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Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Inventor:

Toru Takeda, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/02 (2006.01); H05B 33/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 33/0815 (2013.01); H05B 33/0827 (2013.01); H05B 33/0863 (2013.01);
Abstract

An LED lighting apparatus connected to a power source via two electric lines, includes first and second LEDs having different emission spectrum or chromaticity, a switching unit to monitor ON time length of power supplied from the two electric lines periodically to switch a control mode of the first and second LEDs between first and second modes as a condition that the ON time is not changed continues for more than a threshold value, a first control unit to determine, in the first mode, a total amount of average current to be supplied to the first LED and to the second LED depending on the ON time length of the electric power, and a second control unit to determine, in the second mode, a ratio of average currents to be supplied to the first LED and to the second LED depending on the ON time length.


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