Industrial Technology Research Institute

Bing-Chwen Yang

Wen-Tien Tsai

Li-Ling Lee

Chi-Chung Wang

Yao-Te Huang

Min-Sheng Liu

Hwei-Shung Chong

Chung-Yue Chen

Yie-Tone Chen

A light adjustment circuit for alternating-current light emitting diodes (AC-LED's) connected to an AC power supply and a plurality of AC-LED's comprises: a light adjustment unit, being capable of modulating AC power from the AC power supply while providing the plurality of AC-LED's with the modulated AC power; and a pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit, being capable of modulating an external voltage signal in correspondence to variation in input AC power to enable each of the AC-LED's to achieve a predetermined brightness; wherein the AC-LED's are turned off by modulating the external voltage signal to prevent the AC-LED's from being burnt out when the input AC power is too high.

Light adjustment circuit for alternating-current light emitting diodes (AC-LED's)

An enhanced heat transfer device with electrodes is provided, which is applied to a heat exchanger with a plurality of fluid channels and includes a plurality of electrodes mounted in the fluid channels of the heat exchanger; a plurality of sensor units mounted in the fluid channels of the heat exchanger for measuring mass flow rates of fluids in the fluid channels; and a power source for providing voltage to the electrodes. The power source is used to drive the electrodes to produce turbulence to fluids passing through the fluid channels according to measured mass flow rates from the sensor units, so as to facilitate uniform fluid flows in the plurality of fluid channels and reduce effect of thermal boundary layer in the fluid channels to thereby enhance heat transfer performance for the heat exchanger.

Enhanced heat transfer device with electrodes

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Hsinchu County, Taiwan

Bing-Chwen Yang