Technology niche and patent layout of crystal electric high efficiency LED filament lamp

LED lighting industry has more and more manufacturers to enter the niche market and special market, in order to get rid of the general lighting market price war situation. Not only have plants lighting, medical and shipping, intelligent lighting products come out, efficient LED tube also gradually replace the traditional low price LED tube. Use a large amount of decorative lamp market, but also because the LED components of the mature technology and market development, produce a series of changes: due to the traders, distributors and lighting designers of LED filament lamp favored, hot filament LED lighting products structure and industry ecology better sell, gradually replaced the earlier low watt the number of specifications of LED bulb, and a large amount of heat of the old LED candle lamp, become visibility off fast in recent years the star product LED.

Decorative lamp demand explosion, led LED filament lamp Market take-off

Churches, commercial spaces, restaurants, hotels use LED candle lights and decorative lighting, you can see traces of LED filament lamps, LED filament lamp expansion speed is evident. They are more popular with designers, consumers and owners than traditional LED bulbs or previous generation LED candle lights in styling, brightness uniformity, space aesthetics, and retro sense.

With the LED chip prices down, in 2015, it was possible to foresee the market potential of LED filament lamps. To 2016, around the market purchase of LED filament lamp can be used to describe the outbreak, as long as the flux in the LED filament lamp below 450lm, will have the opportunity to get the channel industry buy in large quantities, can also be used to replace decorative lamp.

Balance of patent and technology

EPISTAR is the earlier layout of LED filament lamp manufacturers. As early as 2007, the distribution of crystalline electricity through the relevant patents. Director Lu Hongyuan and director Lin Ziyuan LEDinside interview crystal electric marketing center, from their cooperation with the industry experience and try to get into the LED filament lamp, learn more about the filament lamp industry trends and intellectual property layout.

Director Lin Ziyuan said, LED crystal electric filament lamp has a complete chip patent and patent related parts of the structure, and through authorized patent manufacturers to different markets, increase the competitiveness of the crystal electric LED chip customers.

(left: Lu Hongyuan, director of marketing center; right: Director of marketing center, Lin Ziyuan.)

Crystal in China's market partners are mostly LED packaging manufacturers, but also in the local production, export LED bulb manufacturers. These manufacturers in the production of incandescent bulb has started early, rich production experience, and this has certain traditional technology and production capacity of manufacturers, in the glass bulb based LED filament lamp market plays a very important role, through cooperation with the crystal electric in the industrial division of labor, to further expand the business opportunities.

Technically, Lin said the director, with LED filament generally small LED chip with 12mA 30mA current drive to drive a low quantity of heat, the life of the product will increase, pitch (pitch) will follow the smaller. On a LED filament, there are about 25 such small chips, a decorative LED filament lamp, there are hundreds of LED chips. And to make or replace or close to the general lighting LED filament lamp, the use of LED chip consumption will be more, this is what the LED industry is now pleased to see.

LED hot filament lamp in the European market, and mature markets are focused on the price and quality, attach great importance to patent intellectual property, EPISTAR also can therefore play its patent value added advantage, provide LED filament chip patent to lighting partners. When the chip is applied to LED filament lamp, quality and appearance is more prominent in the international market, is expected to boost the traders and buyers acceptance of products.

Lu Hongyuan director pointed out that, crystal electricity is now actively helping customers in the European and American markets, not only from the technical point of view, in product marketing also put a lot of efforts to improve the patent LED filament lamp market visibility. EPISTAR and partner needs to replace a considerable orders in the past two years to the LED filament lamp from the North American market decorative lamp, candle lamp, crystal lamp, art lamp, customer for product purchasing patent protection is relatively secure, without fear of goods because of patent issues influence.

LED filament lamp's next battleground - commercial space and general lighting

LED LED core filament filament lamp in the early by artificial spot expensive market acceptance is not high. In the existing LED filament lamp production process, more manual demand, the cost is still higher than the general LED bulb; if you can improve the degree of automation, the cost will have a chance to decline. When the industry develops and imports automatic spot welding equipment, the overall cost is expected to be further reduced. Crystal electric observation, the cost can be accepted, and finally to the terminal price and balance as the premise, when LED lighting manufacturers in high wattage LED filament lamp more LED filament, whether to show the frosted glass appearance, or change the internal heat dissipation mechanism, can do better than the current decoration LED filament lamp better. Crystal is expected, when the LED filament lamp costs continue to decline, the market size is expected to further expand.

At the same time, the filament lamp industry including LED crystal electric and partners, is actively developing more suitable technology, let LED filament lamp has the hundreds of tiny LED chip has more different play space, and improve product durability and life expectancy, this is a good news for the purchase and application end.

In fact, the market is also very fond of round bulb, retro style bulb, which makes LED manufacturers in