LIGHTING DEVICE AND VOLTAGE REDUCTION METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140103821A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Company Limited (Delta Electronics Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Company Limited (Delta Electronics Incorporated)
• Inventors: Xu, Lizhi, Zhang, Weiqiang, Zhong, Yuanyuan
• Granted Patent: US 8,937,440 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/185.R
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/35 Balancing circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/382 with galvanic isolation between input and output
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/39 Circuits containing inverter bridges
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/46 having LEDs disposed in parallel lines
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/30 Semiconductor lamps, e.g. solid state lamps [SSL] light emitting diodes [LED] or organic LED [OLED]

Abstract

The disclosure provides a lighting device and a voltage reduction method thereof, wherein the lighting device comprises: an AC power supply generator for generating an AC power source to supply power to other accessories and circuits in the lighting device; m load components, every two adjacent load components forming one head common connection point and one end common connection point respectively for each load component from head to end alternatively; and (m−1) current balancing cells each respectively connected between one head common connection point or one end common connection point and one of two output terminals of the AC power supply generator; wherein the m load components comprise (m−n) low impedance load components therein. The present application can reduce the output voltage of the AC power supply generator with lower cost.

Claims

1. A lighting device, comprising:

an AC power supply generator for generating an AC power source so as to supply power to other accessories and circuits of the lighting device;

m load components, wherein a first load component has one end electrically connected to the AC power supply generator and another end electrically connected to one end of a second load component at a first common connection point;

an (i)th load component has one end electrically connected to one end of an (i−

1)th load component at an (i−

1)th common connection point and another end electrically connected to one end of an (i+1)th load component at an (i)th common connection point;

an (m) th load component has one end electrically connected to one end of an adjacent (m−

1)th load component at an (m−

1)th common connection point and another end electrically connected to the AC power supply generator; and

(m−

1) current balancing cells each for balancing the current flowing through two of the load components connected thereto, wherein a first current balancing cell is electrically connected between the AC power supply generator and the first common connection point, an (i−

1)th current balancing cell is electrically connected between the AC power supply generator and the (i−

1)th common connection point, an (i)th current balancing cell is electrically connected between the AC power supply generator and the (i)th common connection point, and an (m−

1)th current balancing cell is electrically connected between the AC power supply generator and the (m−

1)th common connection point;

wherein based on the polarities of the AC power supply generator, every two adjacent load components have opposite polarities and alternatively work in a positive cycle or a negative cycle of the AC power source; and

the m load components comprise (m−

n) low impedance load components therein to reduce the voltage output from the AC power supply generator, wherein m, n and i are positive integers, and m≧

3, m>

n≧

1, m>

i>

1.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the m load components further comprise n illuminant load components therein, each of the low impedance load components has a low impedance load with an impedance value less than that of the illuminant load in any of the illuminant load components.

3. The lighting device according to claim 2, wherein each of the illuminant load components comprises:

an LED group formed of one or more LEDs connected in series with each other;

a filter circuit connected in parallel with the LED group; and

a protection circuit connected in parallel with the LED group.

4. The lighting device according to claim 2, wherein each of the load components comprises a rectifier cell connected in series and in the same polarity with the illuminant load in the illuminant load component or the low impedance load in the low impedance load component.

5. The lighting device according to claim 4, wherein the rectifier cell is a rectifier diode.

6. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein each of the load components has the same current flowing therethrough.

7. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the low impedance load in the low impedance load component is a wire or a forward conductive diode.

8. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein each of the current balancing cells is a capacitor.

9. The lighting device according to claim 2, wherein the (m−

n) low impedance load components are positioned on one side of the n illuminant load components, or the (m−

n) low impedance load components are divided into two groups and respectively positioned on both sides of the n illuminant load components.

10. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the AC power supply generator is made of a resonance DC-AC converter.

11. The lighting device according to claim 10, wherein the resonance DC-AC converter comprises:

a half-bridge switching circuit formed of two switching elements connected in series with each other, for transforming the DC input voltage into DC square waves to be output from a common connection point of the two switching elements; and

a resonance groove formed of a resonance capacitor, a resonance inductance and a transformer connected in series with each other, for receiving the DC square waves from the half-bridge switching circuit and transforming them into an AC current source to be output from a secondary side of the transformer to the load components.

12. The lighting device according to claim 2, wherein when the (m−

n) low impedance load components were not provided, each of the n illuminant load components had a first current flowing therethrough, and the AC power supply generator output a first voltage;

when the (m−

n) low impedance load components are provided, the output current of the AC power supply generator is adjusted to m/n times of the first current, such that each of the m load components has a second current which equals to the first current, and the AC power supply generator outputs a second voltage which is reduced to n/m times of the first voltage.

13. A voltage reduction method for a lighting device, comprising steps of:

providing (m−

n) low impedance load components in m load components to form the lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the low impedance load components are used to reduce the output voltage of the AC power supply generator in the lighting device.

14. The voltage reduction method for a lighting device according to claim 13, further comprising steps of:

providing n illuminant load components in the m load components, wherein when the (m−

n) low impedance load components were not provided, each of the n illuminant load components had a first current flowing therethrough, and the AC power supply generator output a first voltage;

when the (m−

n) low impedance load components are provided, the output current of the AC power supply generator is adjusted to m/n times of the first current, such that each of the m load components has a second current which equals to the first current, and the AC power supply generator outputs a second voltage which is reduced to n/m times of the first voltage.