On June 10, 2011,, Samsung LED Co., Ltd. (“Samsung LED”) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Osram Korea Co., Ltd. (“Osram Korea”) and two other defendants at the Seoul Central District Court requesting an injunction from unauthorized use of Samsung LED’s valuable intellectual property and money damages. The defendants include Osram Korea and two companies that sell Osram’s products in Korea, Barun Electronics and Dabo Industrial System. The 8 patents-in-suit relate to LED chip and package technology used ...

Reportedly, the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Centre (ERC) led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,  has set up 21 key industrial partners including Osram Sylvania and Taiwan-based Epistar to help guide the centre’s leading-edge research programs and hasten the transition of important innovations from the lab bench to the marketplace. The ERC is led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It is dedicated to developing new LED technologies and applications for smarter, better-performing lighting devices and systems. At present, the ERC team i...

Chinese company ShineOn has released its high performance LED products including a MOZ3535 1-3W, an SOWW3014 product and a series of CoB products with integrated chip arrays at the 16th annual Guangzhou International Lighting Conference. According to the company, the MOZ3535 1-3W product is based on ShineOn's proprietary ceramic packaging platform. The device delivers more than 200 lumens of light at a cost of only fifty cents and suits for indoor and outdoor illumination, flash lights. The SOW3014 product features an SMD package with built-in hea...

For decades, OSRAM’s former slogan – “Hell wie der lichte Tag– As bright as broad daylight" has been gracing the facade of buildings at Munich's Karlsplatz roundabout. Now the light manufacturer is also represented in the underground area of this bustling city-centre square, in the form of its subsidiary OSRAM Opto Semiconductors: the challenge was to implement the lighting concept in the entrance area of the newly redesigned station (for the S-Bahn suburban network and U-Bahn city metro). Schmidt-König, planning office for light...

Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced that they entered into a patent license agreement with Cooper Industries. The license provides Cooper with full access to the Philips’ LED-related patented technologies that Philips makes available to the lighting industry through its LED Luminaire and Retrofit Bulb licensing program. “We are very pleased that Cooper has joined our licensing program. We believe having such an open and accessible license program is greatly assisting in accelerating the adoption of LED lighting and fostering the growth of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.”  ...

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...

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...

Currently, San Francisco Water, Power and Sewer kick off a city-wide project late this year to install LED fixtures to replace 18,500 high-pressure sodium street light fixtures. In contrast to the existing street lights, the new fixtures will use 50 percent less energy and will cost far less to maintain since they only have to be replaced every 15 - 20 years while the current bulbs have to be replaced every four years. The swapping out of the lighting fixtures is expected to take 30 minutes per street light with the whole project being completed in about 14 months. In addi...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation recently is announced to install a six-meter OLED globe at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan. The OLED "Geo-Cosmos" display will be unveiled at the museum as the world's first large-scale spherical OLED screen on June 11. Hanging 18 meters from the floor, the globe is an aluminum sphere covered with 10,362 OLED panels, each measuring 96 x 96 millimeters. Mitsubishi Electric used its scalable OLED technologies to create the globe, which replaces a globe comprising LE...

Lately, decided by the National Park Service, over 2700 MSi iPAR 38 LED lights will illuminate the Liberty Bell located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MSi LEDs offer many advantages such cost savings in energy and maintenance. LED lights consume far less energy and produce almost no heat meaning reduced cost for both electricity and cooling. In the situation found at the Liberty Bell Center the typical tungsten halogen light burning day and night will typically need replacement every two months. The equivalent LED light burning 24 hours a day will last u...

Philips today announced the New Zealand release of its LED (light emitting diode) range of light bulbs for the home. Delivering significant energy savings and with an exceptionally long life, LEDs are set to provide a step change in home lighting. Philips’ range of LED light bulbs use up to 80% less energy and can last up to 25 times longer than an incandescent bulb and are fully compatible with existing light fittings, making it hassle-free to make the switch.1 As well as presenting an opportunity for households to reduce their energy use, the Philips LED light b...

Reportedly, Aalberts Industries N.V. has signed an agreement with the Air Liquide group to buy out 100% of the shares of Dutch based firm Lamers High Tech Systems B.V. (Lamers) in the Netherlands subject to antitrust clearance. It’s said that since 1984, Lamers has been active in the development, engineering, manufacturing, assembling, testing and qualification of systems for control and distribution of high purity gases and chemicals. The systems are used in photolithography systems supplied to the semiconductor industry and MOCVD equipment supplied to the L...