POWER CONTROL DEVICE FOR LED LIGHTING AND LIGHTING SYSTEM

• US 20110309769A1
• Filed: 01/24/2011
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. (Minebea Mitsumi, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. (Minebea Mitsumi, Inc.)
• Inventors: Katayama, Takayuki, Sugie, Noboru, Suzuki, Takeshi, Kuroki, Taisuke, Komagata, Masaaki
• Application Number:
  US13/012,093
• Publication Number:
  US 20110309769A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/294
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission

Abstract

A lighting system including a power control device for controlling illuminance of a lighting fixture by outputting current to drive the lighting fixture and controlling the current, a plurality of lighting fixtures each driven to be lit by the power control device, and a switch device incorporating an energy self-supplying unit converting an operating force of a switch button into electric energy. The power control device includes a first circuit section having a receiver for receiving a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and a control signal generating circuit for generating a control signal according to the number of times of reception of the wireless signal and operated by a first power system and a second circuit section operated by a second power system and outputting current according to the control signal from the first circuit section, and the second power system is not operated when not outputting current.

Claims

1. A power control device capable of controlling illuminance of a lighting fixture by outputting current that drives the lighting fixture and controlling the current, comprising:

a first circuit section including a receiver for receiving a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency, a control signal generating circuit for generating a control signal according to the number of times of reception of the wireless signal at the receiver, and a first alternating current-direct current conversion circuit for converting alternating-current voltage into direct-current voltage; and

a second circuit section for generating and outputting current according to the control signal from the first circuit section, the second circuit section including a second alternating current-direct current conversion circuit for converting alternating-current voltage into direct-current voltage,

wherein the first alternating current-direct current conversion circuit is in a state of being operated at all times, and the second alternating current-direct current conversion circuit is operated when outputting driving current for the lighting fixture according to the control signal from the control signal generating circuit and is not operated when not outputting driving current.

2. The power control device according to claim 1, wherein illuminance of the lighting fixture is changed by changing the magnitude of driving current for the lighting fixture to be output from the second circuit section according to the number of times of reception of the wireless signal.

3. The power control device according to claim 1,

wherein the lighting fixture is an LED lamp incorporating a red LED, a blue LED, and a green LED,

wherein the second circuit section is configured to be capable of outputting respective driving currents for the respective colors of the LED lamp, and

wherein the second circuit section is capable of changing an emission color of the lighting fixture by changing the number and combination of the driving currents to be output according to the number of times of reception of the wireless signal at the receiver.

4. The power control device according to claim 1, wherein the control signal generating circuit includes:

a counter for counting the number of times of reception of the wireless signal; and

a decoder for decoding a value of the counter to generate the control signal.

5. The power control device according to claim 1, wherein the control signal generating circuit includes:

a counter capable of automatic incremental update and decremental update;

a conversion circuit configured to convert a value of the counter to generate the control signal; and

a counter operation control section configured to change the operation state of the counter in response to reception of the wireless signal at the receiver.

6. The power control device according to claim 1, wherein the control signal generating circuit includes:

a storage unit that has stored therein an ID code,

an identify section for identifying an ID code contained in the wireless signal received at the receiver, and

a counter operation control section for changing the operation state of the counter in a change mode associated with the ID code contained in the wireless signal received at the receiver.

7. A lighting system comprising:

the power control device according to claim 1;

a lighting fixture driven to be lit by the power control device; and

a switch device incorporating a switch button and an energy self-supplying unit converting an operating force of the switch button into electric energy,

wherein the switch device includes a transmitter capable of transmitting a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and is configured to transmit the wireless signal when the switch button is operated.

8. A lighting system comprising:

a plurality of switch devices each incorporating a switch button and an energy self-supplying unit converting an operating force of the switch button into electric energy;

a plurality of lighting fixtures; and

the power control devices according to claim 6 provided to correspond respectively to the plurality of lighting fixtures,

wherein each of the plurality of switch devices is configured to be capable of transmitting a wireless signal containing a unique ID code, and each of the power control devices changes driving current to be output to the corresponding lighting fixture when receiving the wireless signal containing a predetermined ID code.

9. The lighting system according to claim 8, wherein the power control device includes a transmitter for transmitting a wireless signal containing the ID code contained in the wireless signal received at the receiver.

10. The lighting system according to claim 7, wherein the switch device is configured as a device incorporating the energy self-supplying unit in a portable-size casing and provided with the switch button on the surface of the casing.