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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2009
Yuan-chin Chen, Fongshan, TW;
Hung-lieh HU, Hsinchu, TW;
Chen-kun Chen, Changhua County, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A drive system for an illumination device includes a plurality of LEDs; an extra load; an illumination setting unit, for providing an illumination parameter such as a work cycle; a power supply unit, for providing a DC current; a microprocessor, for receiving the illumination parameter and generating a plurality of drive signals and a compensation signal according to the received illumination parameter; a plurality of first drive units, for driving the LEDs to receive the DC current in the high-level cycle for illumination; and a second drive unit, for receiving the compensation signal and outputting the DC current to the extra load according to the compensation signal.