Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Detecting outages in a LED lamp assembly
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Application No.: US15236915Application Date: 2016-08-15
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Publication No.: US09942971B2Publication Date: 2018-04-10
- Inventor: Ronald Patrick Brombach , John Barrs
- 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: Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
- Agent James P. Muraff
- Main IPC: B60Q1/14
- IPC: B60Q1/14 ; H05B37/03 ; H05B33/08 ; B60Q1/00 ; F21S8/10 ; H05B37/02 ; B60Q1/02 ; B60Q1/04 ; F21Y115/10

Abstract:
Apparatus and systems are disclosed for detecting outages in an LED lamp assembly. An example disclosed lamp assembly includes a plurality of LED circuits serially connected together. The LED circuits include an LED, a first resistor and an optocouper. The example disclosed lamp assembly also includes a sense line electrically coupled to one of the LED circuits. The sense line has a first voltage value when all of LEDs in that plurality of LED circuits are operational and a second voltage value when at least one of the LEDs has failed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180049301A1 DETECTING OUTAGES IN A LED LAMP ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2018-02-15
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