LG Innotek, electronic parts affiliate of LG Group, announced Wednesday the firm has developed flexible three-dimensional lighting for premium cars with a plan to aggressively enter the high-end vehicle market. Dubbed Nexlide-HD, it is a module for cars’ front and rear external lighting that emits bright and uniform light. The lighting module consists of a number of specialized LED packages attached to a thin substrate, which helps spread the light around 180 degrees. Previous lighting mod

South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics were among the companies that were granted the greatest number of patents in the US last year, falling within the top 10 and rubbing shoulders with IBM, Microsoft and General Electric, a report by a US patent association showed Monday. Samsung ranked No. 2 with 5,836 registered patents in the US, surpassed only by US IT giant IBM, which filed 9,088, according to the Intellectual Property Owners Association.  The Korean IT

LG Innotek said Tuesday it will start mass-producing 3D sensing modules for smartphones, including LG Electronics’ upcoming G8 ThinQ phones. The electronics parts supplier of LG Group is rolling out the time-of-flight module, known as ToF. LG Electronics had previously announced that it had adopted the ToF sensor made by Germany’s Infineon Technologies for its new flagship phone G8 ThinQ.  ToF module (LG Innotek)The ToF sensor supplied by the German firm and assembled into a module by LG Innotek

LG Innotek Co., an electronics part maker under LG Group, on Monday showcased an ultra-slim vehicle lighting module, Nexlide-L, paving the way for carmakers to develop automobiles with unique designs. (Yonhap)Nexlide is the brand name for LG Innotek‘s automotive LED lighting.LG said the latest product, Nexlide-L, is only 3 mm thick, which is significantly slimmer than the 8 mm thickness of existing models. This represents the thinnest LED lighting module in the market at present.The company said

South Korean parts manufacturer LG Innotek has mass-produced compact refrigerators with thermoelectric modules, the firm said Monday. According to LG Innotek, the recently launched table-sized refrigerator LG Objet has been incorporated with thermoelectric modules. These modules are combined with the components of thermoelements, radiator panels and radiating fans, to replace the cooling compressor system.LG Innotek's thermoelectric modules (LG Innotek)By using thermoelectric semiconductor techn

The National Pension Service, operator of the state-run pension fund, holds stakes of 10.03 percent in LG Innotek and 10 percent in Hanmi Pharmaceutical, it said in a statement Friday.The pension operator’s stake in CJ CGV, the movie theater arm under food and retail giant CJ Group, has reduced to 9.9 percent from 10.72 percent, it added.(khnews@heraldcorp.com)

LG Innotek said Wednesday it has launched visible light-emitting diodes for disinfection lighting, which is a light source with the effect of sterilization by sunlight using indoor light.The company said its 405-nanometer visible LEDs can sterilize an indoor space without having to use any chemicals by removing 99.9 percent of bacteria while the light is turned on. LG Innotek said, “As this product does not harm the human body, its sterilization function can be used in places where many people p

Offshore investors shifted to a net buying mode on South Korea's main KOSPI market last month, ending a five-month selling streak that weighed down the index, data showed Saturday.Foreigners picked up a net 373.4 billion won ($332.2 million) worth of local stocks listed on the top-tier market during the one-month period, according to the data from the Korea Exchange (KRX).It is the first time that they bought more shares than they sold since January, when they scooped up 1.98 trillion won worth

LG Innotek, a South Korean manufacturer of optical electronic parts, has unveiled a full lineup of LEDs generating light sources that grow plants faster than the natural sunlight.Named “Horticulture LEDs,” the products are a semiconductor light source that can control plant growth rates and increase the nutrient content of the crop by using the light of a specific wavelength, the company said in a statement. “This product was developed considering the characteristics that the physiological respo

Koo Kwang-mo, the son of LG Group's late Chairman Koo Bon-moo, became a board member of the holding firm and its CEO on Friday, effectively becoming the fourth-generation leader of the family-controlled conglomerate.Koo, who was adopted by the late business tycoon so as to fulfill the LG family's tradition of handing over power to the chairman's eldest son, was named as the newest board member during Friday's shareholders' meeting of LG Corp. He was tapped by the board as CEO later in the day. K

Over the past seven decades, what has prevented feuds among the owner family members of LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, has been the outdated yet strict adherence to the tradition that only the chairman’s eldest son takes over the management.Considered “LG norm,” the same type of arrangement was long anticipated before the death of late Chairman Koo Bon-moo, the third generation of the founding family, on May 20.But whether the transition will be as smooth as in the precedin

LG Innotek, an electric parts manufacturing subsidiary of LG Electronics, said Tuesday it has completed a facility for mass production of nanometer-class thermoelectric chips for a variety of applications from home appliances to vehicles and vessels. The company has established a production line for the product in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, and will embark on mass production next year, it said. Thermoelectric chips are known as innovative semiconductors that produce power by heating and co

LG CNS, an information technology services provider under South Korea’s LG Group, has launched smart factory platform Factova equipped with artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and big data processing technology solutions, the company said Tuesday. Short for a combination of “factory” and “value,” Factova aims to optimize a factory’s overall operations -- including product planning, design, production and logistics -- by leveraging AI and big data analytics, LG CNS said.The firm built its

애플과 자회사인 럭스뷰테크놀로지가 지난 10년간 한국에서 30여건의 마이크로LED 특허를 출원했다. 이는 글로벌 디스플레이 시장에서 독점적인 지위를 가진 삼성과 LG의 차세대 기술 확보를 견제하기 위한 움직임으로 보인다. 19일 특허청이 코리아헤럴드에 확인해 준 바에 따르면 애플은 지난 10년간 국내에서 마이크로LED 관련 특허를 11건, 럭스뷰는 23건을 출원했다. 럭스뷰는 애플이 2014년 마이크로LED 기술을 개발하려고 인수한 회사다. 애플이 출원한 특허는 마이크로LED의 칩구조, 마이크로LED를 기판에 전달하는 방범과 제어시스템 등이다. 특허청 관계자는 “애플이 다수의 특허를 국내에서 출원한 이유는 삼성과 LG 같은 한국기업의 차세대 디스플레이 기술 확보를 견제하기 위함일 것”이라고 말했다. 삼성과 LG는 글로벌 LCD, OLED 시장에서 수년간 독점적인 지위를 유지해왔으며, 애플 또한 자사의 주력제품인 아이폰의 패널을 한국기업에 의존해왔다. 특히, 최근에 출시한 아이폰X의

Apple and its subsidiary LuxVue Technology have applied for more than 30 patents of Micro-LED technology in South Korea over the last 10 years with the apparent aim of keeping Samsung and LG in check, as the companies may use the next-generation panel technology in their new devices.According to the government, Apple applied for 11 patents, while LuxVue Technology applied for 23 patents for Micro-LED technology over the last 10 years in Korea. LuxVue Technology is a Micro-LED firm acquired by Ap