Invention Grant
- Patent Title: LED arrangement and method for ambient-light-dependent brightness control of LEDs
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Application No.: US15485368Application Date: 2017-04-12
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Publication No.: US10039168B2Publication Date: 2018-07-31
- Inventor: Walter Mayer , Rubin Wittenberg , Heiner Boehm
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Price Heneveld LLP
- Agent Vichit Chea
- Priority: DE102016207355 20160429
- Main IPC: H05B33/08
- IPC: H05B33/08 ; H05B39/00 ; H04M1/22 ; G09G3/14 ; G09G3/34 ; H05B37/02

Abstract:
An LED arrangement comprising at least one LED, which receives an LED illumination voltage in accordance with a square-wave signal, wherein the brightness of the LED is dependent on the ambient luminosity, which is measured by means of the LED, which is switched in a non-illuminated state as a light sensor. The at least one LED is arranged together with a first and a second transistor in a bridge circuit such that the first transistor applies the LED illumination voltage to the LED in accordance with the square-wave signal, and the second transistor applies a voltage having inverted polarity as the LED illumination voltage to the LED in intervals of the turned-off times of the LED, wherein the duty cycle of the square-wave signal is dependent on the strength of a photocurrent, which flows through the LED when the voltage having inverted polarity is applied thereto.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170318642A1 LED ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR AMBIENT-LIGHT-DEPENDENT BRIGHTNESS CONTROL OF LEDS Public/Granted day:2017-11-02
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