A LED light pipe is an optical fiber or a solid transparent plastic rod for transmitting light from an LED mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) to the user interface. Light pipes transmit up to 80 ...

Flexible light guide/light pipe systems from MENTOR offer a cost-efficient solution for many optoelectronic design challenges – not least for a minor design change during a product mid-life-cycle face ...

Abstract: Light emitting diode (LED) as the new light source has the advantages of power saving, environment-friendly, long lifetime and no pollution compared with fluorescent and incandescent lights.

Powell Electronics is stocking a pair of light pipe design kits from Bivar. Each kit includes a selection of Bivar’s most popular light pipes: Panel Press-Fit kit (right) is has rigid light-pipes up ...

BivarOpto has released its new SMPT series of surface-mount LED devices exclusively designed to accept the company's patented flexible light pipes (FLP Series ...

Abstract: In illumination systems, it is often necessary to get a structure that can have good performance on uniformity. Although light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are replacing conventional light sources ...

BivarOpto, the Optoelectronics division of Bivar Inc, introduced a light pipe designed specifically to operate with board-mounted push-button switches, enabling non-lighted switch models to perform ...

There are a number of ways to efficiently and elegantly limit an LED’s brightness, but [Tommy] found that using a light pipe or diffuser can integrate better with a device, especially when the device ...