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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2016
Liteideas, Llc, Mansfield Center, CT (US);
Paul D Rucker, Roanoke, VA (US);
Todd W Hodrinsky, Mansfield Center, CT (US);
Other;
Abstract
A smart dimming network encoder is connected to an alternating current power source having a substantially regular period of cycles. The encoder includes a bipolar switch connecting the alternating current power source to a modified alternating current line, the bipolar switch having an on state permitting the modified alternating current line to conduct alternating current from the alternating current power source and an off state preventing conduction on the modified alternating current line. The encoder includes a processor coupled to the bipolar switch, the processor configured to receive a control signal at a control signal input and to switch the bipolar switch to the off state for an off time having a duration corresponding to the control signal.