Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Two-wire dimmer with improved zero-cross detention
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Application No.: US14839443Application Date: 2015-08-28
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Publication No.: US09674933B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: William Zotter , Bingrui Yang , Henry Kite
- Applicant: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.
- Applicant Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Assignee: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.
- Current Assignee: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Agency: Condo Roccia Koptiw LLP
- Main IPC: H05B33/08
- IPC: H05B33/08 ; H05B37/02 ; H05B39/04 ; H05B39/08

Abstract:
A two-wire lighting control device, may include a controllably conductive device, a signal generation circuit, and a filter circuit. The controllably conductive device may apply an AC line voltage to a load, being conductive for a first duration of time and non-conductive for a second duration of time within a half-cycle of the AC line voltage. The signal generation circuit may generate a non-zero-magnitude signal. And, the filter circuit may receive a signal from the controllably conductive device during the first duration of time and the non-zero-magnitude signal from the signal generation circuit during the second duration of time. The non-zero-magnitude signal may, in effect, fill-in or complement the signal from the controllably conductive device, and any delay variation as a function of the firing angle of the controllably conductive device through the filter circuit may be mitigated by the presence of the non-zero-magnitude signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150373817A1 TWO-WIRE DIMMER WITH IMPROVED ZERO-CROSS DETENTION Public/Granted day:2015-12-24
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