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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2014
Goodrich Lighting Systems Gmbh, Lippstadt, DE;
Robert Trinschek, Hamm, DE;
Tomasz Kordecki, Hamm, DE;
Frank Klein, Langenberg, DE;
Ralf Rehbein, Hamm, DE;
GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH, Lippstadt, DE;
Abstract
A dimmable LED reading light unit includes a dimming module and an LED module, connected in series. The dimming module has an input being connectable to a power supply supplying direct voltage and includes a potentiometer allowing section of a dimming rate and a current controller providing an operating current for the LED module. The LED module includes at least one LED and a current consumer connected in parallel and the current controller is configured to supply direct current to the LED module that substantially corresponds to the sum of the driving current necessary for driving the at least one LED to emit light with an intensity of illumination corresponding to the dimming rate of the potentiometer, and the current consumption of the current consumer.