Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Illumination apparatus and lighting device used thereby
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Application No.: US14337447Application Date: 2014-07-22
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Publication No.: US10201046B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Junichi Hasegawa , Hiroshi Kido , Akinori Hiramatsu , Shigeru Ido
- Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Priority: JP2013-161484 20130802
- Main IPC: H05B33/08
- IPC: H05B33/08

Abstract:
An illumination apparatus includes light sources differing from one another in terms of light-emission color and voltage drop when identical current flows therein, switches in one-to-one correspondence with the light sources, a DC power supply circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit performs a first control of the switches through a time division control method such that an on-period of each switch is not overlapped with that of any other switch. The control circuit also performs a second control to individually control at least one of a target current magnitude, flowing through each switch in the switched-on state, and a target on-period length of each switch, and to adjust a ratio of the plurality of light sources in terms of a product of the target current magnitude and the target on-period length.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150035441A1 ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND LIGHTING DEVICE USED THEREBY Public/Granted day:2015-02-05
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