Power Management Unit with Temperature Protection

• US 20110001438A1
• Filed: 07/01/2010
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OSRAM Sylvania Inc. (Ams-Osram AG)
• Original Assignee: Digital Lumens, Inc. (Ams-Osram AG)
• Inventors: Chemel, Brian J., Kondo, Steve T., Piepgras, Colin, Johnston, Scott D.
• Granted Patent: US 8,754,589 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/297
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention, a method and system is provided for designing improved intelligent, LED-based lighting systems. The LED based lighting systems may include fixtures with one or more of rotatable LED light bars, integrated sensors, onboard intelligence to receive signals from the LED light bars and control the LED light bars, and a mesh network connectivity to other fixtures.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

powering a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) light bars with a power management unit;

determining temperature associated with at least one of the plurality of LED light bars; and

assessing the temperature to identify a lighting power management parameter to be adjusted to facilitate temperature protection of an LED light bar.