Koito Manufacturing to Produce LED Headlights for Lexus Automobile
Source/Type: Reported News

March 8, 2007... Koito Manufacturing Co. of Tokyo, Japan, has commercialized an automobile headlight that uses LEDs as the only light source, according to an article on Nikkei Net. The article indicated that the company’s new headlight is expected to be installed in Toyoda Motor Corp.’s Lexus LS600h luxury sedan. Initially, each headlight will use multiple LEDs. Koito expects that its future headlight models will be lit with only one LED. Koito Manufacturing Co. claims to be the first to commercialize LED headlights. However, Philips Lumileds has also announced that its headlights will be in a soon-to-be introduced automobile, the 2008 Audi R8.

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