Silicon Works Co., Ltd.

Hyundai Ihl Corporation

Wanyuan Qu

Sung Hwan Kim

Ju Pyo Hong

Ju Hyun Lee

Hai Feng Jin

Se Won Lee

Byeong Ho Jeong

Joo Wan Ha

Tae Young Yoo

Young Suk Son

Ok Hwan Kwon

Sun Geon Yoo

Jin Hee Jeon

Young Jin Woo

Gyeong Sik Mun

Dae Keun Han

Yong Goo Kim

Won Ji Lee

Jin Won Mok

Ju Yeong Kim

So Bong Shin

Hyun Il Park

Disclosed is a lamp control device. The lamp control device may include: a lamp having an LED channel; a channel resistor corresponding to the LED channel; and a controller configured to boost a channel resistor voltage applied to the channel resistor, and retain a channel current of the LED channel as a target current, using the boosted channel resistor voltage.

Lamp control device

Provided is a lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus may provide an output voltage to lighting loads, and include: a converter configured to generate the output voltage using a driving signal; and a driving circuit configured to provide the driving signal, and spread the frequency of the driving signal by performing frequency dithering on the driving signal while changing the shape of an oscillation signal.

Lighting apparatus and driving circuit including frequency dithering and slope compensation

A lamp control device includes a converter configured to provide an output voltage and an internal voltage; a lamp including an LED module which has a plurality of LED channels, and configured to emit light in correspondence to the output voltage of the converter; and a controller configured to operate by using the internal voltage of the converter, control the output voltage of the converter to be retained at a level equal to or higher than a predetermined level, by using feedback voltages of the plurality of LED channels, and control channel currents of the plurality of LED channels to be regulated in correspondence to memory values which are set in advance.

A lamp control device includes a lamp including an LED module which has a plurality of LED channels; and a controller configured to detect respective feedback voltages of the plurality of LED channels, and determine, when at least any one feedback voltage among the feedback voltages is retained to be lower than a predetermined reference voltage and a generation count of an over voltage protection signal reaches a predetermined reference count, an LED channel corresponding to the feedback voltage, as an open.

A lamp control device may include: a lamp including an LED module having a plurality of LED channels; a converter configured to receive a voltage corresponding to a turn signal, convert the voltage into an output voltage and internal voltage, and supply the output voltage to the LED module; and a controller configured to start counting a preset delay time when the internal voltage is supplied from the converter, and control the plurality of LED channels to sequentially light up at intervals of the delay time.

Lamp control device and control method therefor

Disclosed are a switching apparatus including an internal circuit using an inductive element and a control method thereof. The switching apparatus includes a switch that regulates a current of the inductive element, and a signal control circuit that arithmetically calculates a turn-off time point of the switch by using a monitoring voltage corresponding to the current of the inductive element, a sampling voltage of the monitoring voltage, and a reference voltage corresponding to a target average current of the inductive element, and controls the switch.

Switching apparatus and control method thereof

Disclosed herein are a switching mode converter and a method for controlling thereof. The switching mode converter includes a switching element, a bootstrap capacitor, and a control unit. The switching element is connected between one side of a first semiconductor device, another side of the first semiconductor device is connected to a ground, and an input power. The bootstrap capacitor is configured such that one side of the bootstrap capacitor is connected to the one side of the first semiconductor device. The control unit controls the output current or output voltage of a common charge pump provided to the switching element and the bootstrap capacitor in order to control the charging state of the bootstrap capacitor and the gate voltage of the switching element.

Switching mode converter having 100% duty cycle mode and method for controlling thereof

The present invention introduces a device and a method for driving an LED with an improved power factor without using a voltage detector having a large amount of area and power consumption. The device for driving an LED includes a power supply unit, an LED array, and a current path select circuit. The LED arrayis connected with the power supply unit in parallel and includes at least one LED string including LED channels LEDto LEDn that are configured of a plurality of LEDs connected in series. The current path select circuit selects a path of current flowing from output terminals of the plurality of LED channels according to voltage levels of each of the output terminals of the plurality of LED channels.

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Wanyuan Qu