[China Times]LECC Taps Wearable Device Healthcare Business Opportunity

China Times | Li Hanmin

The “SMD LD Laser Diode”, a key component in enabling home healthcare. Aiming at the healthcare business opportunity of post-pandemic wearable devices, LECC has developed a miniaturized "SMD LD Laser Diode-3433", the size is only 3.4mm×3.3mm, and the weight is as light as 0.1g, lighter and shorter in product application and has a service life of up to 11,000 hours. LECC develops the parts (SMD) used by surface welding technology, which greatly reduces the volume of the packaged product and can be applied to the mass production of automated SMT machines.

After more than half a century of development, laser has become inseparable from modern life, such as the well-known medical beauty, optical storage, optical communication, facial recognition, and semiconductor precision processing. Nobel Prize-winning technology has generated an annual output value of tens of billions of dollars.

Semiconductor laser is the most widely used laser technology and belongs to the III-V group of semiconductor devices. At present, the application of laser in global medicine has made staged progress, which is divided into two categories: laser diagnosis and laser physiotherapy (including laser beauty). The former uses the laser as the information carrier, and the latter uses the laser as the energy carrier.

Because laser is superior to traditional treatment methods in terms of accuracy, efficacy and safety, various laser medical equipment has entered various departments such as surgery, skin, ENT, oral cavity, cardiovascular and oncology. The clinical therapeutic effect is achieved by performing surgery or interventional therapy on the diseased tissue by coagulation, cutting, vaporization, etc.

The advantage of "SMD LD-3433" is that it is light, thin, and short. Generally, the height of the laser diode is about 3.5mm. LECC optimizes it to 0.8mm, which makes the product easy to cooperate with automatic production, saving production loss and Man-hours, small divergence angle, small energy concentration, and it is also very suitable for consumer healthcare applications such as low-energy laser therapy.

LECC aims at the healthcare business opportunities of wearable devices after the epidemic and is expected to increase the penetration rate of lasers in healthcare applications in the future. In addition to its own profound technology in manufacturing laser modules, it is currently actively developing a series of product lines that combine lasers with traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, including photon energy laser belts, laser hair growth caps/combs, nose/ear laser care devices, etc., to achieve home medical care new trends in healthcare. The principle of laser acupuncture is to use low-energy lasers to irradiate acupuncture points or myofascial pain points. Lasers with fixed energy and frequency can promote the synthesis of granules and glands, increase energy sources, activate endocrine regulation, and achieve anti-inflammatory and blood circulation recovery effects. Compared with traditional acupuncture, people who are afraid of pain and needles can also choose painless and non-invasive laser acupuncture.

SMD LD is small, low in cost and widely used in various applications. LECC Technology integrates the three major fields of optics, structure, and electronics. Under the integrated management strategy of R&D, proofing, and production, LECC Technology also provides SMD or TO packaged laser diodes s solution. LECC can customize specific wavelength, optical power, light spot shape and divergence angle according to needs.