Patents Assigned to ANDEN CO., LTD/DENSO CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20040150355
    Abstract: A control device of LEDs includes a lighting-up circuit and a lighting-out circuit, both of which generate pulse signals being pulse-width modulated by varying cycles and corresponding duty ratios based on an input signal during a start-up period and a falling period, respectively. The control device then provides LEDs with the electric current relative to the pulse signals. Both of the lighting-up circuit and lighting-out circuit vary the cycles and corresponding duty ratios of the pulse signals, so that a luminance variation characteristic of the LEDs becomes nonlinear, leading to being approximated to a luminance variation characteristic of an electric bulb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: ANDEN CO., LTD/DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Tani, Yoshichika Abe