LED patent dispute is now Audi and BMW

LED patent dispute is now Audi and BMW

Of the patent dispute over so-called pseudo-white LEDs from Osram on the one hand and its Korean competitors Samsung and LG on the other side are in Korea now, vehicle manufacturers Audi and BMW hit. The group companies LG Electronics and LG Innotek had applied in July at the South Korean antitrust authorities a comprehensive import ban on products with the controversial Osram LEDs, reports now include the Korea Times. Let us try now to reach a complete ban imports of cars from Audi and BMW, therefore, an LG spokesman said on Wednesday: So would the two car makers while other destinations of legal struggle, but am still focusing Osram. LG will expand the patent litigation against the Siemens subsidiary to other countries.


He has shown at the IAA in September except Concept Audi A2 LED headlights and a revolving band of light.
Image: heise Cars / Archives The car manufacturers use LEDs that emit white light, increasing for car headlights. Although, according to Automobilwoche the Bavarian Motor Works have sold last year in Korea just 19 000 cars, and Audi came up with only 8000 vehicles, but LED lights are partly due to its energy efficiency as a growth market - such as a battery-light for electric cars. White LEDs are currently most in demand in the booming flat-panel displays. Osram had sued Samsung and LG in June in Germany and the USA, and LG in China and Japan for patent infringement, whereupon the two Korean companies each in turn sued Osram.

In contrast to halogen lamps with LED-based car headlamps promise a better illumination of the road, they are less dazzle and a more pleasing color temperature than xenon light, and they are considered more durable and more energy efficient than these two popular technologies headlights. Also allow LEDs more creative freedom, both in the form of lamps and lighting design itself: Available as a smooth transition between low and high beam light and an automatic adjustment of the beam to the left or right movement are due on or switching off certain lights . With the Concept A2] Audi revealed at the IAA 2011, a drawn around the whole body light bar with different signaling functions.