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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2002
Shigeyoshi Umezawa, Fukui, JP;
Tsurugi Sawai, Hyogo, JP;
Toshihiro Nomura, Fukui, JP;
Yoshiyuki Nakade, Fukui, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A light-controlling device of this invention includes a controlling circuit having a function for turning an incandescent lamp and an LED off simultaneously, which have different minimum voltages each other at predetermined illumination. When illumination of the lamp and the LED decrease to the predetermined illumination by rotating an operating section of a variable resistor, the controlling circuit turns the lamp and the LED off based on a signal from a detecting switch linked with rotating operation of the operating section. As a result, an operator does not feel strange.