LIGHT EMITTING DIODE LIGHTING DEVICE DRIVEN BY A UNIFORM ALTERNATING CURRENT

• US 20110291582A1
• Filed: 09/22/2010
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Champion Elite Company Limited, Midas Wei Trading Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Champion Elite Company Limited, Midas Wei Trading Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Liu, Yuan-Ping, WEI, Tao-Chin
• Application Number:
  US12/888,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20110291582A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/254
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/35 Balancing circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/36 Circuits for reducing or suppressing harmonics, ripples or electromagnetic interferences [EMI]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/38 using boost topology
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/395 Linear regulators
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/42 Antiparallel configurations

Abstract

The invention is disclosed a lighting device using an alternating current to drive light emitting diodes (LEDs). The lighting device uses at least two parallel-connected LED modules. In front of each LED module has connected to a current balancing unit in series that has same capacitance or inductance. The LED module comprises a first polarity LED bar and a second polarity LED bar connected in parallel. The LED module receives an alternating current voltage from the current balancing unit, which alternatively drive the first polarity LED bar and the second polarity LED bar. The light device uses different impedances of the current balancing unit and the LED to provide smooth and uniform current to the LED module and achieves a stable luminance.

Claims

1. A light emitting diode (LED) lighting device driven by a uniform alternating current, comprising:

at least two LED modules, each of the LED modules comprising a first polarity LED bar and a second polarity LED bar coupled in parallel; and

at least two current balancing units, each of the current balancing units being electrically connected to individual the LED module, receiving a sinusoidal AC voltage to alternative driving the first LED bar and the second LED bar.

2. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two current balancing units are two current balancing inductors.

3. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two current balancing units are two current balancing capacitors.

4. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a resonant circuit, the resonant being electrically connected to the two current balancing units, the resonant receiving an square wave pulsing signal, resonating the square wave pulsing signal to form the alternatively voltage and providing the alternatively voltage to the two current balancing units.

5. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the resonant circuit is a half bridge resonant circuit that comprises a resonant capacitor and a resonant inductor, the resonant inductor is connected to the resonant capacitor and the two current balancing units in series.

6. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the resonant circuit is a half bridge resonant circuit that comprises a resonant capacitor and a resonant inductor, the resonant inductor is connected to the resonant capacitor in series and then to the two current balancing unit in parallel.

7. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the resonant circuit is a full bridge resonant circuit that comprises two resonant capacitors and two resonant inductors, each resonant inductor is connected respectively to the resonant capacitor and the two current balancing units in series.

8. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the resonant circuit is a full bridge resonant circuit that comprises two resonant capacitors and two resonant inductors, each resonant inductor is connected to the resonant capacitor in series first and then to the LED modules in parallel.

9. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a transformer that comprises a primary side and a secondary side, wherein the resonant circuit is located on the primary side, the two current balancing units and the two LED modules is located on the secondary side.

10. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the AC voltage output in positive half cycle is used to drive the first polarity LED bar, which in negative half cycle is used to drive the second polarity LED bar.