LIGHT ADJUSTING CIRCUIT

• US 20130278062A1
• Filed: 04/19/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2012
• 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: WEI, Tao-Chin, YU, Kuo-Yi
• Application Number:
  US13/866,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20130278062A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/33
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/10 Controlling the intensity of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/10 Controlling the light source

Abstract

A light adjusting circuit, it provide power required for an overall operation of light adjusting circuit, and it utilizes a light adjusting controller to perform light adjusting of load. During light adjusting, in case operating voltage of a driving controller is equal to or greater than a threshold value, then a rectifier or a power controller provides a first power supply to driving controller through an AC voltage adjusted by light adjusting controller, so that it can regulate a driving voltage through power controller based on DC voltage variation, to drive a load. Otherwise, in case operating voltage of driving controller is less than threshold value, it is switched to a battery to provide a second power supply to driving controller, to make it have stable operating voltage, control power controller to output driving voltage to load, to eliminate blinking of load when conduction angle is small.

Claims

1. A light adjusting circuit, comprising:

a light adjusting cont oiler, used to receive a first AC voltage and an illumination regulation signal, to regulate said first AC voltage based on said illumination regulation signal, and to output a second AC voltage;

a rectifier, connected to said light adjusting controller, to convert said second AC voltage into a DC voltage;

a power controller, connected to said rectifier and a load, to receive said DC voltage and output a driving voltage to drive said load;

a driving controller, connected to said rectifier and said power controller, so that when operating voltage of said driving controller is equal to or greater than a threshold value, said rectifier or said power controller provides a first power supply to said driving controller by means of said second AC voltage, to make said driving controller regulate said driving voltage through said power controller as based on DC voltage variations; and

a battery, connected to said driving controller, and it provides a second power supply to said driving controller, when its operating voltage is less than said threshold value, to regulate said driving voltage through said power controller.

2. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first power supply is a DC power supply.

4. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein a range of said threshold value is 7.2V to 8.8V.

5. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein when said operating voltage of said driving controller is equal to or greater than said threshold value, said battery is charged by said first power supply at the same time.

6. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said battery is incorporated into said driving controller.

7. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said battery is a rechargeable battery.

8. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said illumination regulation signal is a voltage conduction angle variation signal.

9. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said load is an energy saving light bulb, a light-emitting-diode (LED), or a gas discharge lamp.

10. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said light adjusting controller is a Triode for Alternating Current (TRIAC).

3. The light adjusting circuit as claimed in claim I, further comprising an AC power supply, connected to said light adjusting controller, to provide said first AC voltage to said light adjusting controller.