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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Kotaro Shibata, Kyoto, JP;
Akinobu Sawada, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/02 (2006.01); H05B 33/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 33/0851 (2013.01); H05B 33/0815 (2013.01);
Abstract
An LED power supply device disclosed in the present specification includes a DC dimmer circuit that performs dimming control of an LED such that the higher a reference voltage variably controlled according to a dimmer signal is, the smaller a current flowing in the LED is. This configuration makes it possible to achieve fine dimming control.