KYOCERA Technology Powers Japan's First Full-Color Facade Lighting System Utilizing Violet LEDs
October 31 2016 - 8:07AM
Business Wire
Illumination adds beauty and elegance to
Wacoal’s New Kyoto Building
Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) announced that its
LED technology is being utilized in a facade lighting system to
showcase the New Kyoto Building of Wacoal Holdings Corp., Japan’s
leading creator of intimate apparel for women. Completed last
month, the system illuminates the building every night.
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Wacoal's New Kyoto Building, with its
delicate and beautiful changing colors (Photo: Business Wire)
Kyocera’s high-color-rendering LED lighting, which combines
violet LEDs with phosphors and proprietary optical technologies,
creates delicate illumination in a wide range of colors. The system
designed for the Wacoal building bathes its facade in an elegant
gradation of hues suggestive of Kyoto.
The facade lighting system is the first in Japan* to operate by
modulating red, blue, green, and white light generated from violet
LEDs. Furthermore, the building features an environmental design
with a 36kW Kyocera solar power generating system installed on its
rooftop. This system is estimated to generate enough electricity to
power the facade lighting for approximately three to four hours a
day.
About Kyocera’s high-color-rendering LEDs
By combining violet LEDs, RGB (red, green and blue) phosphors
and optical design technology, Kyocera’s high-color-rendering LEDs
produce light which is extremely close to natural sunlight. Since
the light includes a wide range of colors within the visible range,
it facilitates accurate color rendition that is difficult to
achieve with conventional LED lighting.
This unique feature has brought Kyocera’s high-color-rendering
LEDs into many diverse applications — including display lighting
for fine-art museums, surgical lighting, color-inspection lighting
for industrial processes, and illumination for Japan’s revered
ancient shrines and temples. Based on its expertise mainly
cultivated in Japan, the company has started to provide LED modules
in other markets that have a culture of valuing the quality of
light for specific applications. Kyocera will present the LED
modules from 8 to 11 November at electronica 2016 in Munich,
Germany (Hall A3, Booth 241), the world’s leading trade fair for
electronic components, systems and applications. In addition, the
company will introduce them at ForumLED Europe 2016 in Lyon,
France, a global event for LED lighting from 8 to 9 December.
While conventional LED lighting technology (based on blue LEDs
that use yellow phosphors) produces colors only within the straight
line between B and Y in the CIE Chromaticity Diagram, Kyocera’s
violet LEDs with RGB phosphors can produce any color within the
R-G-B triangle.
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About the Wacoal facade lighting
The facade lighting was designed by Japanese artist Kyota
Takahashi to express Wacoal’s corporate image through the concept
of “a veil of silky light.” Using the expanded color capabilities
of Kyocera’s high-color-rendering LED technology, the system
produces an elegant white glow reminiscent of shimmering silk.
Kyocera’s LED light fittings are installed on 72 windows from the
second to seventh (top) floor on the building’s two sides facing
the nearby thoroughfare. These 432 light fittings in total connect
to a main controller to produce dynamic facade lighting with soft
colors that blend with the Kyoto cityscape. The facade lighting’s
normal mode is a soft white reminiscent of natural silk, which
changes to Wacoal’s corporate color for a period of about five
minutes on the hour. At the half-hour, for another period of about
five minutes, the illumination changes to hues evoking the 24 solar
terms of the traditional East Asian lunisolar calendar.
* Japan’s first facade lighting utilizing violet LED-based
four-color modulating technology (as of September 2016, based on
research by Kyocera).
About KYOCERA
Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971)
(http://global.kyocera.com/), the parent and global headquarters of
the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine
ceramics (also known as “advanced ceramics”). By combining these
engineered materials with metals and integrating them with other
technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of electronic
components, printers, copiers, solar power generating systems,
mobile phones, semiconductor packages, cutting tools and industrial
ceramics. During the year ended March 31, 2016, the company’s net
sales totaled 1.48 trillion yen (approx. USD13.1 billion). Kyocera
appears on the 2014 and 2015 listings of the “Top 100 Global
Innovators” by Thomson Reuters, and is ranked #531 on Forbes
magazine’s 2016 “Global 2000” listing of the world’s largest
publicly traded companies.
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