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LED Lighting Provides Endless Opportunities for Creativity

2012/01/04 | By Michelle Hsu

The emerging field of LED lighting provides suppliers with infinite opportunities for creativity, and despite the industry's uncertain short-term prospects, new products with innovative designs are hitting the market one after another.

Following up on the success of his “Non-soldering Connection in LED Module,” which won the Gold Medal Award presented by the organizers of the Taipei International Invention Show & Technomart 2010 (INST 2010), Wu Chien-chan, a consultant to the DIY LED Lighting Co., introduced more new LED lighting products in 2011.

One of those products, a DIY LED floral light made with 6W LED bulbs, allows consumers to assemble the LED floral bulbs themselves precisely the way they want. The light can be also mixed with real or artificial flowers to present unique types of decoration.

  

“An LED lighting product is in fact composed of three parts: driver, illumination, and heat-dispersion,” explained Wu. “Since the three parts are integrated in most LED lighting, consumers usually discard the entire product once any part of it goes bad. This is a kind of waste.” To address this shortcoming, Wu makes his LED lighting products by assembling the parts separately, so that each part is replaceable. This way, he said, “We make our LED lighting even more eco-friendly.”

  

IST's LED tube compatible to traditional socket
After years of technical cooperation with Sanyo Taiwan, Innovative & Superior Technology Inc. (IST) has launched a new LED tube compatible with traditional table lamp fixtures. “This will help avoid the waste of discarded lamps on one hand,” said the company's president, Chen I-yi, “and inspire consumers to replace their table lamps with highly energy-efficient LED tubes on the other.”

Innovative & Superior Technology Inc. (IST) has launched a new LED tube that is compatible with traditional table-lamp fixtures.
Innovative & Superior Technology Inc. (IST) has launched a new LED tube that is compatible with traditional table-lamp fixtures.

Chen cited statistics compiled by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) in saying that there are a total of 7.9 million households in Taiwan and that each household uses an average of 1.9 table lamps, meaning that 15 million table lamps are in use on the island. “The recycling of all those lighting products can cause serious problems,” said Chen, who went on to state his belief that his company has provided an effective solution to the problems.

IST's new LED tube, launched only in November, has won patents for the compatibility of its E27 socket with traditional lamp fixtures, and for the rotating tube which can be adjusted through 335 degrees.

The LED table lamps developed with SANYO would be for domestic sales only. Meanwhile, the company has launched several models of its own and will debut them at the Tokyo lighting show to be held in January 2012.

ADO's LED mimics natural lighting
ADO Optotronics Corp., which started out in the lighting business by assembling cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs), has diversified into the LED field and introduced in 2011 a new model which, it claims, outperforms other LED lights in terms of color temperature rendition.

ADO’s LED lights have excellent color temperature and rendition performance.
ADO’s LED lights have excellent color temperature and rendition performance.

With strong background in optoelectronics, ADO is committed to producing lighting products with a natural lighting tinge. Its new lighting fixture is also claimed to be highly efficient in terms of heat conduction.

With the heat dispersion problem gradually being resolved, LED lighting will soon expand its market by utilizing its unique advantages of power efficiency and color rendering. Based on its years of experience in LED back module production, ADO is confident that it has the technology to make its LED products perform like the natural lighting.

Faced with the weakening of market demand in the U.S. and Europe, ADO has adjusted its marketing strategy to put more emphasis on emerging markets. It started shipping to Latin America, Russia, and Japan this year, and plans to expand its market development efforts to new markets in India, Burma, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian countries. The goal is to boost the ratio of domestic sales to exports from 2:1 in 2011 to around 2:3 in 2012.

Shinyu reports breakthrough in LED technology
The new Shinyu Light Co., established in February 2010, has made several technological breakthroughs in the 10-150W factory LED lamps that it launched in 2011, which are claimed to have highly efficient heat dispersion and to emit no UV (ultraviolet) rays. With a height that is easily adjustable by users themselves, these lamps have broad application in such places as streets, tunnels, bridges, parks, gardens, and shopping centers, in addition to factories.

  

Shinyu’s new factory LED lamp is claimed to have highly efficient heat dispersion and to emit no UV (ultraviolet) rays.
Shinyu’s new factory LED lamp is claimed to have highly efficient heat dispersion and to emit no UV (ultraviolet) rays.

With continuous efforts to improve its LED lighting, Shinyu has developed multi-chip packing (MCP) technology, highly efficient heat-dispersing boards, and silicic acid boron lenses, all of which have been patented. Compared to traditional single-chip packing, MCP allows the processing of a broader area, simplified processing process, thinner packaging, less soldering, higher reliability, and lower heat resistance.

  

Just Power's multi-functional emergency light
Just Power Integrated Technology, Inc. has launched several new emergency light models with enhanced functions this year.

Just Power’s emergency light combines common illumination and emergency functions.
Just Power’s emergency light combines common illumination and emergency functions.

A vital feature of the new emergency lights is that they can be used as common illumination products most of the time, with switching to emergency mode when necessary, thus eliminating the need to buy separate emergency lights. This multi-functional design has won patents in Taiwan, China, Germany, and Japan.

  

“Traditionally, consumers have to prepare emergency lights in addition to ordinary lighting for daily use,” said Yang Ching-nan, president of the company. “A combination of the two kinds of lights can save cost and storage space.” When the electricity fails, the emergency light can provide illumination for two to two and a half hours.

  

The new emergency light offers several other advantages as well, such as remote control, adjustable brightness, and an anti-theft alarm. At the same time, it can be used as a common light, with no need for special wiring.

  

XTG launches optical-grade lighting products
The Xing Tai Guang Co. develops innovative lighting products, using reflective optical technology, which are claimed to have precision as high as that of optical products. The company controls the technology for every part of the products to ensure quality.

Reflective optical technology assures high precision in Xing Tai Guang’s lighting products.
Reflective optical technology assures high precision in Xing Tai Guang’s lighting products.

The XTG optical energy-saving lamp, for example, is assembled with parts all of which are produced by the company itself, from the light sources, key electronic ballast parts, and reflectors to the external lighting fixtures. The product's lighting efficiency is claimed to be as high as 105LM/W, while its power-transfer efficiency reaches 90% with a high-power factor of up to 98%.

Xing Tai Guang is very careful to assure quality in the selection of its materials. Its lighting shells are made with nano-coating technology to prevent oxidation and leave the reflector surface free of dust or corrosion.