LIGHTING DEVICE, LIGHTING CONTROL DEVICE AND LIGHTING SYSTEM

• US 20130099678A1
• Filed: 10/17/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: SAEKI, Koji, KANDA, Takashi, HIROWATARI, Yuichirou, KATO, Junichi, KURIHARA, Shinichiro, MANNAMI, Tomoaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,779,670 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/159
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 1/0228 Control of working procedures; Failure detection; Spectral bandwidth calculation
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 1/044 using shutters
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 1/44 Electric circuits for command of an exposure part G03B7/02
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0025 Living bodies ear thermometers G01J5/0011; detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0804 Shutters
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/34 using capacitors, e.g. pyroelectric capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/10 Controlling the light source

Abstract

A lighting device includes a pyroelectric sensor, a shutter and a lighting control unit. The lighting control unit is configured, when the lighting load is turned off, to turn the lighting load on if the pyroelectric sensor detects a change in infrared radiation. The lighting control unit is also configured, when the lighting load is turned on, to turn the lighting load off if a repetition count or time of a lighting retention time reaches a specified count or time, respectively, with no change in infrared radiation detected through the pyroelectric sensor within each lighting retention time per the passage of lighting retention time.

Claims

1. A lighting device, comprising:

a pyroelectric sensor configured to detect a change in infrared radiation;

a shutter configured to keep the infrared radiation out of the pyroelectric sensor;

a lighting control unit configured to control a lighting load; and

a shutter control unit configured, when the lighting load is turned on, to control the shutter per the passage of first time period so that the shutter closes and then opens for a second time period shorter than the first time period,

wherein the lighting control unit is configured;

(a), when the lighting load is turned off, to turn the lighting load on if the pyroelectric sensor detects a change in infrared radiation; and

(b), when the lighting load is turned on, to turn the lighting load off if a repetition count or time of the first time period reaches a specified count or time, respectively, with no change in infrared radiation detected through the pyroelectric sensor within each first time period per the passage of first time period.

2. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the lighting control unit is further configured

(c), when the lighting load is turned on, to initialize the repetition count or time if the pyroelectric sensor detect a change in infrared radiation within a current first time period.

3. The lighting device of claim 2, wherein the lighting control unit is further configured

(d), when the lighting load is turned on, to turn the lighting load off if the pyroelectric sensor detects no change in infrared radiation before and after closing and then opening of the shutter.

4. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the first time period is a predetermined lighting retention time for keeping the lighting load turned on.

5. A lighting control device, comprising the lighting control unit and the shutter control unit in the lighting device of claim 1.

6. A lighting system, comprising the lighting device of claim 1 and the lighting load.