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...

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.”  ...

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...

Recently, a San Francisco Bay Area-based LED lighting company, Elemental LED has released a video that showcases their LED strip light and LED light bar products installed at Sloane Bar of San Francisco. Additionally, the company also provided the lighting for the bar, which included warm white LED Strip Lights underneath the bar's edge. The lights create a soft, warm glow along the entire length of the solid wood bar. While demonstrating the visual appeal and versatility of LED lighting products, the video promotes Elemental LED's project m...

The name Luzinterruptus which installed LED lighting and tiny animal figurines around the cities of Madrid and Barcelona operated by Urban artists. The project, entitled “Implanted Nature”, filled with soil and a rooting agent to add to the plants were a flock of small plastic animals including horses, sheep and cows and LED lighting. In order to respond to the lack of green spaces, they all covered by small portable domed “greenhouses” which protect from pollution and heavy rain. Fifty of the tiny green spaces were installed over five hours in one ...

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...

Highly-integrated Driver Utilizes Unique Control Method to Equalize Current Between Multiple LED Strings National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) today introduced the LM3466, a highly integrated linear LED driver that simplifies the design of high power, wide area lighting fixtures such as streetlights.  The LM3466, with just a few passive components, provides a complete system that drives each LED string from any off-the-shelf AC/DC constant-current power supply. LED drivers today often require multiple components to accurately drive a str...

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...

Lighting Science Group has announced to produce 1 million LED bulbs in the first quarter of the year.  Jim Haworth, chief executive officer of Lighting Science Group, commented that "Today, we celebrate not only past successes, but encouraging present trends, and the promise of a sustainable, job-creating, green future made possible by LED lighting solutions," said Jim Haworth, chief executive officer of Lighting Science Group. "Indicative of our company's solid growth and numerous accomplishments is that while last year we produced and sold...

Currently, Taiwan-based Genesis Photonics Inc. (GPI) has ordered TurboDisc® MaxBright™ Multi-reactor MOCVD System from Veeco. The systems will be used to increase GPI’s capacity for the production of HB LEDs being driven by applications such as backlighting, lighting, displays, and automotive. According to David Chung, Chairman and CEO of GPI, "We have been very pleased with the production proven performance of Veeco's K465i MOCVD systems already installed in our manufacturing facility. They helped us to achieve L...

Solais Lighting has been chosen for a final LED test at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. he Department of Energy will formally supervise the outcomes of the test as part of a DOE Solid State Lighting GATEWAY Demonstration Project. The testing contains  he artworks of early modernist and a painting of Thomas Hart Benton. The museum is evaluating the ability of the LED lamps whether they can distribute lights evenly on the floors and at the same time spotlighting the art. The performance is evaluated by light output, the absen...

Uniform illumination in linear and flat lighting solutions The new product family in the low-power range from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors starts with Duris E 3. The small dimensions and wide beam angle of these new LEDs make them ideal for applications that require uniform illumination. These highly efficient LEDs can be used as replacements for conventional fluorescent lamps in T5 or T8 luminaires for example. Duris E 3 has been designed specifically for applications that call for uniform distribution of light, high efficiency and low procurement costs. The main ...

Toshiba developed a new portable OLED lamp - and they will make 100 units of this lamp, and donate these to quake-hit areas (50 units were already donated to the evacuation center in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture). Toshiba has no plans to sell these to consumers. The lamps run from either four AAA alkaline batteries or from the embedded rechargeable battery - and Toshiba bundle the lamp with a solar-panel (it can also be recharged via a USB port). The lamp measure 146x100x18.5mm (at the thickest part) and weight 180g without the batteries. There are no details abou...

Reportedly, Dubai Aluminium (Dubal), one of the world's largest single-site primary aluminium smelters operator , is evaluating the feasibility of converting its lighting system to energy efficient LED lighting. According to the company’s official, “The aim is to embark on plant-wide full scale LED lighting onversion at Dubal as soon as practicable.” Dubal will ensure that all unnecessary lights are switched off after working hours, wherever applicable; and that all computers/monitors are also switched off when employees leave after a shift at the offi...