LED lighting system

• US 10,334,680 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2018
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lynk Labs, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Lynk Labs, Inc.
• Inventors: Miskin, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Monica C
• Application Number:
  US16/102,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20190150239A1
• Time in Patent Office: 316 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/00 Circuit arrangements for operating light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/10 Controlling the intensity of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/14 using electrical feedback from LEDs or from LED modules
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/30 Driver circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/37 Converter circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/40 Details of LED load circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/42 Antiparallel configurations
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/50 responsive to malfunctions or undesirable behaviour of LEDs; responsive to LED life; Protective circuits
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/30 Semiconductor lamps, e.g. solid state lamps [SSL] light emitting diodes [LED] or organic LED [OLED]

Abstract

An LED lighting system having at least one LED circuit and at least two circuits or drivers capable of receiving an AC voltage at a first frequency and having an output capable of driving the at least one LED circuit, wherein the output of each circuit or driver capable of driving the at least one LED circuit is provided to the at least one LED circuit through a circuit or sensor capable of permitting only a single output from the at least two circuits or drivers be provided to the at least one LED circuit.

Claims

1. A LED lighting system comprising:

at least a first LED driver circuit and a second LED driver circuit, wherein at least one of the driver circuits is configured to operate at multiple AC voltage levels, and wherein at least one of the LED driver circuits is configured to be electrically connected to and from one or more LEDs;

the first LED driver circuit having an input for receiving an AC voltage and frequency from an AC power source;

the second LED driver circuit having an input for receiving an AC voltage and frequency from an AC power source; and

a controller for controlling when the first LED driver circuit output and the second LED driver circuit output is connected to the one or more LEDs.

2. A LED lighting system comprising:

at least a first LED driver circuit and a second LED driver circuit, wherein at least one of the driver circuits is configured to operate on one of multiple voltage level inputs, and wherein at least one of the LED driver circuits is configured to be electrically connected to and from one or more LEDs;

the first LED driver circuit having an input for receiving a voltage from a power source;

the second LED driver circuit having an input for receiving a voltage from the same power source; and

a controller for controlling when the first LED driver circuit output and the second LED driver circuit output is connected to the one or more LEDs.