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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2015
Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Ansan-si, KR;
Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Ansan-si, KR;
Abstract
An AC-driven LED lighting apparatus includes: a triac dimmer to generate a modulated AC voltage by modulating a phase of AC power according to a selected level of dimming; a rectifying circuit to generate drive voltage by full-wave-rectifying the AC voltage having the phase modulated by the triac dimmer; a dimming level detector to detect a dimming level according to the drive voltage; a phase cut reference setting unit for setting a phase cut reference value; and a LED driving module for constant-current-controlling a plurality of LED groups by comparing the detected dimming level with the phase cut reference value, wherein the light emitting element driving module comprises a LED current blocking unit for blocking a drive current supplied to the plurality of LED groups when the dimming level is lower than the phase cut reference value.