It’s reported that Sharp is introducing 6 new downlights and 5 new oblong/square energy-efficient LED fixtures for factories, offices, and commercial spaces to the Japanese market.
Sharp Corp. has developed a series of 11 new LED lights and will introduce them into the Japanese market on September 1. Four of the lights are oblong overheads with brightness equivalent to the fluorescent lamp fixtures currently in factories, offices and commercial spaces.One of the lights is a square overhead for use in conference rooms and similar spaces. The six remaining lights are circular downlights, three of which have a brightness equivalent to a standard 150W incandescent lamp.
LED lighting manufactured by Sharp will be adopted as the main lighting in all plants to be located within the company's "Manufacturing Complex for the 21st Century." This is now under construction in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, and is scheduled to begin operations by March 2010. The company says this will represent the world's largest collection of LED lighting installed in buildings on this scale.
These LED lights offer excellent heat dissipation capacity based on configuring the low-power LED in a uniformly spaced array. This arrangement minimizes deterioration in light output resulting from LED-generated heat and ensures a consistent, ample level of illumination. As a result, these units have design product life of 40,000 hours, and can be expected to remain in operation for 10 years or longer, even when lit for 10 hours per day. They are good in locations that require lights to remain on for long periods, or where lamp replacement is difficult such as high places and multi-story open spaces like stairwells and foyers.
