Business News Briefs for Monday, March 6
FlashlightNews.org - 03/06/2006
TOKUSHIMA, Japan. -- "Nichia Corporation announced today that Nichia alerted a Taiwanese LED manufacturer HARVATEK CORPORATION of its infringement on Nichiafs design patent (Taiwanese Patent Certificate No.089,036) by a warning letter."
nichia.com
TAIWAN -- "Taiwan-based LED maker Epistar Thursday claimed it is settling a patent dispute with Japan-based market leader Nichia in a "peaceful way," according to today's Chinese-language Economic Daily News."
digitimes.com
IRVINE, Ca. - "SureFire will leverage Service Connect to provide the interface between its Web site store front and Epicor Vantage 8.0, the industry's first manufacturing solution based on a 100-percent SOA and optimized for high performance and collaboration across the globally expanding supply chain."
thomasnet.com
DURHAM, NC. - "Cree, Inc., a leader in LED solid-state lighting components, announced general availability of the industry's highest efficacy white power LEDs at 350 mA. Cree's white XLamp® 7090 power LED package achieves a typical efficacy of 47 lumens per watt at a drive current of 350 mA, and 57 lumens of typical light output."
lightboard.com
CAMBRIDGE, Ma. -- "The MIT team's new lithium battery contains manganese and nickel, which are cheaper than cobalt. Lithium ions carry the battery's charge, so to maximize the speed at which the battery can charge and discharge, the researchers designed and synthesized a material with a very ordered crystalline structure, allowing lithium ions to freely flow between the metal layers."
gizmag.com