Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of controlling a lighting arrangement, a lighting control circuit and a lighting system
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Application No.: US16086693Application Date: 2017-04-04
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Publication No.: US10405383B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Dirk Jan Van Kaathoven , Theo Gerrit Zijlman , Marcel Van Der Ham , Lambertus Adrianus Marinus De Jong
- Applicant: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
- Current Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP16166560 20160422
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/057988 WO 20170404
- International Announcement: WO2017/182266 WO 20171026
- Main IPC: H05B33/08
- IPC: H05B33/08

Abstract:
A lighting control circuit is for controlling a lighting arrangement comprising a set of at least two light sources in parallel. A current driver is used to deliver a drive current to the lighting arrangement. A switch is associated with the second light source, which may for example be provided for color adjustment, and the duty cycle of the switch is controlled as well as the overall drive current setting thereby to control the color or color temperature setting and dimming level of the lighting arrangement. The controller derives the required average output current and the expected average output voltage from the current driver based on the determined duty cycle and the dimming level, and then derives the current driver setting. In this way, the current driver is accurately controlled to deliver the required output. This enables a single stage driver to be used to control the color or color temperature of multiple light source channels, for example in dependence on a dimming level.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190110343A1 A METHOD OF CONTROLLING A LIGHTING ARRANGEMENT, A LIGHTING CONTROL CIRCUIT AND A LIGHTING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-04-11
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