Automotive drivetrain supplier Dana has inaugurated a new axle production facility in Toledo, Ohio, at the site that was initially home to Willys-Overland Motors, which had developed the original Jeep. The 300,000 sq. ft. facility was ...
Tags: Jeep Wrangler, Jeep
Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
Tags: LEDs, LED Efficiency
AKHAN Semiconductor Inc of Gurnee, IL, USA, which specializes in the fabrication and application of lab-grown, electronics-grade diamond, says that the Japan Patent Office has issued it patent JP6195831 (B2) covering a method for the ...
Working with scientists in Texas and Warsaw, researchers at Finland’s Aalto University have made a breakthrough in revising methods largely discarded 15 years ago (‘Amphoteric Be in GaN: Experimental Evidence for Switching ...
Tags: GaN Power electronics
Topas Advanced Polymers and Polyplastics claim that discrete layers of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) significantly improve the performance in three- and five-layer packaging film structures made of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE). ...
Tags: LLDPE Packaging, Packaging
German automotive parts supplier Continental has agreed to acquire Israeli start-up Argus Cyber Security for an undisclosed amount. Post the acquisition, Argus Cyber Security will be part of Continental’s subsidiary Elektrobit (EB). ...
Tags: automotive parts
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York has granted its motion for a preliminary injunction against SGL Carbon LLC, a ...
Tags: MOCVD, Epitaxial process equipment
Ricoh will launch a new material for its SLS RICOH AM S5500P 3D printer at formnext. The company is claimed to be first to develop polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) for SLS machine. PBT has high strength property and is a heat resistant ...
Tags: Ricoh, 3D Printer
NPD has declared the Spin Master and Nickelodeon property the hottest toy property of last month as Sea Patrol continues to hit sales high notes. PAW Patrol has been named the number one toy property for the month of September, according ...
Tags: Spin Master, Toy
After narrowly missing out on entering IHS Markit’s top 10 for 2016 and first-quarter 2017, Nationstar (whose primary markets are lighting and signage) has broken into the top-10 ranking for packaged LED firms for Q2/2017, according ...
Tags: LED market, Packaged LED
Funrise Toys has been appointed as global master toy partner for the pre-school show. Saban Brands has detailed the UK launch strategy for the first line of toys inspired by pre-school property, Cirque du Soleil Junior – Luna ...
Tags: Funrise Toys, Toys
Nitride Semiconductor Co Ltd of Tokushima, Japan has filed a patent infringement lawsuit with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota against Digi-Key Corp (trading as Digi-Key Electronics), which sells ultraviolet ...
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has filed a lawsuit, together with its affiliate Seoul Viosys Co Ltd, in the US District Court for the Central District of California asserting that Archipelago Lighting Inc is selling ...
Tags: LED bulb, LED packaging
Last month saw Acamar strengthen its toy partnership with Fisher-Price, in a bid to grow its licensed Bing offering. Here, execs from the two firm's detail why the property lends itself to role-play toys. Expansion into new international ...
Patent Portfolios--6th in the Semiconductor-Manufacturing Sector and 24th Overall Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator ...
Tags: Semiconductor, pending patents