LED driving device of overvoltage protection and duty control

• US 20070247450A1
• Filed: 04/23/2007
• Published: 10/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Lee, Sang Yun
• Granted Patent: US 7,423,389 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/10 Controlling the intensity of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/38 using boost topology
• 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 driving device comprises a PWM IC including an RT/CT terminal operated by a power voltage and generating and outputting a sawtooth wave voltage of a predetermined frequency, a COMP terminal to which a comparison voltage compared with the sawtooth wave voltage is inputted, and an output terminal generating and outputting a pulse signal turned off in a section in which a level of the sawtooth wave voltage is higher than a level of the comparison voltage and turned on in a section in which the level of the sawtooth voltage is lower than the level of the comparison voltage. The LED driving device sets up the comparison voltage inputted to the COMP terminal of the PWM IC to be 0 when an error voltage corresponding to a difference between a both end voltage of an LED array and a predetermined reference voltage is less than a predetermined level.

Claims

1. An light emitting diode driving device comprising:

an LED array comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes electrically connected to each other;

a pulse with modulation IC comprising an RT/CT terminal operated by a power voltage and generating and outputting a sawtooth wave voltage of a predetermined frequency, a COMP terminal to which a comparison voltage compared with the sawtooth wave voltage is inputted, and an output terminal generating and outputting a pulse signal turned off in a section in which a level of the sawtooth wave voltage is higher than a level of the comparison voltage and turned on in a section in which the level of the sawtooth voltage is lower than the level of the comparison voltage;

a switching portion switching and providing an inputted DC voltage to the light emitting diode array as a driving voltage, according to the pulse signal outputted from the pulse with modulation IC;

a voltage detector generating a detection voltage corresponding to a both end voltage of the light emitting diode array;

a voltage comparator comparing the detection voltage with a predetermined reference voltage and outputting a first error voltage corresponding to a difference between the detection voltage and the reference voltage; and

a comparison voltage setting portion setting up the comparison voltage inputted to the COMP terminal of the pulse with modulation IC to be 0V when the error voltage is less than a predetermined level.

2. The light emitting diode driving device of claim 1, wherein the voltage comparator comprises a first OP amplifier receiving the detection voltage via an inverting input terminal, receiving the reference voltage via a non-inverting input terminal, and outputting the first error voltage corresponding to the difference between the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting input terminal.

3. The light emitting diode driving device of claim 2, wherein the comparison voltage setting portion comprises:

a first diode whose cathode is connected to an output terminal of the first OP amplifier;

a resistor whose one terminal is connected to the power voltage and another terminal is connected to an anode of the first diode;

a second OP amplifier, whose non-inverting input terminal is connected to the anode of the first diode and electrically connected to an output terminal, having an output whose level is identical with an input voltage of the non-inverting input terminal; and

a PNP transistor whose base is connected to the output terminal of the second OP amplifier, emitter is connected to the COMP terminal of the pulse with modulation IC, and collector is connected to a ground.

4. The light emitting diode driving device of claim 3, further comprising a third OP amplifier receiving a voltage whose level corresponds to one of a linear dimming signal and a pulse with modulation dimming signal from outside, via a non-inverting input terminal, receiving a voltage whose level corresponds to a current outputted from a cathode terminal of the light emitting diode array via an inverting input terminal, comparing the level of the voltage inputted to the non-inverting input terminal with the level of the voltage inputted to the inverting input terminal, and outputting a second error voltage corresponding to a difference between the two levels via an output terminal,

wherein the comparison voltage setting portion further comprises a second diode whose cathode is connected to the output terminal of the third OP amplifier and anode is connected to the anode of the first diode.