McLED

Automotive Lighting

GLT’s Ring Light Brings New Appeal and Functionality to Automotive and Other Lighting Applications

Brecksville, OH, April 25, 2016 – The new ring light from Global Lighting Technologies is a bright and uniform circle of LED-based illumination that lends a special look and appeal to lighting applications. It uses as few as 1 LED, can be produced in a variety of colors, and can be integrated into…

Published by LED professional ·

LED professional

The new ring light from Global Lighting Technologies is a bright and uniform circle of LED-based illumination that lends a special look and appeal to lighting applications. It uses as few as 1 LED, can be produced in a variety of colors, and can be integrated into a wide variety of products.

In automotive applications, GLT’s lighting technology can provide distinctive illumination for daytime running lights, dashboards, doors, sills, interior illumination, cup holders, side markers and tail lights.

In addition to automotive, GLT’s ring light can be used in a wide range of products from desk lamps to wall wash on thermostats and smoke detectors as well as product logo illumination, imparting a special look and appeal that distinguishes the products it’s used in.

The light is bright and uniform, and can be created in a continuous ring, a segmented ring, or an arc. The optical portion of the ring light contains an injection molded optical light guide incorporating LEDs aligned on the input edge containing custom designed optical extraction features to evenly distribute the light rays around the ring.

GLT works with customers to seamlessly integrate the ring light into their custom products, providing full engineering and prototyping services. With more than 1.25 million square feet of manufacturing space in 5 facilities in Taiwan and China, GLT can build customers’ products in even the highest volumes.

For more information, contact Global Lighting Technologies (GLT), Inc., 55 Andrews Circle, Brecksville, OH 44141. Tel: 440-922-4584; Toll-Free: 866-922-4584; Fax: 440-922-4585. E-mail: sales@glthome.com. Web: www.glthome.com.

About Global Lighting Technologies:
Global Lighting Technologies (GLT), Inc. was founded in 2000 to develop LED-based edge lighting technology for the latest generation of flat panel displays. Today, GLT is developing new lighting concepts for solid state lighting in general illumination applications utilizing its LED-based light guide technology. GLT's edge lighting technology focuses the light of LEDs placed along one or more edges of a thin light guide in order to deliver the light precisely where needed, providing bright, uniform light in a thinner form factor with more efficient light extraction and fewer LEDs. With five manufacturing facilities in the Far East, GLT is poised to deliver a better light guide at lower cost with faster turnaround.

Did you like this article?

Share this article

You could also like this

Automotive Lighting

Intelligent light in the software-defined vehicle

In a blog post of 15 October 2026, Dr. Jörg Strauss, head of ams OSRAM’s LED, IRED and Laser business, frames automotive lighting as Digital Photonics: emitters, sensors and software working together in the software-defined vehicle. He covers EVIYOS microLED headlamps with 25,600 pixels, ALIYOS LED-on-foil, RGB-i interior LEDs and IR emitters for driver and occupant monitoring.

Automotive Lighting

A world first on the Audi Q9: digital OLED panel with a curved design

The new Audi Q9 introduces the automotive industry's first three-dimensionally curved digital OLED panel, enabled by ultra-thin carrier glass (0.1 mm) that allows a bend radius up to 200 mm. Third-generation digital OLED technology comprises 512 segments across six panels, including Audi’s largest OLED panel to date with 99 segments, enabling enhanced lateral visibility, new safety and communication functions, and personalized light signatures (static, active, semi-active) with 3D effects. Combined with digital Matrix LED headlights using micro-LED modules, the system enhances interaction with other road users and advances Audi’s decade-long OLED development.

Automotive Lighting

Expanding the horizons of car body lighting – Expert Talk by Dr. Thorsten Anger, Lumileds

Recording of an LpS DIGITAL expert talk, published on 29 November 2024 (34 minutes). Dr. Thorsten Anger, Product Manager 3D LED & MxN at Lumileds, explains why car body lighting – light guides, backlit surfaces and three-dimensional lit structures – is still largely bespoke and too costly for mainstream vehicles, and presents Lumileds’ modular answers: the LUXEON Versat 2016 LED family with new UltraBlue and Warm White options, dynamic signature lights with 192 individually addressable pixels, the LUXEON 3D LED series in three performance tiers, and a coin concept with 49 % optical efficiency.

Automotive Lighting

OPmobility signs an agreement to acquire Hyundai Mobis' lighting activity

OPmobility has signed a final agreement to acquire 100% of Hyundai Mobis' lighting activity for an enterprise value of 600 billion Korean won, expanding its lighting portfolio, global footprint and customer base.

Luminuscree ledEdison optoTE connectivityLTF TechnologyLoreos

The latest Press Releases

Explore All

Stay current with our monthly Update from the lighting industry

LEDprofessional Newsletter

You will receive a confirmation e-mail. Unsubscribe anytime.