Lighting apparatus

• US 9,232,616 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2014
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hiramatu, Akinori, Kido, Hiroshi, Hasegawa, Junichi, Ido, Shigeru, Ueda, Daisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DON P
• Application Number:
  US14/512,722
• Publication Number:
  US 20150145433A1
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 315/291, 315/297, 315/307, 315/209.R
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/10 Controlling the intensity of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/14 using electrical feedback from LEDs or from LED modules
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/38 using boost topology
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/385 using flyback topology
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/50 responsive to malfunctions or undesirable behaviour of LEDs; responsive to LED life; Protective circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission

Abstract

A lighting apparatus includes a light source module and a power supply module. The light source module includes an electrical light source and a transmitter circuit configured to transmit a wireless signal containing information about the light source. The power supply module is connected to the light source module and includes a power supply circuit configured to generate electric power for the light source, a receiver circuit configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted from the transmitter circuit, and a control circuit configured to control the power supply circuit in accordance with the wireless signal received through the receiver circuit.

Claims

1. A lighting apparatus, comprising:

a light source module comprising an electrical light source and a transmitter circuit configured to transmit a wireless signal containing information about the light source; and

a power supply module that is connected to the light source module and comprises a power supply circuit configured to generate electric power for the light source, a receiver circuit configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted from the transmitter circuit, and a control circuit configured to control the power supply circuit in accordance with the wireless signal received through the receiver circuit,

wherein the wireless signal represents a characteristic of the light source, and

the light source module comprises a switch configured to stop power supply to the transmitter circuit after the wireless signal is transmitted.

2. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wireless signal represents at least one of a malfunction of the light source, a temperature of the light source, and a cumulative lighting time of the light source.

3. A lighting apparatus, comprising:

a light source module comprising an electrical light source and a transmitter circuit configured to transmit a wireless signal containing information about the light source; and

a power supply module that is connected to the light source module and comprises a power supply circuit configured to generate electric power for the light source, a receiver circuit configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted from the transmitter circuit, and a control circuit configured to control the power supply circuit in accordance with the wireless signal received through the receiver circuit,

wherein

the light source module of the lighting apparatus is one of different light source modules of which rated outputs are different from each other,

the transmitter circuit is configured to transmit a wireless signal representing a rated output of the light source module of the lighting apparatus,

the control circuit is configured to control the power supply circuit so that the power supply circuit outputs electric power corresponding to a rated output of a minimum light source module of the different light source modules until the receiver circuit receives the wireless signal, the minimum light source module being a light source module, having a minimum rated output, of the different light source modules, and

the control circuit is configured to control the power supply circuit so that after the receiver circuit receives the wireless signal, the power supply circuit outputs electric power;

corresponding to the rated output represented by the wireless signal;

or

corresponding to a value in a range of which maximum value is set to the rated output represented by the wireless signal.

4. The lighting apparatus of claim 3, wherein the wireless signal represents a characteristic of the light source.

5. The lighting apparatus of claim 3, wherein the wireless signal represents at least one of a malfunction of the light source, a temperature of the light source, and a cumulative lighting time of the light source.