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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2008
Simon Schwalenberg, Regensburg, DE;
Harald Stoyan, Rettenbach, DE;
Simon Schwalenberg, Regensburg, DE;
Harald Stoyan, Rettenbach, DE;
OSRAM AG, Munich, DE;
Abstract
The luminous chain includes a plurality of luminous modules, wherein at least two of the luminous modules include at least one set including at least one light source and one driver circuit for driving the at least one light source, and the driver circuits of one set of the respective luminous modules are electrically connected in parallel with one another, and the light sources of the one set of the respective luminous modules are electrically connected in series with one another, and the driver outputs of the driver circuits are combined at a node for jointly supplying current to all of the light sources of the one set.