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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2024
Savant Technologies Llc, East Cleveland, OH (US);
SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC, East Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A driver and method for operating a driver circuit for a light-emitting diode (LED) device. In some embodiments, the driver circuit includes a rectifier operatively coupled to a ballast, a current regulator operatively coupled to the rectifier and to the LED device, and a detecting module operatively coupled to the LED device and to the current regulator. During a startup stage, the rectifier of the driver circuit rectifies direct current received from the ballast and provides the rectified current to the current regulator. The detecting module then detects a current through the LED device provided by the current regulator during the startup stage, wherein a value of the current through the LED device is a detecting indictor. The detecting module next provides the value of the current through the LED device to the current regulator which determines that it is outside a preset value range, converts the rectified current from the rectifier into a driving current having a value within the preset value range, and outputs the driving current to the LED device.