Korean LED maker Lumens have decided to make flexible LED displays a central focus of their business activities, to compete against others in the industrial display market after making LED components that go into TVs, laptops, monitors, and LED car lights. The company have developed one of the industry’s best flexible LED displays, they say, and are now finishing preparations for mass production.
Flexible LED displays use LEDs as pixels. Their flexibility means they can be easily installed on non-flat surfaces, such as round pillars.
Lumens’ flexible LED displays are light and thin—just three millimetres thick, which is about a third of other existing flexible LED displays, while at 300 g it weighs about half of competing products. The Lumens display’s curve radius of 30 cm makes for easy application on round surfaces. It’s 48 cm wide and 16 cm long—perhaps not very large, but the displays can be tiled to provide whatever design or total size is desired.
Over the past two years, Lumens have secured about ten important patents related to flexible LED displays and their applications. A Lumens representative said “It was difficult for us to secure flexibility and durability at the same time; however, we ultimately achieved our goal by developing core technologies not just in LED but also in displays and process”.