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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2012
Applicant:

Tridonic Gmbh & CO KG, Dornbirn, AT;

Inventors:

Andre Mitterbacher, Dornbirn, AT;

Markus Mayrhofer, Dornbirn, AT;

Assignee:

TRIDONIC GMBH & CO KG, Dornbirn, AT;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/02 (2006.01); H05B 33/08 (2006.01); H02M 1/42 (2007.01); H02M 3/156 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 33/0815 (2013.01); H02M 1/4225 (2013.01); H02M 3/156 (2013.01); H05B 33/0845 (2013.01); H05B 33/0887 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to an operating circuit for illuminants, in particular one or more LED sections (), comprising an actively clocked PFC circuit (), which can be supplied by an AC voltage (U) and optionally also a DC voltage (U) and the output voltage of which is directly or indirectly supplied through the illuminant () to a unit () for generating a PWM-modulated current. The operating circuit also has a control unit () that detects a residual ripple in the voltage (U) in the supply chain before (), in () or after () the PFC circuit () and causes the frequency of the PWM modulation of the current through the illuminant () to be selected as a function of the frequency of the residual ripple.


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