Toshiba introduces high power, high flux 90 lumen white LED

Date Announced: 08 Jul 2008 -- New White LED Approaches 100 Lumens for Lighting Applications Irvine, Calif. – Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, today announced TL12W02-D, a new high power, high brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications that can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens (lm) when driven at only 250mA. The new LED will be available from Marktech Optoelectronics, the value-added reseller for TAEC’s LED products in North America.The Toshiba TL12W02-D is a higher brightness LED, which joins the TL12W01-D, with typical flux of 40 lm at 250mA, in Toshiba’s expanding selection of high power white LEDs. In order to broaden the overall product portfolio to address different lighting requirements in the market, warm white LEDs are scheduled for release within the next few months. “The new TL12W02-D surface mount white LED is ideally suited for many residential and commercial lighting applications that have previously used incandescent lamps,” said Roger Shih, business development engineer for the optoelectronics group at TAEC. “Demand for white LEDs is increasing for general lighting applications because they offer long operating life, low power consumption and compact size compared to incandescent lamps.” With regards to production quality and expertise, “Toshiba has brought its world class manufacturing capabilities into the high power LED market and is able to provide a consistent selection of white LEDs with only a few bins,” said Steve Hubert, director of purchasing, for Marktech. “As a result, we are able to offer luminosity sorting to enable our customers to focus more attention on their application than on the LED they have selected for their design.” Marktech Optoelectronics has been an industry leader in the application and design of LEDs for more than 20 years and has been selected by TAEC to handle North American technical sales and marketing for Toshiba LEDs and Constant Current LED Drivers. The new 90 lm white LED has a low thermal resistance package that provides improved heat release characteristics, and the forward voltage for the new device is rated at 6.8V (typical) at 250mA. Its surface-mount package measures 10.5mm x 5.0mm x 2.1mm (including leads). The Toshiba family of white LED products features low power consumption, wide operating temperature range of -40°C to 100°C, compact size and long operating life, which meet the requirements for a broad range of commercial, residential and industrial applications.TL12W02-D Technical Specifications Maximum ratingsProduct Characteristics Symbol RatingForward Current IF 300mAPower Dissipation PD 2.4WJunction Temperature Tj 110oCOperating Temperature Topr -40~100oCStorage Temperature Tstg -40~100oCTL12W02-D Technical Specifications, cont. Typical Characteristics　(Ta=25oC, IF=250mA)Optical Characteristics Symbol Typ.Luminous Flux F 90 lm1Chromaticity Cx 0.32 CY 0.31Electrical CharacteristicsForward Voltage VF 6.8VThermal Resistance Rth(j-s)2 10 oC/W1113 lm (max.)2Thermal resistance from junction of LED to solder pad Pricing and AvailabilitySamples of Toshiba’s TL12W02-D will be available now, priced at $2.90 each in 10,000 piece quantities. Mass production is scheduled for July 2008. The TL12W02-D is available in the US through Marktech, Toshiba’s optoelectronic partner in the US for 23 years. For more information, please visit http://www.marktechopto.com.Toshiba’s Discrete ProductsSince 1986, Toshiba Corp. has ranked as the top discrete supplier on a worldwide basis, based on annual revenue from international shipments of total discrete products. According to the most recent annual report from market research firm Gartner Dataquest (San Jose, CA), Toshiba remained the top discrete semiconductor supplier. (Source: “2007 Worldwide Semiconductor Market Share Report,” Gartner, released April 2008). More specifically, Toshiba is a leading supplier in a number of discrete product categories, including power transistors, rectifiers and thyristors, LMOS logic, CMOS logic, photocouplers, TOSLINKs, LEDs, small signal diodes and transistors. The company’s discrete devices are designed to meet the growing demand for high-performance and lower voltages in today’s wireless telecommunications and consumer electronics applications, while emphasizing its strength in the automotive and industrial markets.*About TAEC and Toshiba Corp.Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, distributions and fabless chip companies worldwide. A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, discrete devices, displays, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, digital multimedia and imaging products, microcontrollers and wireless components that make possible today’s leading cell phones, MP3 players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics and more. Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan’s largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world’s third largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2007 WW Semiconductor Revenue, April 2008. For additional company and product information, please visit http://www.toshiba.com/taec/.Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications. In developing designs, please ensure that Toshiba products are usedwithin specified operating ranges as set forth in the most recent Toshiba product specifications and the information set forth in Toshiba’s “Handling Guide for Semiconductor Devices,” or “Toshiba Semiconductor Reliability Handbook.” This information is available at www.chips.toshiba.com, or from your TAEC representative. -###-Editors Note: Reader inquiries please publish: [email protected].

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