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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2012
Applicant:
Jlj, Inc., Bellbrook, OH (US);
Inventor:
John L. Janning, Bellbrook, OH (US);
Assignee:
JLJ, Inc., Bellbrook, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/00 (2006.01); H05B 39/00 (2006.01); H05B 41/00 (2006.01); G05F 1/00 (2006.01); H05B 37/02 (2006.01); H05B 39/04 (2006.01); H05B 41/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A shunt for bypassing LEDs in a series wired light string to keep the light string lit in the event of a failure of an LED. In one embodiment, the bypass shunt is a rectifier diode with a very high forward voltage drop (V). Another embodiment uses a transistor bypass device, where the collector and/or base is used as one terminal of the shunt device and the emitter is used as the opposite terminal. The preferred embodiment is to use the collector and emitter terminals only with the base terminal open.