Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC

Paul Andrem Decloedt

Pavel Horsky

Jean-Paul Eggermont

Jan Plojhar

Martin Musil

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 element 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 a first operating state and a 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.

Devices, systems and processes for average current control

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 device includes a time-off module configured to output a time-off signal when an output voltage of a power supply reaches a predetermined threshold; a timer module configured to determine a first duration, and after waiting a second duration, output a measured time signal; and a control module, coupled to each of the timer module and the time-off module, configured to output a set signal during a current cycle of the power supply, wherein the 'on' slate for the current cycle occurs while the control module outputs the set signal and ends when the control module receives the measured time signal.

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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Paul Andrem Decloedt