RESISTIVE BYPASS FOR SERIES LIGHTING CIRCUIT

• US 20110062875A1
• Filed: 11/16/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seasonal Specialties LLC (Seasonal Specialties)
• Original Assignee: Seasonal Specialties LLC (Seasonal Specialties)
• Inventors: Altamura, Steven J.
• Application Number:
  US12/947,488
• Publication Number:
  US 20110062875A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/192
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 9/00 Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture , installation, removal, maintenance of electric discharge tubes, discharge lamps, or parts thereof; Recovery of material from discharge tubes or lamps
• CPC Class Codes: H01K 3/00 Apparatus or processes adapted to the manufacture, installing, removal, or maintenance of incandescent lamps or parts thereof manufacture of vessels from glass C03B
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 39/041 the light-intensity of the source H05B39/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/23 of two or more light sources connected in series

Abstract

A resistor bypass circuit for a series lighting circuit includes a plurality of serially connected light sources and a bypass resistor being connected in parallel with at least one of the respective light sources, each respective light source being low wattage and being capable operating on a one hundred percent duty cycle as desired.

Claims

1. A resistor bypass circuit for a series lighting circuit comprising a plurality of serially connected light sources and a bypass resistor being connected in parallel with at least one of the respective light sources, each respective light source low wattage and being capable operating on a one hundred percent duty cycle as desired.

2. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 1, where the circuit is series-parallel connected.

3. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 1, the light source being an incandescent bulb.

4. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 1, the light source being a semiconductor.

5. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 1, the light source being an LED.

6. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 4, the light source the semiconductor light source providing a twinkling effect.

7. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 6, the semiconductor light source utilizing electronic circuits that control the flashing rate of the light source, which would only affect the individual lighting element as the resistive bypass would allow current to continue to flow in remaining lighting elements in the series circuit.

8. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 6, the electronic circuits being LED packages that incorporate integrated circuits (ICs)

9. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 5, the light source being a semiconductor light source for providing color changing characteristics.

10. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 9, the semiconductor light source utilizing LED packages that incorporate two or more LED chips, and an integrated circuit (IC), the integrated circuit controlling each LED chip in respective LED packages independently.

11. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 10, the IC controlling the current and/or voltage to the individual LED chips in the LED package, the control providing for the mixing of the LED chip colors to get various resultant colors.

12. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 11, the control only affecting individual lighting element, the bypass resistor providing for current continuing to flow in remaining lighting elements in the series circuit.

13. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 1, a respective resistive bypass resistor being connected in parallel with more than one light source, the failure of one of the light sources thereby only affecting a limited number of the plurality of light sources.

14. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 1 being utilized in AC or DC circuits powered form a power source selected from the list consisting of batteries, step down transformers, AC utility power, or converters from AC to DC or DC to AC power, pulsed DC, and filtered or unfiltered DC, or partially filtered AC.

15. A resistor bypass circuit for a series lighting circuit comprising a plurality of serially connected incandescent light sources and a bypass resistor being connected in parallel with at least one of the respective light sources, each respective light source being low wattage when conducting and being capable operating on a one hundred percent duty cycle as desired.

16. The resistor bypass circuit of claim 15, where the circuit is series-parallel connected.

17. A method of forming a resistor bypass circuit for a series lighting circuit comprising the steps of serially connecting a plurality of light sources, connecting a bypass resistor in parallel with at least one of the respective light sources, and to be capable of operating on a one hundred percent duty cycle as desired.

18. The method of claim 17, including forming the light source of an incandescent bulb.

19. The method of claim 17, including forming the light source of a semiconductor.

20. The method of claim 19, including forming the light source of an LED.

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