StockerYale's COBRA™ 500 LED Line Illuminator Awarded 2004 Photonics Circle Of Excellence Award
Extremely Bright LED Source Ideal For Machine Vision, Security ID, and OEM Medical Applications
Salem, NH -- StockerYale, Inc., a leading independent provider of photonics-based products today announces that its COBRA™ 500 LED Line Illuminator was awarded the 2004 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award by Photonics Spectra Magazine. This award has earned the respect of the photonics community due to the fact that the chosen products are carefully assessed for excellence, innovation and achievement by a panel of knowledgeable peers – Photonics Spectra's editorial advisory board. This distinguished group of acknowledged experts in their respective fields selects winners based solely on innovation and merit.
Due to their efficiency, compactness, and extremely long lifetimes as compared to traditional lighting technologies, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are emerging as the up-and-coming lighting source that is advancing industrial illumination. StockerYale's engineers have developed the innovative chip-on-board reflective array (COBRA™) method for LED module fabrication, a technique that represents a significant improvement in both thermal and optical performance. The COBRA technique, combined with recent technological advances in the LED semiconductor industry, have allowed the company to deliver compact LED-based illuminators that provide more optical power than traditional lighting technologies such as halogen and fluorescent in select applications.
The COBRA 500 LED Line Illuminator was the first in a family of new products based upon the Company's patented COBRA technology. The COBRA line light family has recently been extended to include line lights in lengths of 125, 250, and 500 mm that deliver a variety of wavelengths to meet the requirements of a broad spectrum of applications.
High-power line lights that are now possible with COBRA technology play a crucial role in a variety of machine vision applications. As manufacturers incorporate increasingly sophisticated yield-improvement techniques, 100% inspection of high-quality items is becoming widespread, particularly in the rapidly growing LCD and flat panel display (FPD) industries where COBRA line lights provide the extreme brightness necessary to inspect the surface of these items. Other major applications include the inspection of paper, foil, metal sheets, bank notes, and lumber.
The Company also markets its COBRA technology to OEM customers for design-in projects in the security and medical industries.
"On behalf of StockerYale, I was pleased to accept this prestigious award from Photonics Spectra for our best-in-class COBRA 500 LED Line Illuminator," said Ricardo Diaz, chief operating officer. "StockerYale has invested significant R&D resources to build technical capabilities that enable the development of innovative products such as the COBRA 500." Diaz added, "We are very encouraged about the recent patent award on our COBRA technology and our customer's response, and believe that the new additions to our COBRA product line will expand the range of applications for the machine vision market."
To learn more about StockerYale's capabilities, visit www.stockeryale.com/capabilities.
About StockerYale
StockerYale, Inc., headquartered in Salem, NH, is an independent designer and manufacturer of structured light lasers, light emitting diodes, (LEDs), fiber optic, and fluorescent illumination technologies as well as specialty optical fiber and phase masks for use in a wide range of markets and industries including the machine vision, telecommunications, aerospace, defense and security, utilities, industrial inspection and medical markets. StockerYale serves a widely varied, international customer base and reinvests a significant percentage of its revenues in R&D to meet the future requirements of its customers. StockerYale has offices and subsidiaries in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Pacific Rim.
For more information about StockerYale and its innovative products, visit www.stockeryale.com.
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