Combined With Parallel Connected Load Device Patents (Class 315/192)
  • Patent number: 11974370
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lighting device with adjustable technical effects using few extraction electrodes to keep the cost low and the device simple, the device including: at least one filament group, wherein each filament group includes at least one filament, each filament includes at least one first light emitting unit and at least one second light emitting unit, which are connected in anti-parallel, and the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit have different light attributes from each other; and a light attribute adjusting unit, which is connected to both ends of each filament group to adjust a light attribute of light emitted from the lighting device, wherein the light attribute of the emitted light can be different from the light attribute of any light emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Jie Gao, Kun Xiao, Yankun Gong, Pan Yao, Jia Zhu
  • Patent number: 11967273
    Abstract: A control circuit, a drive device, and a display. The control circuit includes: a control unit and a detection unit. The detection unit is connected with a plurality of output voltage feedback terminals of a drive chip, and the detection unit is connected with the control unit. The detection unit is configured for providing a first voltage to the control unit when a voltage of at least one output voltage feedback terminal in the plurality of output voltage feedback terminals is detected, the first voltage being greater than a second voltage received by the control unit. The control unit is configured for controlling the drive chip to restart when the first voltage is greater than the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: MIANYANG HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Peiyang Lin, Honghai Liu, Xiaowei Han, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11945363
    Abstract: A method for operating an automotive lighting device including providing a first preliminary current profile, calculating a first preliminary derating time associated to the first preliminary current profile, providing a second preliminary current profile, calculating a second preliminary derating time associated to the second preliminary current profile, feeding the first light module with a first current profile which provides a total amount of current lower than the first preliminary amount of current, and feeding the second light module with a second current profile which provides a total amount of current higher than the second preliminary amount of current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Hafid El Idrissi, Rabih Taleb
  • Patent number: 11950338
    Abstract: A parallel sequenced LED light string includes a plurality of LED modules. The LED modules are connected in parallel through a power wire with a plurality of wire resistances. Each of the LED modules includes an impedance component capable of providing an impedance characteristic. The parallel-connected LED modules receive a supply power, and the LED modules respectively get different voltages through the wire resistances and the impedance components from the supply power so as to sequencing the LED modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11948502
    Abstract: A power voltage supply circuit for a display device including: a branch node; a voltage converter having an output terminal connected to the branch node, the voltage converter configured to convert an input voltage received from outside, and output a power voltage to the branch node; a first output node connected to the branch node and configured to output the power voltage; a second output node connected to the branch node; and a charge pump connected between the branch node and the second output node and configured to transform the power voltage with different gain values in response to a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byung Kyou Min
  • Patent number: 11917737
    Abstract: A circuit for sharing current between parallel LEDs or parallel strings of LEDs, and a method of use of the same, are disclosed herein. The circuit for sharing current between parallel LED pathways can include a first LED pathway, a first transistor coupled to the first set of LEDs and that can control a first current through the first set of LEDs, and a first measurement node having a first sensed voltage. The circuit can include a second LED pathway, a second transistor coupled to the second set of LEDs and that can control a second current through the second set of LEDs, and a second measurement node having a second sensed voltage. The circuit includes a first differential amplifier and a second differential amplifier, each of which can compare sensed voltage and can apply a voltage to a gate of one of the first and second transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward George Marquette
  • Patent number: 11888017
    Abstract: A transparent display panel with a light-transmitting substrate, a plurality of top-emitting micro light emitting diodes, a plurality of bottom-emitting micro light emitting diodes, and a light shielding layer. The light transmissive substrate has a surface. These top-emitting micro light emitting diodes and these bottom-emitting micro light emitting diodes are disposed on the surface of the light transmissive substrate. The bottom-emitting micro light emitting diodes has an epitaxial structure and a light shielding member, the epitaxial structure has a pair of upper and lower surfaces on the opposite sides, the lower surface faces toward the light transmissive substrate, and the light shielding member is disposed on the upper surface to shield the light emitted by the bottom-emitting micro light emitting diodes towards the upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Chu Li, Kuan-Yung Liao, Pei-Hsin Chen, Yi-Ching Chen, Yi-Chun Shih
  • Patent number: 11870334
    Abstract: A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load includes a thyristor, a gate coupling circuit for conducting a gate current through a gate of the thyristor, and a control circuit for controlling the gate coupling circuit to conduct the gate current through a first current path to render the thyristor conductive at a firing time during a half cycle. The gate coupling circuit is able to conduct the gate current through the first current path again after the firing time, but the gate current is not able to be conducted through the gate from a transition time before the end of the half-cycle until approximately the end of the half-cycle. The load current is able to be conducted through a second current path to the electrical load after the transition time until approximately the end of the half-cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Robert C Newman, Jr., Daniel F. Carmen, Christopher J. Salvestrini, Matthew V. Harte
  • Patent number: 11859778
    Abstract: In embodiments, a first light engine produces a first light spectrum having a first CCT. A second light engine produces a second light spectrum having a second CCT. The first light spectrum is emitted from a first region of an enclosure; a second light spectrum is emitted from a second region; and a mixture is emitted from a third region that separates the first and second regions. The second CCT is less than the first CCT; a difference between the first and second CCTs is at least 10,000K. The first light spectrum may have a first emission peak in a range of 450 to 480 nm and a second emission peak in a range of 380 to 420 nm. The second light spectrum may have a third emission peak in a range of 480 to 500 nm and a fourth emission peak in the range of 450 to 480 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Biological Innovation and Optimization Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Soler, Eric Schafer, Erica Voss, Michael Phillips, Duncan Jackson
  • Patent number: 11839008
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a smart window and a driving method thereof and a smart window system. The smart window includes a glass module, a first controller, at least one light bar group and a light bar monitoring circuit. The glass module is coupled to the first controller; the at least one light bar group is coupled to the first controller; and the light bar monitoring circuit includes at least one light bar monitoring sub-circuit. The at least one light bar monitoring sub-circuit is coupled to the first controller and is coupled in a one-to-one correspondence to the at least one light bar group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongbo Wang, Chen Meng, Yiping Ruan, Shaobo Han, Siheng Xu, Zhong Hu, Kai Yu
  • Patent number: 11823633
    Abstract: The present application provides a mini light-emitting diode (mini-LED) backlight module and a display device. The mini-LED backlight module includes a plurality of separate backlight regions. Each of the separate backlight regions is provided with at least two LEDs. Each branch of the LEDs is connected to a protective circuit. The protective circuit includes a rectifier module connected in series with the LED, and a control module connected to the rectifier module and an output end of the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kaifeng Zhou, Meng Wang
  • Patent number: 11785686
    Abstract: An LED drive circuit includes a power supply terminal, an LED, a first switch, and a first resistor are connected in series. The power supply terminal, a third resistor, and a second switch are connected in series. A connection point between the third resistor and the second switch, and a control terminal of the first switch are connected. A second resistor is connected between a connection point between the first switch and the first resistor, and a control terminal of the second switch. A first PTC thermistor is connected to a connection point between the control terminal of the second switch and the second resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yumin Saigo
  • Patent number: 11741808
    Abstract: A linkable LED lighting system designed with an on line free setting method for adjusting operating parameters of at least one LED security light is disclosed. The linkable LED lighting system comprises at least one LED security light working in conjunction with a mobile phone loaded with an APP (software application) for controlling and setting at least one lighting characteristic of the at least one LED security light including time length settings, light intensity settings, color temperature settings, detection range settings, or signal frequency range or signal format settings for screening, accepting, and processing said wireless instruction signal(s) characterized with the same signal frequency range or the same signal format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Vaxcel International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Teh Chen
  • Patent number: 11647569
    Abstract: A multi-channel power supply system includes a power supply circuit configured to generate a drive signal for powering a plurality of color channels based on an input power signal, a first current control circuit coupled to a first color channel of the plurality of color channels and configured to adjust a first channel current of the first color channel based on the drive signal and a first reference signal, and to generate a feedback signal to control the drive signal of the power supply circuit, and a channel controller configured generate the first reference signal based on a color temperature according to a black body curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ERP POWER, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Archer, Louis Chen, James H. Mohan
  • Patent number: 11631792
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a Chip Scale Packaged (CSP) LED, the CSP LED including an LED chip that generates blue excitation light; and a photoluminescence layer that covers a light emitting face of the LED chip, wherein the photoluminescence layer comprises from 75 wt % to 100 wt % of a manganese-activated fluoride photoluminescence material of the total photoluminescence material content of the layer. The device/CSP LED can further include a further photoluminescence layer that covers the first photoluminescence and that includes a photoluminescence material that generates light with a peak emission wavelength from 500 nm to 650 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventors: Jun-Gang Zhou, Gang Wang, Yi-Qun Li
  • Patent number: 11598508
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes one or more light emitting elements and a plurality of fluorescent materials, and emits a first light, a second light, and a third light, wherein the first light has a correlated color temperature between 1,500 K and 3,500 K and a color rendering index R9 of 50 or more, the second light has a correlated color temperature between 3,500 K and 5,500 K and a color rendering index R9 of 50 or more, the third light has values of X and Y coordinates in the chromaticity diagram of the CIE1931 color system smaller than the values of X and Y coordinates at a color temperature of 5,500 K on the black body radiation locus, and a light having a correlated color temperature of 6,500 K has a color rendering index R9 of 50 or more and a melanopic ratio of 1.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Niki, Jun Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11594187
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel unit including a target pixel and peripheral pixels in a unit area set based on the target pixel; a converter configured to adjust a voltage level of a data voltage of the target pixel, based on light emission statuses of the peripheral pixels, and to determine a voltage level of a black voltage of at least one peripheral pixel which does not emit light among the peripheral pixels, based on the light emission statuses of the peripheral pixels; and a data driver configured to apply the data voltage to the target pixel, and to apply the black voltage to the at least one peripheral pixel which does not emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Si Beak Pyo, Yeong Bong Kang
  • Patent number: 11585515
    Abstract: Lighting controller including control system having first control facility and second control facility. First and second control facilities respectively are for controlling first and second visible-light sources including first and second pluralities of semiconductor light-emitting devices spaced apart from and along longitudinal axis. First and second visible-light sources respectively are positioned for directing first and second beams of first and second visible-light emissions from first and second pluralities of semiconductor light-emitting devices in first and second beam directions. First and second control facilities respectively are programmed for controlling first and second intensities of first and second beams of first and second visible-light emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: KORRUS, INC.
    Inventor: Paul Pickard
  • Patent number: 11578841
    Abstract: Lighting apparatuses include an enclosure around first and second light engines. The enclosure has a diffuser over first, second and third regions. The first and second regions are separated by the third region; a first light spectrum is emitted from the first region; a second light spectrum is emitted from the second region; and a mixture of the spectrums is emitted from the third region. In some embodiments, the first spectrum has a CCT?7000K; the second spectrum has a CCT?6500K. In some embodiments, the first spectrum has a first CCT?3500K; the second spectrum has a second CCT?6500K; the second CCT<first CCT and the difference between the CCTs is at least 1000K. In some embodiments, the first spectrum has a color bounded by a first set of chromaticity coordinates, and the second spectrum has a color bounded by a second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Biological Innovation and Optimization Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Soler, Eric Schafer, Erica Voss, Michael Phillips, Duncan Jackson
  • Patent number: 11578844
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) light string control system with carrier identification function includes a control module, a power capacitor, and an LED light string. The control module converts a DC voltage to carry signals on the DC voltage through a power switch according to a lighting command. The power capacitor performs a capacitive charge-discharge operation to the signals on the DC voltage to generate capacitive charge-discharge signals. The LED light string includes at least one LED module, and the at least one LED module identifies that a charge-discharge characteristic is a first logic, a second logic, or a latch indication, and to generate a drive command corresponding to the signals on the DC voltage according to one of the first logic, the second logic, and the latch identification to control lighting behavior of the LED light string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11562684
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, the plurality of pixels respectively including a plurality of sub pixels. The plurality of sub pixels respectively includes a light emitting element, and a PWM pixel circuit configured to control a light emitting duration of the light emitting element, based on a pulse width modulation (PWM) data voltage and a sweep voltage. A plurality of PWM pixel circuits included in the display panel are driven, for each of row lines of the plurality of pixels, in an order of a data setting period for setting the PWM data voltage and then a light emitting period in which the light emitting element emits light during a duration corresponding to the set PWM data voltage according to a change of the sweep voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shigeta, Jinho Kim, Sangyoung Park, Hoseop Lee
  • Patent number: 11553572
    Abstract: A power converter circuit may include a control circuit configured to generate a drive signal for rendering a semiconductor switch conductive and non-conductive to generate a bus voltage across a bus capacitor. The control circuit may adjust a minimum operating period of the drive signal to a first value when an output power of the power converter circuit is greater than a first threshold and to a second value when the output power is less than a second threshold. The control circuit may comprise a comparator that generates the drive signal in response to a sense voltage and a threshold voltage. When operating in a standby mode, the control circuit may adjust a magnitude of the threshold voltage based on an instantaneous magnitude of an alternating-current line voltage received by the power converter circuit, such that an input current drawn by the power converter circuit is sinusoidal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan M. Bocock, Quinn Brogan
  • Patent number: 11546011
    Abstract: An RF device may include RF circuitry having a PIN diode configured to switch an RF signal, and a biasing circuit. The biasing circuit may include a controllable power supply having a control input and an current output coupled to the PIN diode to selectively bias the PIN diode into an ON state, and a feedback circuit coupled between the current output and the control input of the controllable power supply to set a current delivered to the PIN diode in the ON state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HARRIS GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Eller, John Robert McIntyre
  • Patent number: 11530783
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a substrate having a plurality of flat portions and a non-flat portion disposed between the flat portions, a plurality of light emitting sources disposed on the substrate, a fluorescent substrate layer covering one or more light emitting sources and converting a wavelength of a light from the light emitting source, and a connection line disposed on the substrate and electrically connecting the light emitting sources adjacent to each other between the adjacent light emitting sources. The substrate has a first end and a second end are arranged at different distance from a central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Park, Seong Jin Lee, Jong Kook Lee
  • Patent number: 11490485
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for connecting a plurality of LED modules in parallel comprises a positive pole terminal and a negative pole terminal for connecting a driver, a positive pole terminal line for electrically connecting the positive pole terminal to the modules, a negative pole terminal line for electrically connecting the negative pole terminal to the modules, a plurality of positive pole terminal contacts for electrically connecting the positive pole terminal line to anode terminal contacts of the modules, and a plurality of negative pole terminal contacts for electrically connecting the negative pole terminal line to cathode terminal contacts of the modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Fischer
  • Patent number: 11452190
    Abstract: This disclosure includes systems, methods, and techniques for detecting one or more short connections in a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) channels. For example, a circuit includes processing circuitry configured to control a plurality of driving devices in order to cause a pair of LED channels of the plurality of LED channels to operate in a first state during a first period of time and operate in a second state during a second period of time. Additionally, the processing circuitry is configured to compare a first electrical signal corresponding to the first state of the pair of LED channels and a second electrical signal corresponding to the second state of the pair of LED channels and determine, based on the comparison of the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal, if a short connection exists between the pair of LED channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Franco Mignoli, Hans-Peter Kreuter, Alfonso Nasciuti, Marco Pamato, Damiano Sartori
  • Patent number: 11395395
    Abstract: A system for driving a multi-functional light emitting diode (LED) lamp includes a first light source group and a second light source group classified depending on lamp functions, a single LED lamp driving device to regulate an input voltage to a voltage necessary for each lamp function and to apply the voltage to the first light source group and the second light source group, a switching device to control an On/Off state of the first light source group and the second light source group, and a control device to time-division control a time to turn on/off the switching device by internetworking with the LED lamp driving device and to control a light quantity of the first light source group and the second light source group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, SL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Choong Seob Park, Jin Hyun Kim, So Jeong Kang, Chul Sung Lee, Ga Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 11393966
    Abstract: An omnidirectional LED light wire and a packaging method thereof, a light source and a lamp, and in particular, to the technical field of LED lighting. The omnidirectional LED light wire includes one or more than one flip chip and two or more than two conductive components. The one or more than one flip chip is connected through the conductive components to realize an electrical connection relationship, in single, in series, parallel or a combination of series and parallel, of the one or more than one flip chip. In view of technical problems of low efficacy, low temperature resistance and poor heat dissipation of the existing FPC substrate, the disclosure breaks bottlenecks of temperature resistance and dissipation of the FPC substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hangzhou Hangke Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qianjun Yan, Zhaozhang Zheng, Lingli Ma
  • Patent number: 11386661
    Abstract: A method of creating a light script for a video is disclosed. The light script comprises lighting control instructions for controlling one or more light sources when the video is being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Anthonie Hendrik Bergman, Simon Rycroft, Jonathan David Mason, Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Jacobus Dingenis Machiel Van Boven
  • Patent number: 11374758
    Abstract: A transceiver is disclosed including a transmitter designed to output a first signal according to a physical communication protocol, and to output a second signal comprising at least one cryptographic datum. The first and the second signal may be overlaid onto one another as an overlay signal at the output of the transceiver, and may comply with the physical communication protocol. The overlay signal may be received and processed by a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Zeh, Vivin Richards Allimuthu Elavarasu, Eric Pihet
  • Patent number: 11369013
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides lighting systems suitable for generating white light. The lighting systems can have a first lighting channel configured to produce a first white light having a first color point and a first spectral power distribution, a second lighting channel configured to produce a second white light having a second color point and a second spectral power distribution, and a control system configured to independently change the intensity of each of the first lighting channel and the second lighting channel. The first lighting channels can have LEDs having an emission with a first peak wavelength of between about 440 nm and about 510 nm. The second lighting channels can have LEDs having an emission with a second peak wavelength of between about 380 nm and about 420 nm. The disclosure provides methods of generating white light using the lighting systems described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: KORRUS, INC.
    Inventors: Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: 11335981
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery. The secondary battery according to the present invention comprises an electrode stack in which an electrode and a separator are combined with each other and a ground part grounding the electrode stack to the outside, wherein the ground part comprises a ground member disposed at one side of the separator to allow abnormal current flowing from the electrode to the one side of the separator to be introduced therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Seong Yoon Lim, Mi Geum Choi
  • Patent number: 11317494
    Abstract: A linear luminance adjusting circuit includes a rectifying circuit, a constant voltage circuit, a control module, a linear constant current circuit and a hybrid luminance circuit. The rectifying circuit rectifies power from the AC power source to generated a rectified voltage. The constant voltage circuit transforms the rectified voltage into a constant voltage. The control module is electrically coupled to the constant voltage circuit. The control module generates a control signal using the constant voltage. The linear constant current circuit is electrically coupled to the rectifying circuit and the control module. The linear constant current circuit is powered up using the rectifying voltage. And the linear constant current circuit generates a linear current using the control signal. The hybrid luminance circuit is electrically coupled to the rectifying circuit and the linear constant current circuit. The hybrid luminance circuit illuminates using the linear current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN LEEDARSON LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Qiqiang Lin, Hemu Ye, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11296142
    Abstract: An LED package set including a substrate, a first LED package disposed on the substrate and including at least one first LED chip, a second LED package disposed on the substrate and including at least one second LED chip, and a resistor disposed on the substrate, connected to the first LED package in series, and connected to the second LED package in parallel, in which the second LED package is connected in parallel to the first LED package and the resistor, and the first LED package and the second LED package are configured to emit light having different color temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Jin Lee, Jong Kook Lee
  • Patent number: 11265983
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides lighting systems, which may be semiconductor light emitting devices, with two or more of blue, red, short-blue-pumped cyan, long-blue-pumped cyan, yellow, and violet channels. The lighting systems can have a plurality of operational modes that provide different biological effects while having good color rendering capability. The yellow and violet channels can include violet LEDs and be used in operational modes that provide white light with lower EML values relative to operational modes using three or more of the blue, red, short-blue-pumped cyan, and long-blue-pumped cyan color channels. The yellow, red, and violet channels can be used in an operational mode to provide low EML values while providing white light between about 1800K and about 3500K CCT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ECOSENSE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: 11252943
    Abstract: A method of emitting light from one or more light emitting elements, the method comprising: emitting a first time period of photopic light, followed by emitting a first time period of scotopic light, followed by emitting a second time period of photopic light, and followed by emitting a second time period of scotopic light; wherein a first transition from the first time period of photopic light to the first time period of scotopic light is different compared to a second transition from the second time period of photopic light to the second time period of scotopic light, and/or wherein a third transition from the first time period of scotopic light to the second time period of photopic light is different compared to a fourth transition from the second time period of scotopic light to the first time period of photopic light or a third time period of photopic light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Lucas Josef Maria Schlangen, Rémy Cyrille Broersma
  • Patent number: 11252802
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for an LED luminaire comprises a plurality of LED strings, an anode terminal line, a cathode terminal line, a plurality of first switching elements, connected in series into the anode terminal line and subdivided into individual line sections, and a plurality of second switching elements, connected in series into the cathode terminal line and subdivided into individual line sections. Each of the LED strings may be connected to the anode terminal line via a first switching element and/or the second switching elements. Each of the first switching elements may be configured to feed an operating current to an LED string, to electrically connect line sections if the current flowing through the LED string exceeds a predetermined value, and to electrically isolate line sections if the current flowing through the LED string falls below a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Fischer, Felix Franck
  • Patent number: 11233089
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a light emitter including a multiplicity of segments, wherein each segment of the light emitter includes a multiplicity of image points configured to emit light, and an optical element configured to image light emitted by the light emitter into a target region, light emitted by the individual segments of the light emitter is superimposed in the target region, the optical element is subdivided into a number of segments corresponding to a number of segments of the light emitter, each segment of the optical element is respectively arranged over a segment of the light emitter, and the segments of the optical element are respectively configured as double-sided aspherical lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Streppel, Désirée Queren
  • Patent number: 11219105
    Abstract: A circuit includes a primary light emitting diode (LED) string, a secondary LED string, a reference line, and primary and secondary transistors. The primary string includes a voltage drop, and a node disposed between two adjacent LEDs of the primary string. The secondary string is configured in parallel with the primary string. The secondary string has a voltage drop that is less than the primary voltage drop. The reference line is coupled to the node. The primary transistor includes a drain, a gate, and a source. The drain is coupled to a primary string output terminal. The gate is coupled to the reference line, and the source is coupled to a ground. The secondary transistor includes a drain, a gate, and a source. The drain is coupled to a secondary string output terminal. The gate is coupled to the reference line, and the source is coupled to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: VARROC LIGHTING SYSTEMS, S.R.O.
    Inventors: Arturo Hernandez Lopez, Cutberto Medina
  • Patent number: 11212887
    Abstract: A light having a first set of electrically coupled solid state light sources having a first forward voltage drop and a second set of electrically coupled solid state light sources having a second forward voltage at least approximately matching the first forward voltage drop. The first set and second sets of solid state light sources are electrically coupled in parallel to a constant current source. A resistor is electrically coupled to at least one of the first and second sets of solid state light sources. Control circuitry is operably coupled to control a resistance electrically coupled in series with said at least one of the first set and the second set of solid state light sources to adjust a respective current therethrough and thereby dim said at least one of the first set and the second set of solid state light sources while maintaining the respective forward voltage drops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Express Imaging Systems, LLC
    Inventor: William G. Reed
  • Patent number: 11147140
    Abstract: An example aspect of a backlight system of the present invention includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that operate as a light source of a backlight using bus-supplied electric power in which a voltage is changed to one of a plurality of predetermined values as a power source; a plurality of serial connection switches that connect the plurality of light emitting elements in series and disconnect connections among the plurality of light emitting elements; a plurality of parallel connection switches that connect the plurality of light emitting elements in parallel relative to the power source and disconnect the connections among the plurality of light emitting elements; and a control unit that turns on or turns off the plurality of serial connection switches and the plurality of parallel connection switches in accordance with the value of the voltage corresponding to the bus-supplied electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohisa Ukegawa
  • Patent number: 11087704
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel driving circuit is provided. The circuit includes a pulse width modulation integrated circuit, including an input terminal, a first resistor, a second resistor, a comparator, a light-emitting diode, a latch, a RC circuit and a power supply voltage. Wherein the input terminal is connected to a ground terminal through the first resistor and the second resistor which are serially connected, a positive input terminal of the comparator is connected to a reference voltage, and a negative input terminal of the comparator is connected between the first resistor and the second resistor, an anode of the light-emitting diode is connected to an output terminal of the comparator, and a cathode of the light-emitting diode is connected to the latch, and an input terminal and an output terminal of the RC circuit are respectively connected to the power supply voltage and the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11083066
    Abstract: A multiple-output load driving device includes a plurality of output terminals (OUT1 to OUT4) for outputting an output current to each of a plurality of loads (Z1 to Z4), a control portion (8) configured to select either a non-DC current mode in which a non-DC current is used as the output current or a DC current mode in which a DC current is used as the output current, and a first terminal (MSET2). In a case where a low-level signal is supplied to the first terminal, in the non-DC current mode, the non-DC current is outputted from all of the plurality of output terminals. In a case where a high-level signal is supplied to the first terminal, in the non-DC current mode, the DC current is outputted from a predetermined one (OUT4) of the output terminals, while the non-DC current is outputted from the other output terminals (OUT1 to OUT3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Saito, Krishnachandran Krishnan Nair, Mathew George
  • Patent number: 11006499
    Abstract: The invention provides a control method for sets of series-parallel-connected LEDs via a single wire. Step 1: providing an LED circuit including a control module and a light-emitting module. The light-emitting module includes LED strings connected to one another in parallel. Each of the LED strings includes a plurality of LED units connected in series to one another, and at least one counter comprising a counter start time different from that of another. Step 2: sending a setting signal by the control module, and allocating one identification code obtained sequentially in time to one of the LED string according to the different counter start times of the LED strings. Step 3: sending a designation signal to the light-emitting module by the control module, such that the LED string with the corresponding identification value is selected and independently controlled by the control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: ANAPEX TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Tsung-Wen Huang, Shih-Chung Cheng, Chih-Ming Kao
  • Patent number: 11006496
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a filament for LED filament lamp is presented, that includes a light-transmissive substrate; at least one LED die mounted on the light-transmissive substrate; and at least one current regulator mounted on the light-transmissive substrate, wherein the current regulator is connected in series with the at least one LED. In another embodiment, an LED filament lamp is presented, that includes a dimmable LED driver circuit; a first channel LED array with at least two LED die and a first forward voltage drop; and a second channel LED array with at least one LED dies and at least one current regulator to cause a second forward voltage drop of the second channel LED array to increase as current through the second channel LED array increases, wherein the second channel LED array is connected in parallel with the first channel LED array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Pusong An, Wenwen Liu, Ming Chen, Liu Yi
  • Patent number: 10977985
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The display device includes a first light-emitting diode, a first controller, a second light-emitting diode, and a second controller. The first controller has a first current source. The second controller has a second current source, wherein the first current source is coupled to a coupling point of the second light-emitting diode and the second current source. When the first light-emitting diode is normal, the first current source provides a first driving current to drive the first light-emitting diode. When the first light-emitting diode is open, the first current source stops providing the first driving current, and the second current source provides a second driving current to drive the second light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Hsun Yang, Hsiang-Yuan Hsieh, Chin-Tang Chuang
  • Patent number: 10897799
    Abstract: A balance circuit includes a node on which a reference voltage is generated to control current through a first component string and a first resistor connected to the first component string. A stage receives the reference voltage to generate a tracking current through a second component string and a second resistor connected to the second component string, wherein a current through the first component string is uniformly tracked by the tracking current through the second component string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: APOGEE LIGHTING HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Zarcone, James D. Chermak, Fred Katz
  • Patent number: 10834795
    Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight drive circuit, a backlight driving method, and a display device. The backlight drive circuit according to some embodiments of the disclosure includes: a plurality of LED strips configured to be powered in a time-division mode; a discharging circuit connected with anodes of the plurality of LED strips; and a first switch element connected with cathodes of the plurality of LED strips, wherein the first switch element has a first terminal connected with the cathodes of the plurality of LED strips, and a second terminal grounded, and the first switch element is configured to be turned on when any one of the plurality of LED strips is powered on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuxin Zhang, Junxiong Zhang, Qiang Du
  • Patent number: 10827580
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides lighting systems suitable for generating white light. The lighting systems can have a first lighting channel configured to produce a first white light having a first color point and a first spectral power distribution, a second lighting channel configured to produce a second white light having a second color point and a second spectral power distribution, and a control system configured to independently change the intensity of each of the first lighting channel and the second lighting channel. The first lighting channels can have LEDs having an emission with a first peak wavelength of between about 440 nm and about 510 nm. The second lighting channels can have LEDs having an emission with a second peak wavelength of between about 380 nm and about 420 nm. The disclosure provides methods of generating white light using the lighting systems described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: EcoSense Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuram L. V Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: 10791605
    Abstract: A lamp module includes a drive circuit; a first light source; a second light source; and a switching circuit configured to receive a switching signal for indicating switching between a first function and a second function, and to control a first switch and a second switch such that the first switch is in an on state and the second switch is in an off state while the first function is indicated, the first switch is in an off state and the second switch is in an on state while the second function is indicated, and both the first switch and the second switch are in the on states at a time of switching between the first function and the second function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ichikawa, Hironori Tsukamoto