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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2010
Applicants:
Alexander Mednik, Campbell, CA (US);
Rohit Tirumala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alexander Mednik, Campbell, CA (US);
Rohit Tirumala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Supertex, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A Light Emitting Diode (LED) driver for preventing shorting has an LED driver circuit. A protection circuit is coupled to the LED driver to detect a fault condition by monitoring a cathode of an LED string of the LED driver, an LED current sense voltage of the LED driver, an LED current feedback error voltage of the LED driver circuit, and a state of a dimming switch of the LED driver.