Invention Grant
- Patent Title: LED driver circuit, LED circuit and drive method
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Application No.: US15328070Application Date: 2015-07-22
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Publication No.: US10015854B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Achim Hilgers , Yuanqiang Liu , Harald Josef Gunther Radermacher
- Applicant: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
- Current Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Agent Akarsh P. Belagodu
- Priority: WOPCT/CN2014/082842 20140723; EP14187660 20141003
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/066804 WO 20150722
- International Announcement: WO2016/012522 WO 20160128
- Main IPC: H05B33/08
- IPC: H05B33/08

Abstract:
A driver circuit for driving an LED arrangement (22), comprising: a power source for providing the LED arrangement with a regulated driving current, said converter (20) being adapted to convert an dimmed input power into said driving current; a current sensing element (42) in series with the LED arrangement (22) and adapted to sense the LED arrangement current through the LED arrangement (22); a bleeder circuit (40) having a bleeding path connected in parallel with the LED arrangement, adapted for removing a bleed portion from the driving current so as to decrease the output power of the LED arrangement; and a control circuit for enabling said bleeder circuit when the LED arrangement current sensed by the current sensing element is below a threshold so as to further dim the LED arrangement down.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170208660A1 LED DRIVER CIRCUIT, LED CIRCUIT AND DRIVE METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-07-20
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