Lighting circuit with internal reference thresholds for hybrid dimming

    公开(公告)号:US10178729B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-08

    申请号:US15655010

    申请日:2017-07-20

    Abstract: A lighting circuit includes a light emitting diode (LED), a transistor that controls a current through the LED, and a lighting controller integrated circuit (IC) that controls the transistor to vary a brightness of the LED. The controller IC has a dimming pin that receives a dimming signal. The controller IC generates a low reference threshold and a high reference threshold that follow the dimming signal. The lighting controller IC controls the transistor by hysteretic control by comparing a sense signal indicative of the current through the LED to the low reference threshold and the high reference threshold.

    Control system for phase-cut dimming

    公开(公告)号:US10412798B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-10

    申请号:US15835119

    申请日:2017-12-07

    Abstract: A phase-cut dimming control system according to the embodiment includes a phase angle detector configured to detect a phase angle of an input voltage generated by phase-cut dimming, a feedback signal generator configured to generate a first reference signal corresponding to the detected phase angle, and generate an initial feedback signal based on a detection signal corresponding to power supplied to a load and the first reference signal, a feedback signal modulator configured to modulate the initial feedback signal and generate a feedback signal, a power transmission controller configured to generate a control signal which controls power transmission according to the feedback signal, and a power transmission circuit configured to transmit power to the load according to the control signal.

    Hybrid dimming for lighting circuits

    公开(公告)号:US10091849B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-02

    申请号:US15655025

    申请日:2017-07-20

    Abstract: A lighting circuit includes a light emitting diode (LED), a transistor that controls a current through the LED, and a controller integrated circuit (IC) that controls the transistor to vary a brightness of the LED. The controller IC has a dimming pin that receives a hybrid dimming signal from a dimming input circuit. The dimming input circuit receives pulse width modulation (PWM) dimming signals and generates the hybrid dimming signal as a PWM dimming signal, an analog dimming signal, or both depending on the received PWM dimming signals.

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