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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2020
Applicant:

Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;

Inventors:

Akira Aoki, Kyoto, JP;

Ryo Takagi, Kyoto, JP;

Assignee:

Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 45/14 (2020.01); H05B 45/325 (2020.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 45/14 (2020.01); B60Q 1/1415 (2013.01); H05B 45/325 (2020.01); B60Q 2300/05 (2013.01);
Abstract

A lighting control device switches an input voltage to generate an output voltage and supplies a driving current based on the output voltage to a lighting unit. A raw control signal is generated to specify a lighting period and an extinction period alternately, and a corrected control signal is generated by correcting the raw control signal based on the current through the lighting unit. A switching controller performs the switching of the input voltage during the lighting period specified by the corrected control signal and suspends the switching of the input voltage during the extinction period specified by the corrected control signal.


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