patent-pending modular LightBAR™ technology, the McGraw-Edison Ventus LED Area Luminaire is able to deliver applic...

Reportedly, The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded another $14.8 million in funding for development projects aimed at advancing solid-state lighting technologies. Major recipients of the new awards include Veeco, the India-headquartered manufacturing giant Moser Baer Technologies, Cree and Philips Lumileds. Veeco will receive $4 million and its project focuses on the introduction of an aluminum nitride layer into the LED epiwafer structure, to act as a buffer between the light-emitting layers of the device and a silicon substrate. Moser Baer will get $2....

LG Electronics has officially launched a new super-slim monitor called the Super LED. The marketing campaign that led to the official launch included a “SUPER” performance to publicise the technology of the SUPER LED Monitor. The Korean electronics manufacturer sponsored a performance by popular Korean pop duo group Norazo, known for their experimental and often innovative performances. The performance was live synched and broadcast on the world’s largest LED screen. The recording has just clocked over 1 million viewon YouTube. (www.youtu...

Panasonic Electric Works is to display its “ECOOL” high thermal conductive glass composite circuit board materials at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (June 9-11, 2011) and the LED Lighting Taiwan exposition (June 14-16, 2011). From the commencement of sales in April 2009, “ECOOL” has continuously expanded the sales for use in high thermal radiation circuit board applications including LED lighting and backlights. Now we intend to actively engage in global sales promotions of ECOOL products with the particular aim o...

A new EUROPE solar streetlight will be showcased by Spanish company Eurener, which based on LED technology and powered by the sun. The system features high-capacity light, long life and low power consumption. The new calculation system has been devised to adapt Eurener’s system in all variations (solar streetlights and bus shelters, lighting autonomous houses) to any geographical area in the world covering the specific needs of the user. The customer can get a customized installation of the product in terms of the specific terrain and weather conditions. ...

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, will join experts from industry and academia in presenting papers on the latest developments and the future trends in power electronics at The Power Conversion, Intelligent Motion (PCIM) Asia Conference to be held in Shanghai from June 21-23, 2011. PCIM Asia is widely recognized as the most important conference in China on power electronics. “A breadth of topics will be addressed at this year’s conference such as, power electronics compo...

Philips Lighting has launched Philips Fortimo LED Strip system, a new module and driver for OEMs to start tackling general lighting and explicit areas where fluorescent is central. The Philips Fortimo LED Strip system consists of LED pcb modules of 280mm (630Lm) convoyed by a programmable Xitanium 75w driver in T5 shaped linear housing, which is fully dimmable and compatible with DALI controls, such as the Philips ActiLume system....

Three California companies including Soraa Inc. and Cree Inc., both in Goleta, along with Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. in San Jose have received $4.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate the deployment of high-efficiency LED lighting.   Among the awards, Soraa will receive $678,000 to develop LEDs that generate more light with greater efficiency. Cree will be given $1.6 million to research high-output, warm-white LEDs. Philips, receiving almost $2 million, will investigate high-voltage, low-current LED designs. The DOE inves...

Molex Incorporated  released the Flexi-Mate™ Connector System.  Designed to address the backlighting needs of LED TVs, as well as room lighting applications, the Molex Flexi-Mate Connector System is the industry’s first solution to provide a full range of both board-to-board and wire-to-board connectivity.  “The industry trend toward the use of LEDs in TVs and standard room lighting are driving demand for next-generation connector innovations.  The Flexi-Mate Connector System offers OEMs and designers a total complement ...

Acuity Brands has become one of the first luminaire manufacturers to attain expanded accreditation from the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (“NVLAP”) for testing of LED products for conformance to the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (“IESNA”) LM-79 standard. NVLAP is administered by the National Institute of Science and Technology (“NIST”) and evaluates the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. NVLAP's accreditation programs are established in respons...

Lately, the Department of Energy (DOE) has released May 2011 Lighting Facts Product Snapshot of LED replacement lamps, which aims to help lighting retailers, distributors, designers, utilities, and energy efficiency program sponsors understand the current state of the LED replacement lamp market and its trajectory. The report uses verified performance data from the Lighting Facts product list, which now has nearly 1,000 LED replacement lamps registered, to compare their performance to standard technologies and the new performance levels mandated by the Energy Inde...

The U.S. delegation headed by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu (PhD) visited the Optogan LED production plant in St. Petersburg. Nobel Laureate Steven Chu (PhD) is a recognized expert in the development of energy efficient technologies. The aim of the official visit of the US delegation to Russia was to become acquainted with Russian industry innovation and to search for possible ways to implement joint projects in energy and energy efficiency. Mutual projects were discussed within the Working Group on Energy and Environment - a bilateral...

The Liberty Bell, Symbol of America’s Freedom and Independence, Gleams Under the Glow of MSi’s Super Efficient LED’s. The National Park Service has chosen the super efficient MSi iPAR 38 LED lights to illuminate the Liberty Bell in Downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2003 the bell was moved into the new Liberty Bell Center, a glass and steel pavilion that allows it to be viewed by the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This new setting is perfectly suited for the kind of efficient, bright and long burning light provided b...

                                                          -The innovative LED driver making traditional bulbs obsolete- GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that their latest, innovative GlacialPower LED driver is now bund...

Due to greater consumer interest in electricity conservation stimulates the market, prices of LED lights are plummeting in Japan. An okohama-based chain of home appliance stores, Nojima Corp. has released its own line of LED lights that until the end of August will be priced at 980 yen each--less than half the average market price. Industry observers estimated that LED prices will likely continue to fall with strong demand. And LED manufacturers have scaled up production to meet the demand. Panasonic is said to increase production in Indonesia and China in rec...

Industry Veteran Detailed How Property Owners and Facility Managers Can Gain Control of Lighting Energy Use and Expenditures With State-of-the-Art Technology   During the recent “Advanced Lighting Solutions” web cast, Terry Mocherniak, co-founder and chief operating officer of Encelium Technologies, detailed how property owners and facility managers can achieve maximum energy efficiency through state-of-the-art lighting control technology. The webinar was hosted by CoR Advisors.   “Although lighting is typically one of the large...

The Housing Authority in Hong Kong has scheduled to replace fluorescent lamps in the corridors of public housing estates with LED lighting. Several issues including the price, plus the fact it does not function properly in hot weather, and the repair problem need to be considered. Housing Department chief manager Ho Wing-ip said tests are being done in various housing units to see which brand is most suitable. In addition to the tests in public housing, the authority will also spend HK$270 million to improve the transformers in lamps, replacing the electromagnetic bala...

Lately, Siemens has filed a lawsuit with Samsung and LG in Germany and the United States, claiming the two companies infringed on Siemens’s patented LED lighting technology.   The technology transforms blue light into white light, a feature used in some flat-panel televisions and increasingly in common household LED light bulbs.   The German lawsuit was filed in Hamburg. In the United States, Siemens filed its complaints with the International Trade Commission in Washington and in United States District Court in Wilmington, Del. Siemens s...

Reportedly, a Chinese based firm who is new to the LED industry has placed an order totaling $460.4 million from GT Solar for sapphire crystallization furnaces.  It is GT’s largest single order to date. According to Tom Gutierrez, GT Solar’s president and CEO, “Our customer is a well established, diversified manufacturing company located in China who is new to the LED industry. We are pleased that they have selected our advanced sapphire growth technology for their new sapphire production facility.”  ...

Due to increasing demand for LED lighting in Japan along with appreciation of Japanese yen, Taiwanese LED manufacturers are expected to receive purchase orders from Japan. For instance, OEM manufacturers, such as Delta and Cal-Comp Electronics can immediately benefit from these Japanese orders. Ledtech, China Electric, Unity Opto, and Lite-On Technology are also potential beneficiaries to receive orders. Additionally, the upstream LED manufacturers, including Epistar, Genesis Photonics, and Everlight can also benefit from current market development.

Hirose Electric USA has released a multifunctional connector system, which provides wire-to-board, board-to-board joint and short-circuit sockets. The DF59 Series connector requires a small connector, small DC motor drives and power supplies. The connector's low-mated height at 2.5mm and its overall size of 8 x 9mm is used in narrowly-mounted LEDs. According to Rick van Weezel, Hirose's vice president of sales and marketing, the DF59 offers system designers ultimate flexibility and carries the company’s unique “swing lock” design. Moreove...

It’s reported that the city of OWOSSO is under the investigation of the opportunity of using energy grant funds to install LED lights in some or all of the decorative street lamps downtown. The city received three different types of LED lights that workers installed on Washington Street, between Main and Exchange streets to explore the possibility. The city is seeking comment from the community on which lights, if any, are preferred. it is also seeking to inform the public of the benefits of energy efficient lighting. High upfront costs and the lack of know...

TDK Corp recently has released the structure of the see-through OLED panel which started mass production in March 2011. The see-through OLED panel features a passive-matrix type and has a screen size of 2.4 inches. Its pixel count is 240 x 320 (QVGA). It can display color images. The brightness and transmittance of the new see-through OLED panel are 150cd/m2 and 40%, respectively.   TDK used metal electrodes as negative electrodes so that the company's proven manufacturing technologies can be used to start volume production as soon as possible. Then...

Reportedly,  Philips Lumileds and Future Electronics have expanded new five-year agreement builds on the decade long relationship that has enabled the development of solid-state lighting solutions worldwide. Steve Barlow, Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Philips Lumileds, said that “Future Lighting Solutions has proven over the last decade that with LUXEON LEDs, highly trained LED solution engineers, and the core services of a global solutions provider, they are well positioned to support and enable the growing number of companies that w...

Currently, Japanese conglomerate Mitsui Group has made a $3.5 million investment on LED lighting control developer Redwood Systems which computerized direct current lighting control systems aimed at improving energy efficiency. The system is capable of gathering data on things like temperature and room occupancy with sensors or motion detection cameras. That data can then be used to adjust lighting under the system's control. The system can also be set on a schedule via a Web-based platform. It uses servers to supply electricity to light fixtures via Ethernet cables usi...

It’s said that Hawaii Energy has developed a partnership with Toshiba on providing an opportunity to qualifying Hawaii small Businesses and nonprofit organizations to receive free, energy efficient LED lamps at no cost. This offer will be available while supplies last. Participants must agree to install the LED lamps prior to June 30, 2011. Through participation in Hawaii Energy’s Lighting the Future offering, participants will be able to see first-hand the energy and cost savings available through the use of LED lighting. Hawaii Energy is a rate...