公开(公告)号：US6046550A

公开(公告)日：2000-04-04

申请号：US334087

申请日：1999-06-16

申请人： Jonathan H. Ference ,  Donald F. Hausman ,  John F. Loar ,  Robert S. Spehalski ,  Walter S. Zaharchuk

发明人： Jonathan H. Ference ,  Donald F. Hausman ,  John F. Loar ,  Robert S. Spehalski ,  Walter S. Zaharchuk

IPC分类号： H05B37/02 ,  H05B39/08

CPC分类号： H05B39/08 ,  H05B37/02 ,  H05B37/0254 ,  H05B37/029 ,  H05B39/086 ,  Y10S315/04

摘要： A diagnostic apparatus for use in a light dimming circuit of the tape which selectively controls the current flow through a lighting load to adjust its luminous output. The dimming circuit has a controllably conductive device, such as a triac, connectable in series between an A.C. power source and a lighting load, and a control circuit which responds to a dimming level control signal to selectively apply a selected portion of an A.C. voltage waveform produced by the A.C. power source to the lighting load to adjust the RMS voltage across the load. The selected portion is determined by a firing angle at which the control circuit causes the controllably conductive device to conduct power during each half cycle of the A.C. waveform. The diagnostic appararus has a senior to sense the operating status of a component of the dimming circuit and/or the presence of the dimming level control signal. A logic circuit compares an output of the sensor to provide an indication of the present operating status of The component and/or the presence of the dimming level control signal. A status indicator responds to the output of the logic circuit to provide a visual indication of a change in status of the component and/or presence of the dimming control signal.

摘要翻译： 一种用于光带调光电路的诊断装置，其选择性地控制通过照明负载的电流以调节其发光输出。 调光电路具有串联连接在AC电源和照明负载之间的可控导电器件，例如三端双向可控硅开关，以及控制电路，其响应于调光电平控制信号，以选择性地施加AC电压波形的选定部分 由交流电源产生的照明负载来调整负载上的有效值电压。 所选择的部分由触发角确定，在该触发角处控制电路使可控导电器件在交流波形的每个半周期期间导通电力。 诊断仪器有一名高级人员来感测调光电路的部件的运行状态和/或调光电平控制信号的存在。 逻辑电路比较传感器的输出以提供组件的当前操作状态的指示和/或调光电平控制信号的存在。 状态指示符响应逻辑电路的输出，以提供组件的状态改变和/或调光控制信号的存在的可视指示。

公开(公告)号：US5949200A

公开(公告)日：1999-09-07

申请号：US688500

申请日：1996-07-30

申请人： Jonathan H. Ference ,  Frederick J. Lind, III ,  Robert Paul Stocker

发明人： Jonathan H. Ference ,  Frederick J. Lind, III ,  Robert Paul Stocker

IPC分类号： G05B11/36 ,  H05B37/02 ,  H05B37/00

CPC分类号： H05B37/02 ,  H05B37/029 ,  Y10S315/04 ,  Y10T307/832

摘要： A wall mountable control panel for controlling power levels delivered to electrical loads, such as lighting loads defining zones, has a zone select switch for scrolling through multiple zones, so as to permit a single control unit (having a power level adjustment switch and a power level display for one zone) in the control panel to be used to separately adjust the power level for, and separately display the power level of, more than one zone. The control panel is capable of controlling M times N zones, where N is the number of control units in the control panel, and where M represents the number of selections that can be made by the zone select switch.

摘要翻译： 用于控制传递到电负载（例如定义区域的照明负载）的功率水平的壁挂式控制面板具有用于滚动穿过多个区域的区域选择开关，以允许单个控制单元（具有功率水平调节开关和功率 用于一个区域的电平显示），用于分别调整多个区域的功率电平，并分别显示功率电平。 控制面板能够控制M次N区，其中N是控制面板中控制单元的数量，M表示区域选择开关可进行的选择次数。

公开(公告)号：US5808417A

公开(公告)日：1998-09-15

申请号：US650076

申请日：1996-05-17

申请人： Jonathan H. Ference ,  Donald F. Hausman ,  John F. Loar ,  Robert S. Spehalski ,  Walter S. Zaharchuk

发明人： Jonathan H. Ference ,  Donald F. Hausman ,  John F. Loar ,  Robert S. Spehalski ,  Walter S. Zaharchuk

IPC分类号： F21S10/00 ,  H05B37/02 ,  H05B39/08 ,  H01J7/24

CPC分类号： H05B39/086 ,  H05B37/02 ,  H05B37/0254 ,  H05B37/029 ,  H05B39/08 ,  Y10S315/04

摘要： A dimmer panel for controlling the intensity of a plurality of electric light sources includes a plurality of dimming circuits. Each dimming circuit has a control circuit, a heat producing controllably conductive power switch such as a triac, and a heat producing coil such as a choke. The power switches and coils are arranged on a corrugated heat sink to minimize component temperatures in the dimming control circuit and of the power switches. The heat producing coils are remotely located from the control circuit and the power switches, so that the heat generated by the coils does not increase the temperature of the components in the control circuit or of the power switches.

摘要翻译： 用于控制多个电光源的强度的调光面板包括多个调光电路。 每个调光电路具有控制电路，诸如三端双向可控硅开关之类的发热可控导电功率开关和诸如扼流圈的发热线圈。 功率开关和线圈布置在瓦楞散热片上，以最小化调光控制电路和电源开关中的组件温度。 发热线圈远离控制电路和电源开关，从而线圈产生的热量不会增加控制电路或电源开关中组件的温度。

公开(公告)号：US5430356A

公开(公告)日：1995-07-04

申请号：US131825

申请日：1993-10-05

申请人： Jonathan H. Ference ,  Frederick J. Lind, III

发明人： Jonathan H. Ference ,  Frederick J. Lind, III

IPC分类号： H05B37/02 ,  H05B39/08 ,  G05F1/00

CPC分类号： H05B39/08 ,  Y10S315/04 ,  Y10S315/07

摘要： A lighting control system is adapted to dim a plurality of groups of light sources in a room to any one of a number of different preset levels to achieve a like number of different lighting scenes. Each group of light sources defines a lighting zone of the same type of light source, for example, incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, neon lights, etc. The system includes a plurality of dimmers for adjusting the respective light levels of the different lighting zones, and a display panel for displaying the instantaneous light level of each zone. According to the invention, a suitably programmed microprocessor or the like operates to normalize the system's dimming performance for a plurality of different types of light sources so that a given change in dimmer setting produces the same change in perceived light level from each of the different types of light sources. Preferably, a system user inputs the type of light source used in each zone by a software scheme that operates the light level indicators of the display panel in an alternative mode to indicate the various types of light sources.

摘要翻译： 照明控制系统适于将房间中的多组光源变暗到多个不同预设级别中的任何一个，以实现相同数量的不同照明场景。 每组光源限定相同类型的光源的照明区域，例如白炽灯，荧光灯，霓虹灯等。该系统包括多个调光器，用于调节不同照明区域的各个光级， 以及用于显示每个区域的瞬时光级的显示面板。 根据本发明，适当编程的微处理器等用于对多个不同类型的光源的系统的调光性能进行归一化，使得给定的调光器设置的变化从每种不同类型产生感知光级别的相同变化 的光源。 优选地，系统用户通过以替代模式操作显示面板的光级指示器的软件方案来输入在每个区域中使用的光源的类型，以指示各种类型的光源。