xmedia - Seoul Semiconductor develops top able Acriche of 80lm/W

Store this angel in big sizeSeoul, Korea, February 5, 2008 – Seoul Semiconductor, one of the world’s arch manufacturers, appear today the development of a top able adaptation of Acriche, the world’s aboriginal AC-driven semiconductor lighting source, which appearance accuracy of 80lm/W. Started accumulation assembly in November 2006, Seoul Semiconductor clearly placed Acriche, the world’s aboriginal semiconductor lighting antecedent that can be apprenticed anon from the AC ability outlets after the charge for an AC/DC converter, for acquirement back the additional division of 2007. At the time of the announcement, it was alone 40lm/W but added to 60lm/W in September 2007 and currently bigger its achievement to 80lm/W. In addition, with accustomed the CE Marking and German TUV certification, Seoul Semiconductor is assured accretion appeal of Acriche worldwide. The lifespan of DC-driven LED awash in the bazaar has been accepted as 50,000 to 100,000 hours about there was a ample birthmark in technology if in actuality activated it to lighting fixture. AC/DC advocate is bare to appropriately and bigger use in the lighting accoutrement but it lasts about 20,000 hours. Not alone has the AC/DC advocate the aloft defect, there are several added problems: 1) An access in amount to absorb on AC/DC converter, 2) charge added amplitude for converter, 3) there are difficulties in amplitude and thermal amusement architecture in lighting if replacing accepted ball or architecture anatomy with LEDs, 4) advocate decay abstracts could cause ambiance pollution, 5) 80% ability of advocate causes 20% of electricity loss, 6) in case of application AC/DC advocate in baby or amid across the calefaction from LED and advocate alternation can accrue massive calefaction causing a abridgement in lifespan, 7) overheating can could cause a blaze affair which will crave assurance plans. Invention and accumulation assembly of Acriche assuredly accompany up the band-aid to the abounding problems of AC/DC converter. Acriche has been beneath able than DC LEDs and it has been difficult for barter to use it due to the abridgement of ability of this new technology. However, its assurance was accustomed through accepting the CE appearance and TUV acceptance in November, 2007, and with this accomplishment of a new Acriche technology featuring the cool accuracy of 80 lumens per watt, it acquainted out to be about as ablaze as accepted DC LEDs. The arch of Seoul Semiconductor’s R&D center, Sang Min Lee cited “Acriche has been developed alone for a few years, which is abundant beneath than the 20 years of history of DC LEDs. That is to say, it is a anew developed “Young Technology” which has a abundant abeyant to grow. Furthermore, Seoul Semiconductor has been invested tens of millions of Dollars alone in analysis and development and over 100 actor Dollars in developing accumulation assembly technology of Acriche. This allows over hundreds of patents of Seoul Semiconductor to be registered all about the apple to altogether defended its own technologies.” Seoul Semiconductor has been dedicating to advance the LED chips, amount apparatus of LED products. For this, added than a hundred of R&D associates accept been developing and researching LED chips and allied with UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara) area the apple celebrated scientists such as Shuji Nakamura who auspiciously developed Blue LED accumulation assembly technology for the aboriginal time in the apple are arch studies for 5 years. In addition, Seoul Semiconductor has put their assets into developing LED bales cooperatively with abounding cardinal partners. As a result, it has 1,400 own patents as of December, 2007, and additionally acquired about 300 patents and licenses by purchasing them or M&A. These patents and licenses anniversary for about 10 percent of the absolute LED-related patents filed throughout the world, which enables Seoul Semiconductor to be the all-around baton in LED industry

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Seoul Semiconductor
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About Seoul Semiconductor
Seoul Semiconductor, the world's arch LED manufacturer, has been called to Forbes and Business Week's lists as one of the a lot of able Asian companies. Its product, Acriche, was called as "Product of the Year 2006" by Elektronik, one of the a lot of celebrated electronics magazines in Europe. Seoul Semiconductor's primary business areas are LED packaging and custom bore manufacturing. It provides a abounding ambit of LED articles including AC-driven semiconductor ablaze source, Acriche, High-brightness Power, Side View, Top, Chip, Lamp and High Flux LEDs, and custom blazon modules. Applications for the company's LED articles cover accepted lighting, signage, aback lighting for adaptable phones, TVs, anthology computers, automotive lighting, home appliances, signals, etc. Seoul Semiconductor appear US$200 actor in sales in 2006. It has 1,443 patents and 264 licenses including 619 across patents and licenses as of Dec, 2007. Seoul Semiconductor has 18 branches including 3 across accumulated offices. Its articles are aswell represented common by added than 90 distributors.