Driving circuit for a light emitting component including a control circuit and a boost converter circuit

• US 9,839,078 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2015
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Leh Chu Enterprise Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Wen-Chin Shiau
• Inventors: Shiau, Wen-Chin
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Tung X
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG
• Application Number:
  US14/689,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20160050727A1
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/00 Automatic systems in which deviations of an electric quantity from one or more predetermined values are detected at the output of the system and fed back to a device within the system to restore the detected quantity to its predetermined value or values, i.e. retroactive systems
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/38 using boost topology
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/20 Responsive to malfunctions or to light source life; for protection

Abstract

A driving circuit includes a control circuit and a boost converter circuit. The control circuit receives a sense voltage associated with a direct-current (DC) source voltage, and generates a control signal with a duty cycle that varies with the sense voltage in a monotonically increasing manner. The boost converter circuit receives the DC source voltage and the control signal, thereby providing a driving current for driving light emission of a light emitting component. The driving current has a magnitude positively correlated to the duty cycle of the control signal.

Claims

1. A driving circuit for driving light emission of a light emitting component, comprising:

a control circuit receiving a sense voltage associated with a direct-current (DC) source voltage, and generating a control signal having a duty cycle that varies with the sense voltage in a monotonically increasing manner; and

a boost converter circuit receiving the DC source voltage and the control signal, and providing a driving current for driving light emission of the light emitting component, the driving current having a magnitude positively correlated to the duty cycle of the control signal;

wherein said control circuit includes;

a reference circuit receiving the sense voltage, and generating a reference voltage;

an oscillator circuit generating an oscillating signal having a predetermined frequency and a triangular waveform;

a pulse width modulation circuit receiving the reference voltage from said reference circuit and the oscillating signal from said oscillator circuit, to thereby generate the control signal by pulse width modulation, the control signal having a frequency associated with the oscillating signal, the duty cycle of the control signal being associated with the oscillating signal and the reference voltage; and

a logic circuit receiving a select signal and a clock signal from the oscillator circuit and generating a standby signal and a switch signal according to the select signal, the switch signal controlling a current switch between the boost converter circuit and the light emitting component.