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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2007
Hyo Young Kim, Gyunggi-do, KR;
Sung Hun OH, Gyunggi-do, KR;
Jong Rak Kim, Gyunggi-do, KR;
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Gyunggi-Do, KR;
Abstract
There is provided a backlight unit that determines whether a lamp performs an abnormal operation by detecting a voltage that is induced in a power conversion transformer without using a complicated and expensive detection circuit. A backlight unit having a protection circuit using induced voltage detection according to an aspect of the invention includes an inverter part including a primary coil receiving power and at least one secondary coil converting the power from the primary coil to AC power set beforehand, a lamp part including at least one lamp receiving the AC power from the inverter part to emit light, a detection part including conductors detecting voltages electromagnetically induced in the secondary coil, and an abnormality determining part comparing detection voltages from the detection part with a reference voltage set beforehand.