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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2016
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yoshinobu Murakami, Osaka, JP;
Atsuo Nanahara, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A luminaire includes a light source; a wireless communication circuit for communicating with a dimming controller; a storage which stores an identifier of the dimming controller; and a control circuit for dimming light of the light source according to a dimming command transmitted from the dimming coat roller when the luminaire is in a paired state, i.e., a state in which the identifier of the dimming controller is stored in the storage of the luminaire. When the control circuit is in a communication check mode, i.e., a mode for checking whether or not the luminaire is able to communicate with the dimming controller, the control circuit, regardless of whether or not the luminaire is in the paired state with the dimming controller, brings the luminaire into a predetermined illumination state by dimming light of the light source when the wireless communication circuit receives a communication cheek command from the dimming controller.