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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2010
Applicants:
Pei-cheng Huang, Taipei, TW;
Jing-meng Liu, Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventors:
Pei-Cheng Huang, Taipei, TW;
Jing-Meng Liu, Hsinchu County, TW;
Assignee:
Richtek Technology Corp., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
By monitoring the temperature of an LED and the temperature of a controller chip for the LED, a thermal foldback control is employed to gradually decrease the driving current of the LED before the LED or the controller chip is over heated, so as to prevent an over temperature protection from being triggered to shutdown the controller chip to cause the LED to undesirably flicker.