Design lighting Tokyo 2014 Concluded in a Great Success

The exhibition for stylish and innovative design lightings, DESIGN LIGHTING TOKYO 2014 took place in a great success from January 15 to 17, doubling the number of exhibitors from 2013.
Outline
DESIGN LIGHTING TOKYO 2014 served as a unique showcase of design lightings which realize more comfortable environment and creative space design. It attracted 14,322* visitors from lighting fixture users (architectural design firms, commercial facility, general contractors, etc.), buyers (interior shops, department stores, importer/exporter, etc.) and so on, which resulted in very high level of exhibitor satisfaction with business opportunities at the show.
(*including the concurrent shows)
Strength in design lighting featuring LED/OLED lighting technologies
Co-held with the key shows for LED/OLED lighting manufacturing technologies and fixtures – LED/OLED Technology Expo and LED/OLED Light Expo, DESIGN LIGHTING TOKYO has huge strength in collecting design lightings featuring LED/OLED lighting. Especially from the OLED category, leading companies such as PANASONIC IDEMITSU OLED LIGHTING, PHILIPS ELECTRONICS and LUMIOTEC exhibited stylish OLED lighting fixtures, effectively presenting advantages of their cutting-edge OLED lighting technologies, such as more flexible design possibility, comfort and user-friendliness.
Special Session by a world-class architect
One of the features of the event was the Special Session addressed by Ms. Kazuyo Sejima, world-class architect who was awarded the Pritzker Prize. It and other Design Seminars attracted a large number of lighting users and played a role in enhancing the event’s position as the hub of the latest design trends. >>Program
Featured events
[BRIDGE]
A selected collection of simple, stylish and “NEXT” products by European lighting brands that had not been launched in Japan. Also enriched with the space design by a Japanese well-known architect Akihisa Hirata, the installation became one of the features of the 2014 show.
Showcasing the latest European designs in Tokyo, it acted as a bridge between Europe and Asia.
[PROTO LIGHTING]
A premium showcase of distinguished prototype lightings. Combining untraditional materials or cutting-edge technologies with innovative shapes and design, those prototypes explored new possibilities of design lightings.

Linear LED reflection lights have promising prospects

Line light LED lamp, comprising a housing having a cavity for cooling, PCB board, LED light source, a lens, glass, silicone seal, the top cover and the fixed frame, the front casing having an opening heat, cooling shell the inner wall of the body has a support ledge for supporting the PCB board, the left side surface of the heat dissipation case, and the rear right side of the cooling ribs are provided, PCB board, LED light source, a lens, glass, silicone seal, surface cover sequentially connected, and the opening in the front surface cover and the radiator is fixedly connected to the housing, LED light source is fitted in the middle of the PCB, the distance between the lens and the support rib is equal to the thickness of the PCB board, the fixing bracket mounted on the heat dissipation case the outside.

Due to the long life of LED lights, low energy consumption, saving significant, therefore, LED lamp as a light source has been widely used in daily life, such as an illumination of LED reflection light. However, LED reflection lights at work heat, the heat generated by the chip if not timely work shed, it will affect the normal work and life of LED reflection lights. Currently solve the heat problem, the use of the LED lights on the installation of the heat sink, heat radiation due to the limited area of the heat sink, resulting in poor heat dissipation, thus affecting the life of LED lamps.

The utility model aims to propose linear light LED reflection light, which can solve the current problem of the short life of LED reflection lights.

To achieve the above object, the present utility model adopts the following scheme : linear LED light lamp, comprising a housing having a cavity for cooling, PCB board, LED light source, a lens, glass, plastic baby seal, and the top cover mounting bracket, said front housing having an opening heat, cooling the inner wall of the housing has a support ledge for supporting the PCB board, left side, right side and back side of the housing has a heat radiating ribs, PCB board, LED light source, a lens, glass, silicone seal, surface cover sequentially connected, and the opening in the front surface cover and the radiator is fixedly connected to the housing, LED light source fitted in the middle of the PCB between the support rib and the lens a distance equal to the thickness of the PCB board, the fixing bracket mounted on the outside of the cooling housing.

Use of internal cooling of the housing cavity and external cooling ribs for cooling, effectively increasing the cooling area, improve thermal performance, thereby extending the life of LED reflection lights.

Officials: Malaysian plane may have flown long after last contact

(CNN) -- It's a mystery that authorities still haven't been able to solve: Where is Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

There were still more questions than answers Thursday as U.S. officials said investigators might start combing the Indian Ocean as they look for the missing aircraft.

Why would authorities expand their search rather than narrowing it?

New information, U.S. officials told CNN, indicates the missing airplane could have flown for several hours beyond the last transponder reading.

Malaysian authorities believe they have several "pings" from the airliner's service data system, known as ACARS, transmitted to satellites in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal, suggesting the plane flew to the Indian Ocean, a senior U.S. official told CNN. That information combined with known radar data and knowledge of fuel range leads officials to believe the plane may have made it to that ocean, which is in the opposite direction of the plane's original route.

"There is probably a significant likelihood" that the aircraft is now on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, the official said, citing information Malaysia has shared with the United States.

It's the latest twist in a case that's baffled investigators and grabbed global attention for days. Information about the missing flight has been hard to come by, and numerous leads have been revealed by some officials only to be debunked by others hours later.

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There are conflicting reports about this latest lead as well.

Earlier Thursday the Malaysian government denied a Wall Street Journal report that the plane was transmitting data after the last transponder signal.

And a senior aviation source with detailed knowledge of the matter also told CNN's Richard Quest on Thursday that there was no technical data suggesting the airplane continued flying for four hours, and said specifically that the Wall Street Journal account was wrong.

But U.S. officials maintained Thursday afternoon that the information from the airplane's data system was being actively pursued in the plane investigation.

Analysts from U.S. intelligence, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have concluded that pings sent to a satellite hours after the plane's last transponder signal likely came from the missing aircraft, the senior U.S. official said.

"It appears the plane was flying most of that time," the senior U.S. official said. The "indication" that the plane kept flying is not based on U.S. government information but rather based on radar readings and plane data.

There is reason to believe the plane flew for four hours, the officials said, but there is no specific indication where the plane actually is.

Multiple bursts of data were received indicating the plane was flying over the Indian Ocean, the senior U.S. official told CNN.

And there's another confusing twist. An emergency beacon that would have sent data if the plane was about to impact the ocean apparently did not go off, the official said. The beacons, known as Emergency Locator Transmitters, activate automatically upon immersion in fresh or salt water, but must remain on the surface for a distress signal to transmit.

The failure of the beacon to activate could mean that the plane didn't crash, that the transmitter malfunctioned, or that it's underwater somewhere.

This new information has now led to a decision to move the USS Kidd into the Indian Ocean to begin searching that area, the official said.

The Navy destroyer is now on its way there at the request of the Malaysian government, Cmdr. William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Thursday.

"We're not out here freelancing, and it's not just something the U.S. Navy thinks and no one else," Marks said. "So this was by request of the Malaysian government. They asked the Navy to move our ship to the west into the Strait of Malacca. ... It is coordinated, but certain ships and aircraft stay in the east, and some go to the west. And we're moving to the west."

Mary Schiavo, former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, said even though it's unclear how accurate the latest information is, authorities have no choice but to pursue it.

"Well I think basically given that there is some information -- how reliable or not -- we have to respond," she said. "There is no way we cannot follow up on this lead. It would be inhumane. And it might turn out to be just the lead we need. ... There isn't much, but I think we have to do it."

So are we any closer to knowing whether a mechanical problem, terrorism or hijacking could be tied to the plane's disappearance?

Not really, said Evy Poumpouras, a former Secret Service agent.

"The sad thing here is, we don't have enough information to say, 'It's not this, it's not that,'" she told CNN's Don Lemon. "We're still at the point, six days later, it could be anything, and that's the frustrating thing."

Analyst: 'Deliberate act' shut down communication

An ABC News report added another twist to the mystery Thursday evening. Citing two unnamed U.S. officials, the network said two separate communications systems on the missing aircraft were shut down separately, 14 minutes apart.

The officials told ABC they believe the plane's data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 a.m. Saturday, while the transponder transmitting location and altitude was shut down at 1:21 a.m.

"This is beginning to come together to say that ...this had to have been some sort of deliberate act," ABC aviation analyst John Nance told CNN's Erin Burnett.

White House spokesman Jay Carney didn't go into details when he discussed the search for the plane Thursday, but he said "some new information that's not necessarily conclusive" could lead U.S. searchers to the Indian Ocean.

"We are looking at information, pursuing possible leads, working within the investigation being led by the Malaysian government, and it is my understanding that one possible piece of information or collection of pieces of information has led to the possibility that a new search area may be opened," Carney said.

Originally, a report from The Wall Street Journal said data from the plane's Rolls-Royce engine had raised questions among some U.S. officials about whether the plane had been steered off course "with the intention of using it later for another purpose," the newspaper reported, citing a "person familiar with the matter."

The newspaper later corrected its story, saying that data leading investigators to believe the plane had flown for up to five hours came from the plane's satellite-communication link, which the newspaper said is "designed to automatically transmit the status of certain onboard systems to the ground."

Malaysia's acting Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Hussein rejected the Wall Street Journal report at a news conference Thursday, reiterating that the plane sent its last transmissions at 1:07 a.m. Saturday.

And Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said that Rolls-Royce and Boeing have reported that they didn't receive transmissions of any kind after 1:07 a.m. Saturday. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane shortly afterward, around 1:30 a.m.

Erin Atan, a spokeswoman for Rolls-Royce in Asia, declined to comment on the matter, telling CNN it was "an official air accident investigation."

Authorities have not ruled out the possibility the plane continued to fly, however. And given the lack of evidence, all options remain on the table.

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The report threatened to open the door to a fresh round of theories about what has become of the plane, which vanished while flying over Southeast Asia on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Four more hours in the air could have put the plane many hundreds of miles beyond the area currently being searched.

But one aviation industry observer expressed skepticism about the report even before the denials by officials.

"I find this very, very difficult to believe," Tom Ballantyne, chief correspondent for the magazine Orient Aviation, told CNN. "That this aircraft could have flown on for four hours after it disappeared and not have been picked up by someone's radar and not have been seen by anyone, it's almost unbelievable."

See more of our coverage on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Search getting harder

The news came after Vietnamese and Chinese search crews found nothing where Chinese satellite photographs released Wednesday showed large floating objects in the South China Sea.

The spot is between Malaysia and Vietnam and not far from the plane's expected flight path.

China's State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense described the images as showing "a suspected crash site."

But Chinese authorities later said the release of the satellite images was a mistake and that they didn't show any debris relating to the plane, Hishammuddin said.

The mystery over the fate of the passenger jet, a Boeing 777-200, and the 239 people it was carrying has so far left government officials and aviation experts flummoxed.

"With every passing day the task becomes more difficult," Hishammuddin said.

Searchers have already been combing a vast area of sea and land for traces of the plane. But so far, with the search well into its sixth day, their efforts have been fruitless.

Malaysian officials say they are still trying to determine if a radar blip detected heading west soon after the plane lost contact was in fact the missing jet.

If it was, the plane would have been hundreds of miles off its original flight path and headed in the wrong direction. Malaysian officials say they have asked U.S. experts to help them analyze the radar data.

Meanwhile, India is joining the multinational search, dispatching two of its naval ships off the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, a military spokesman told CNN.

Last known words

Also on Thursday, a Malaysian aviation official told CNN that the last known words from the flight crew of the missing plane were "All right, good night."

Malaysian civil aviation officer Zulazri Mohd Ahnuar said he couldn't confirm which member of the flight crew sent the message, which was transmitted from the plane back to Malaysian flight controllers as the aircraft transferred into Vietnamese airspace early Saturday.

For the families of those on board the missing plane, the wait for news is torturous.

Danica Weeks is trying to keep it together for her two young sons, though the possibility of life without husband Paul, who was on the plane, is sometimes overwhelming. She's clinging to hope even though, as Weeks told CNN's Piers Morgan, it's "not looking good."

"Every day, it just seems like it's an eternity, it's an absolute eternity," Weeks said from Australia. "We can only go minute by minute ... and hope something comes soon."

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news source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/

Eco friendly lighting LED is used for tunnel lighting system

This invention relates to solar power, wind power, LED tunnel eco friendly lighting related fields, discloses an environmentally friendly energy-saving environmental protection energy-saving LED tunnel eco friendly lighting system design area, and relevant specific application of solar energy, wind energy into electricity for centralized power LED tunnel area eco friendly lighting system design.

With the emerging problem of energy shortage, wind and solar power technology rapid development, combined with the eco friendly lighting in remote areas transportation, can achieve the best effect of small-scale eco friendly lighting power supply.

Wind and solar eco friendly lighting technology has also been applied in the country, but most of the scenery complementary application of domestic eco friendly lighting technology is still based on traditional hot light source illuminating, because the luminous efficiency is low, heat consumption, short life and high environmental requirements and other applications Dual-lamp lighting Flashlight system to produce a variety of reasons a greater burden.

The purpose of the invention is to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art, in a non-specific tunnel area, the design of a non- topographical and environmental constraints, and the need for external power supply supplementary solar, wind or solar hybrid eco friendly lighting system, solar power generation equipment, wind power generation equipment, storage equipment independent of the eco friendly lighting equipment, and through a master control circuit power supply to all eco friendly lighting within a region.

The purpose of the present invention is achieved, an environmentally friendly energy-saving LED tunnel area eco friendly lighting system, which is characterized with a solar power system, wind power generation system, rectifier equipment, storage equipment, shunt controller, output switching power supplies, LED tunnel eco friendly lighting, solar power systems, wind energy systems are connected rectifier equipment and storage devices, storage devices through the shunt controller, connected to the output switching power LED tunnel eco friendly lighting equipment.

The storage device comprises a single block of batteries, battery arrays and storage power station. The rectifier device includes a solar rectifier controller, a controller and an integrated wind power rectifier circuit, rectifier controller solar, wind rectifier controller integrated circuits are connected.

The LED tunnel eco friendly lighting device includes a set of two groups and multiple groups, each LED tunnel eco friendly lighting device has a separate drive and control the output power conversion.

The shunt between the controller and the output of the power converter and transmission power Transmission distance big fashion transformer. The present invention, the power required by the eco friendly lighting system and the solar power generation system and wind power systems together to provide added without external power supply. When the outside light and lack of sufficient wind, the wind power generation system can be omitted only provide eco friendly lighting electricity through solar power system ; Similarly, when the outside wind sufficient and insufficient sunshine, solar power systems can be omitted only by wind power systems to provide eco friendly lighting electricity. Solar and wind energy is converted to electrical energy storage into the first storage device, storage device and then from the power supply for LED tunnel eco friendly lighting equipment.

Toshiba Lighting launches new range of LED tubes these years

Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 550 consolidated companies, with 202,000 employees worldwide and annual sales surpassing 6.1 trillion yen (US$74 billion).

LED lamps consume 90% less energy than conventional bulbs and pay themselves off after a short operating time due to low energy costs, long life expectancy and freedom of maintenance. LED lamps do not get hot and reach 100% brightness immediately (no warming-up period like energy saving lamps). The latest models cannot be distinguished from conventional bulbs by the untrained eye and reach high brightness with a very natural colour rendering.

Toshiba is reported to start offering 40 types of LED tubes by March that it will market to offices and factories.Toshiba Lighting Division announces the launch of its new range of LED Retrofit Tube Lighting products. click there: the Toshiba LED 8A19-27F-UP Bulb is a best in class specification, as well as a higher lumen class of up to 105lm/W representing the most efficient model currently on the market in this lumen class of tube.

Indeed, this is the first range of tube lighting solutions with an efficiency above the T8 fluorescent lamp. The range is weatherproof and comes with a safe change on electromagnetic ballast, requiring no rewiring, and therefore represents the easiest and safest and least expensive model available on the market for indoor and outdoor application which could revolutionise the market.

Toshiba LED tubes also places a special emphasis on design quality and appearance which are key to the commercial adaptation of this product for indoor store use. The design excellence means the E-CORE LED G13 product has altready been launched for warehouse and supermarket installation in Spain.