Invention Grant
- Patent Title: AC LED dimmer and dimming method thereby
- Patent Title (中): 交流LED调光和调光方式
-
Application No.: US13692371Application Date: 2012-12-03
-
Publication No.: US08901841B2Publication Date: 2014-12-02
- Inventor: Byung Hoon Choi , In Kyu Park
- Applicant: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: H.C. Park & Associates, PLC
- Priority: KR10-2008-0087758 20080905
- Main IPC: H05B37/02
- IPC: H05B37/02 ; H05B39/04 ; H05B41/36 ; G06F1/00 ; H05B33/08

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an AC LED dimmer and dimming method thereof. The AC LED dimmer includes a rectifier receiving AC voltage from an AC voltage source and full-wave rectifying the AC voltage; a direct current (DC)/DC converter receiving the full-wave rectified voltage from the rectifier, generating a full-wave rectified stepped-up voltage, and generating a pulse enable signal; a pulse width modulation controller receiving the full-wave rectified stepped-up voltage and generating a pulse width modulation signal to dim an AC LED in response to the pulse enable signal; a switch driving the AC LED under control of the pulse width modulation signal, and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter to be connected between the AC voltage source and the switch to eliminate electromagnetic interference from the AC voltage source. Accordingly, the dimmer can perform an efficient and linear dimming function and suppress harmonics.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130093341A1 AC LED DIMMER AND DIMMING METHOD THEREBY Public/Granted day:2013-04-18
Information query