Osram Opto files against Nichia

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Osram Opto files against Nichia Osram Opto Semiconductors

Miinchen

(Regensburg,

Munich).

Germany)

filed two intellectual

has

property

Japan, and its US

and German subsidiariesA patent infringement

Japan and

Corporation

the US District

Court for the

Eastern District Pennsylvania.

in

of

In addition, a util-

ity model infringement has been brought Nichia Chemical

lawsuit

against

Nichia Corporation,

and 6,245,259

Japan, and

Europe

GmbH in the Landgericht

technology

homogeneous

suits, Osram is seeking an

light, e.g. white light.The

injunction

nology was developed

property

and

297 24 382.9 relating to basic

has been filed against the Nichia America

6,066,861

in Germany With these lawto put a stop to the

infringement

the United States Patents Nos. the German Utility Model No.

lawsuit

Nichia Corporation,

Court of

The lawsuits seek to enforce

lawsuits against the Nichia Corporation,

(District

for the manufacture

of its intellectual

rights with immediate

The subjects

chip white LEDs.

of the intellectual

rights are a wave-

single LED chip.

position

In its complaints,

light emitting

as well as a related

that Nichia has infringed and is infringing

technology

for the industrial of mixed light

Conference

Cree, Inc. (Durham,

NC, USA) introduced

XBright

At 900 x 900 microns, XBright

the LED

Power Chip is signifi-

Semiconductors.

devices emit

of 250 mW at 350

commercially

with a typical brightness

chips in the market. Since

XBright

900 Power Chip product ly includes

of

ed application

target-

10 times the light output

devices is the specialty ing marketThe

light-

company devices

targeted

has with

to ramp

shortly.

an ultraviolet

fami405

nm device with a typical

our standard XBright believe

President

and

of

Nichia doubles white LED output

chips, we

these high power LED

devices will enable

Nichia Corp., announced

a new

range of lighting applications.” The XBright

Chuck Swoboda,

available power

these chips deliver more than

for these

of the XBright

by the company.The

Chip sets a new standard for

mA, and a 470 nm blue device

begun sampling

LED chip offered

Dr. Ruediger

devicesThese

production

technology

to use our technology”,

selling and offering for sale cer-

cantly larger than industry

area version

licence

tain white LEDs in the US and

standard (300 x 300 microns) LED chips and is the first large

which neither

holds nor has applied for a

Mueller, CEO of Osram Opto

150 mW at 350 mA.The

900 Power Chip LED.

gy by a company

emitting single chip LED

brightness

In Light

Nichia, we intend to prevent

commented

Cree larger area LEDs At the Strategies

claims

the illegal use of our technolo-

semiconductor which is a basic

manufacture

company

“With our lawsuits against

casting com-

component,

rights by importing,

1995

and 1997.The

property

property

between

it was the first to market single

length converting

these intellectual

of Osram Opt0

Semiconductors

sation of damages.

semiconductor

Osmm alleges

tech-

by

effect and is claiming compen-

of mixed colour light emitting devices using a

employees

mixed colour

Power Chip prod-

uct is an offshoot

of a collabo-

development

white LEDs achieving intensity

the

of surface-mount luminous

50% higher than cur-

rent parts.

CEO of Cree said, “This is a

rative R&D effort between

tremendous

Cree and the US DOE, National

The increased

and for the industry. We

Energy Technology

results from a more efficient

believe

(NETL).

milestone

for Cree

that our new Power

Laboratory

conversion emitted

brightness

of electricity

to

white light, making

the part ideal for backlighting of full-colour

Microsemi reveals LED strategy Microsemi launched

(Irvine, CA, USA) its new UPBLED470A

UltraBright

blue LEDs, while

the company’s Powermite

packaging,

LED will be available for Nichia’s NSCW2 15 series, a side view surface-mount improved

die from Cree.

patented

These two conventional

LEDs

mm in height.

Optomite

ing strategy for next-generation

die from Cree, a combination

are the first in what will

LED products, including light

that allows higher power

become

engine architectures

in a smaller SMT package.They

of high-power,

join Microsemi’s

first LED, the

blue and white LEDs from

targeted

blue MegaBright

UPBLED47OB

Microsemi.

2002.

and a

LED on silicon

technology.

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2002

LED.The

NSCW2 15 emits 600

mcd of light and is only 1 .O

called

and GaN-based

in

mobile

First samples for the new white

that also is based on GaN

of

LCD screens

powered

devices.

revealing its systems engineer-

breakthrough

Ill-k

They have a derivative

battery

a wider product

Engineering line

high-brightness

samples

will

be available in this quarter; volume production

is

for Q2 of calendar