Toyoda Gosei and Lumileds signed the LED agreement

The company Lumileds Lighting subsidiary Japan LED manufacturer Toyoda Gosei and Philips Electronics Company has signed a LED patent allows both parties concerned. Philips Lumileds company holds an important patent high brightness red LED and high power blue LED, Toyoda Gosei holds several patent blue LED. By eliminating their respective patent issues, the agreement will allow Toyoda Gosei and Lumileds to give more freedom in their development. Through the study of two companies, the agreement is expected to achieve new developments in LED technology, including the acceleration of LED brightness research.

Toyoda Gosei and Lumileds said they are willing to maintain friendly relations and will develop more excellent high brightness LED and further expand the LED market share through the company's competition. Lumileds and Toyoda Gosei company is a cross licensing agreement with Japan Nichia corporation.

About Philips Lumileds Philips Lumileds Lighting Lighting high power LED is the world's leading manufacturers, but also for daily use, including automotive lighting, camera flash, LCD monitors and TV, portable lighting, projection and general lighting and other fields, founder of development of solid-state lighting solutions. The company's patented Luxeon power source technology to take the lead in the traditional lighting brightness and LED compact size, long life and other advantages combined. Lumileds annual output of up to billions of LED, and provides core LED materials and LED packaging. Lumileds is a joint venture between Agilent Technologies and PHILPS lighting, headquartered in San Jose, California, with branch offices in Holland, Malaysia and Japan, with sales offices around the world. About Royal Philips Electronics Holland Royal Philips Electronics Company in the world and is Europe's largest electronics company, sales of 30 billion 300 million euros in 2004. With 159709 employees in more than 60 countries.

About Toyoda Gosei Toyoda company was founded in 1949, Toyoda Gosei company in 1986 to start the research and development of LED and in 1991 successfully developed the world's first gallium nitride based Blu ray LED Gosei. The company's optoelectronics business has been growing and growing, Toyoda Gosei is a leader in the solid-state lighting industry and patent owners.