LED DRIVING CIRCUIT

• US 20100295478A1
• Filed: 02/16/2010
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: CORNELISSEN, Wilhelmus, JIANG, Jack, WANG, Shrek, JIANG, Andrew, WEI, Tian Yi, QIAO, Hai Bo
• Application Number:
  US12/706,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20100295478A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/307
• 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: Y02B 20/30 Semiconductor lamps, e.g. solid state lamps [SSL] light emitting diodes [LED] or organic LED [OLED]

Abstract

The present invention provides a LED driving circuit, which is adapted to be coupled to a power supply via a phase control dimmer. The driving circuit comprises a power switch unit and a control unit, wherein the control unit comprises a first signal sampling module, a frequency converting module, a feedback module and a PWM module, the first signal sampling module being configured to sample a first signal and to provide the first signal to the frequency converting module; the frequency converting module being configured to generate a second signal in response to the first signal and to provide the second signal to the PWM module; and the feedback module being configured to sample a third signal and to provide the third signal to the PWM module; the PWM module being configured to generate a fourth signal in response to the second signal and the third signal, so as to control the output current of the power switch unit, the frequency of the fourth signal being determined by the second signal and the duty cycle of the fourth signal being determined by the third signal.

Claims

1. A LED driving circuit, which is adapted to be coupled to a power supply via a phase control dimmer, comprising a power switch unit and a control unit, the control unit comprising a first signal sampling module, a frequency converting module, a feedback module and a PWM module, wherein

the first signal sampling module is configured to sample a first signal, which signal represents phase modulation information of electric power provided by the power supply when the electric power is modulated by the dimmer, and to provide the first signal to the frequency converting module;

the frequency converting module is configured to generate a second signal in response to the first signal and to provide the second signal to the PWM module, the frequency of the second signal being determined by the average signal intensity of the first signal;

the feedback module is configured to sample a third signal, which signal represents the output current of the power switch unit, and to provide the third signal to the PWM module;

the PWM module is configured to generate a fourth signal in response to the second signal and the third signal, so as to control the output current of the power switch unit, the frequency of the fourth signal being determined by the second signal and the duty cycle of the fourth signal being determined by the third signal.

2. The driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the control unit further comprises a signal processing module configured to receive the first signal sampled by the first signal sampling module and to execute an anti jamming processing on the first signal, and to provide the processed first signal to the frequency converting module.

3. The driving circuit according to claim 2, wherein the anti-jamming processing performed on the first signal comprises adding a direct current signal to the first signal.

4. The driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the control unit further comprises a slope compensation module, configured to receive the first signal sampled by the first signal sampling module and to execute slope compensation on the first signal, and to provide the compensated first signal to the frequency converting module, wherein the slope compensation executed by the slope compensation module when an average signal intensity of the first signal smaller than a first threshold is larger than the slope compensation when the average signal intensity of the first signal larger than the first threshold.

5. The driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the first signal sampling module comprises a first impedance element and a second impedance element connected in series, and the first signal is sampled from the joint between the first and the second impedance elements.

6. The driving circuit according to claim 5, wherein the first signal sampling module further comprises a Zener diode, which is connected in series with the first and the second impedance elements.

7. The driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the frequency converting module comprises a RC network and a first comparator, wherein the first comparator adjusts impedance and/or capacitance of the RC network in accordance with a comparison between the first signal and an output signal of the RC network, so as to adjust the frequency of the second signal.

8. The driving circuit according to claim 7, wherein the RC network comprises a third impedance element and a first switching element, wherein the first comparator controls whether the third impedance element is coupled to the RC network or not by means of controlling whether the first switching element is in the On or Off state.

9. The driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the driving circuit further comprises a current compensation unit which comprises a second signal sampling module, a latching current compensation module, a holding current compensation module and a logic control module, wherein

the second signal sampling module is configured to sample a fifth signal and a sixth signal, which both represent the phase modulation information of the electric power provided by the power supply when the electric power is modulated by the dimmer, and to provide the fifth signal to the latching current compensation module, and to provide the sixth signal to the holding current compensation module;

the latching current compensation module is configured to operate when the fifth signal is below a second threshold, so as to provide a compensated latching current for the dimmer;

the holding current compensation module is configured to operate when the sixth signal is below a third threshold, so as to provide a compensated holding current for the dimmer;

is the logic control module is configured to control the holding current compensation module so as to be idle when the latching current compensation module is in operation, and to control the latching current compensation module so as to be idle when the holding current compensation module is in operation.

10. The driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the driving circuit comprises a rectifier unit and an impedance unit, wherein the impedance unit is located between the rectifier unit and the power supply and comprises at least one set of impedance elements whose impedance is more than 30 ohm.

11. The driving circuit according to claim 10, wherein the impedance unit comprises two sets of impedance elements, the two sets respectively coupling to different output terminals of the power supply.

12. The driving circuit according to claim 11, wherein at least one set of the two sets of impedance elements comprises a fuse resistor.

13. The driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the driving circuit further comprises a rectifier unit and an electromagnetic interference filtering unit, wherein the electromagnetic interference filtering unit comprises a first set of capacitors which are coupled between output terminals of the rectifier unit.

14. The driving circuit according to claim 13, wherein the electromagnetic interference filtering unit further comprises a second set of capacitors, wherein the second set of capacitors are coupled between input terminals of the rectifier unit and the capacitance of the second set of capacitors is larger than that of the first set of capacitors.