Dimmer
    1.
    发明授权
    Dimmer 有权

    公开(公告)号:US10743381B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-11

    申请号:US16701699

    申请日:2019-12-03

    IPC分类号: H05B33/08 H05B45/14 H05B45/31

    摘要: Various embodiments include a dimmer for controlling the power consumption of a connectable load. The dimmer includes: two parallel-connected, electrically isolated dimmer channels with control devices; a main control device for the channels; a communication link from the main control device to the channel control devices; and a communication link transmitting information from a first dimmer channel to a second dimmer channel. At least one of the two dimmer channels comprises a measurement device generating information about behavior of the electricity at a location in the measurement dimmer channel. The communication link transmits that information. Starting from the measurement dimmer channel, a channel communication link leads in each case from one dimmer channel to the next dimmer channel. The dimmer determines whether respective times of respective zero crossings of a sinusoidal AC voltage applied to the respective dimmer channel are substantially synchronous.

    Dimmer system
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11032883B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-08

    申请号:US16643945

    申请日:2018-08-09

    IPC分类号: H05B45/18 H05B33/08 H05B39/04

    摘要: Various embodiments may include a dimmer system for controlling the power consumption of a load that can be connected with parallel-connected galvanically isolated dimming channels. The dimmer system may include a plurality of dimming channels, each dimming channel including a sensor for monitoring a temperature of associated switch elements; and a control unit for each dimming channel, the control units configured to shift a respective dimming edge based at least in part on the temperature to distribute power dissipation of the connected load substantially equally across the plurality of dimming channels.