Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, systems and methods for average current control in a buck DC/DC LED driver
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Application No.: US15382980Application Date: 2016-12-19
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Publication No.: US09887614B1Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Pavel Horsky , Jean-Paul Eggermont , Jan Plojhar , Martin Musil , Paul Andrem Decloedt
- Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Agency: Wash Park IP Ltd.
- Agent John T. Kennedy
- Main IPC: H02M1/08
- IPC: H02M1/08 ; H02M3/156 ; H05B33/08 ; H02M1/00 ; H02M1/12

Abstract:
Various embodiments of apparatuses, systems and methods for regulating the currents provided by a DCDC buck converters to an LED unit are provided. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a regulating module operable to instruct and regulate the periods during which a first switch of a driver module, used to control the operation of a buck converter module, is configured into at least one of the first operating state and the second operating state such that the maximum and minimum currents provided by the buck converter module to a load, such as an LED unit, over a given duty cycle are symmetrically disposed about an average current provided to the LED unit during the duty cycle, where the average current provided is substantially equal to a target current for the LED unit.
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