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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Iwatt Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Inventors:
John William Kesterson, Seaside, CA (US);
Richard M. Myers, Grass Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Dialog Semiconductor Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
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
The embodiments disclosed herein describe a method of a power controller for monitoring for unsafe operating conditions of a drive transistor in a switching power converter of a LED lamp system by predicting the power dissipation of the drive transistor based on knowledge of the current through the drive transistor and a continuous observation of the voltage across the drive transistor. When the drive transistor approaches unsafe operating conditions, the power controller turns off the drive transistor.