Resources from gizmag.com show that Osram Sylvania has intended to release its 100 W-replacement LED light bulb, joining its Sylvania Ultra series: a 20 W, 1600 lumen light bulb with a warm, "incandescenty" color appearance of 2700 K. Osram Sylvania claims its LED light bulb boasts omni-directional output, though none of the manufacturers has produced data to quantify this to our knowledge (which it is possible to do). It’s estimated that Osram Sylvania's 20 W Ultra should hit shelves between June and September this year....

Reportedly, LG Electronics Inc. has teamed up with its component-making unit LG Innotek Co. to file a complaint with the U.S. trade watchdog last month seeking to block German auto parts maker Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. and Automotive Lighting from selling vehicle parts comprised of lighting products made by Osram AG, which the Korean companies allege infringe their patents.   An official  of the Korean company pointed out that  "LG already filed a complaint with the U.S. ITC (International Trade Commission) against Osram for violati...

Lately, Osram has made two breakthroughs on OLED. One breakthrough is that, testing under application-oriented conditions in an integrating sphere, the company has achieved 87 lm/W with its OLED in the lab. In contrast to the previous achieved peak value, this efficacy is about 40 percent higher or nearly the efficiency of fluorescent lamps. And the OLED was measured at a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 and a color temperature of approximately 4,000 K. The company also achieved almost 75 Im/W at a brightness of 5,000 cd/m2 in another test. It has already tested the org...

Osram had not seen Samsung’s complaint yet and did not know its specific content which has been issued in Korea. According to a spokesperson, Osram is well prepared regarding possible steps by Samsung and is therefore relaxed about the move by the counter claimant. Osram regards Samsung’s move as a typical counter attack of a defendant. Anticipating this move Osram had analyzed Samsung’s patent portfolio thoroughly before taking any legal actions and concluded that none of Samsung’s IP will cause a problem for any of OSRAM’s products. Osra...

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...

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...

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.

OSRAM SYLVANIA and Lowe’s have offered an expanded selection of SYLVANIA ULTRA LED light bulbs after their introduction of the brightest LED A-Line light bulbs. Products arrive by July 2011 in all Lowe’s stores nationwide and on Lowes.com. Expanded line of LED bulbs contains more than 16 new product offerings fit for indoor and outdoor. It matches the color temperature of most incandescent bulbs and lasts up to 25 times longer. According to the 2010 SYLVANIA Socket Survey, 75 percent of Americans think color quality is im...

Overview   Organized by LEDinside, LEDforum China of International Market Trend and Lighting Applications will be grandly open in Shenzhen on May 27, 2011.   LEDforum 2011 will focus on the market trend of LED lighting application, and the agenda speakers include top leaders from Aixtron, Epilight, Macroblock, Osram, Philips Lumileds, Seoul Semiconductor, Veeco and other industry giants. These industry heavy weights will share with us their unique industry perspectives and accurate market forecasts, including market dynamics, business strateg...

Two European companies including Germany’s Osram and Legrand are preparing for investment in Turkey. Martin Goetzeler , Chief Executive of Osram disclosed that Osram was thinking about investing LED technology in Turkey. Osram’s global revenue reached EUR 4.7 billion in 2010 and its sales in Turkey increased twofold in the last four years. In addition, it was the second fastest growing country last year and this year it targets a more than 6 percent growth. As for Legrand, it also considered investing a research, development and production facility t...