KYOCERA's New Air-Cooled UV Curing Light Is World's Smallest, Lightest and Most Powerful
28 März 2018 - 2:07PM
Business Wire
Supports UV ink printing, including billboard
printing, as well as UV-cured coatings and adhesives
Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) announced today that
it has developed a new air-cooled UV-LED curing light that is not
only the world’s most powerful*1, but also the world’s smallest*2.
The new Kyocera G5A Series is ideal for use in industrial
ultraviolet (UV) ink printing applications, including billboard
printing, as well as UV-cured coating and adhesive processes.
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G5A Series UV-LED curing light (Photo:
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Kyocera’s proprietary technology results in the world’s highest
UV intensity (24W/cm2) among air-cooled curing lights for UV
printing. This product sets a new industry standard by offering the
highest performance in a package that is also both the world’s
lightest and smallest, at about half the size of a conventional
air-cooled UV curing light offering high UV intensity
(16W/cm2).
Product Overview Model G5A Series LED
wavelength 365nm 385nm 395nm UV intensity
(WD=0mm)
16W/cm2 24W/cm2 Accumulated light
(50m/min)
250mJ/cm2 350mJ/cm2 Irradiation area 80mm Size
(Width x Length x Height)
80.3×88.0×150.5 (mm) Weight 950g Production facility Shiga
Yohkaichi Plant Sales target 1 billion yen by FY20
(Fiscal year ending March 2020)
Development
UV printing is a printing method that uses ultraviolet light to
cure ink immediately as it is printed, thus allowing for printing
on a wide variety of non-paper media, including plastic sheets. In
addition to its convenience, this printing method is more
environmentally friendly, using energy-efficient LED lights. The
G5A Series incorporates Kyocera’s proprietary ceramic substrate
with excellent heat conductivity in a heat-radiating modular
design, which allows LED elements to be mounted at an exceptionally
high density. Since it employs an integrated air-cooling system
which eliminates the need for supplemental liquid cooling
equipment, it can help reduce total equipment costs while saving
space. Furthermore, its scalable structure allows users to adjust
irradiation width, enabling full design optimization to suit a wide
range of applications and printing media.
Background
New applications keep emerging for UV printing based on
long-lasting, energy-efficient LEDs as a curing source. According
to Yole Developpement, a global research company based in France,
the UV curing market is expected to expand to approx. USD300
million by 2019*3. Demand for high-speed UV printing is rising
especially among wide-format inkjet billboard-printing
applications, coating applications and adhesive applications.
Design requirements increasingly specify an air-cooled UV light
with high output for higher productivity.
*1 Based on research by Kyocera; among air-cooled UV-LED curing
lights for UV printing (as of February 28, 2018).*2 Based on
research by Kyocera; among air-cooled UV-LED curing lights with a
higher UV intensity than 12W/cm2 (as of February 28, 2018).*3
Source: Yole Developpement (UV LEDs: Technology, Manufacturing and
Application Trends)
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https://global.kyocera.com/news/2018/0302_mbsc.html
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
devices, semiconductor packages, printers, copiers, mobile phones,
solar power generating systems, cutting tools and industrial
components. During the year ended March 31, 2017, the company’s
consolidated net sales totaled 1.42 trillion yen (approx. USD12.7
billion). Kyocera appears on the “Top 100 Global Innovators” list
by Clarivate Analytics and is ranked #522 on Forbes magazine’s 2017
“Global 2000” list of the world’s largest publicly traded
companies.
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