The latest news about ultraviolet

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. (Head office: 2-9-13 Nakameguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo; President: Takanori Kitano) has confirmed high effectiveness of virus inactivation (inability to multiply) of SARS-CoV-2(the virus that causes COVID-19),using their 265nm UVC LED, which has started mass production from July 2020, as a result of conducting an evaluation test in collaboration with Yamaguchi University (Dr. Daisuke Hayasaka and Dr. Hiroshi Shimoda, Laboratory of Veterinary Microbiology, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine).

Stanley Electric is aiming to use this 265nm UVC LED for various applications, such as surface sterilization, air sterilization, and water disinfection for providing safe drinking water, to control infection against SARS-CoV-2,

Please note that we will continue to verify the superiority of this wavelength, by conducting further evaluation tests with differennt wavelengths of UVC light sources. We will inform you of the verification result once the test is completed.

【Test result summary】