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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2011
Applicant:
Christian Pura Angeles, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Christian Pura Angeles, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Power Integrations, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/00 (2006.01); H05B 33/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 33/0815 (2013.01); H05B 33/0842 (2013.01);
Abstract
A power converter includes dimmer circuit, a rectifier circuit, and a thyristor damper circuit. The dimmer circuit provides a dimmer voltage in response to an input voltage. The rectifier circuit provides a rectified voltage in response to the dimmer voltage. The thyristor damper circuit dampens an input current associated with the rectified voltage based on the input current and ceases dampening the rectified voltage based on the rectified voltage.