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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Jean-Paul Eggermont, Pellaines, BE;
Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of apparatuses, systems and methods for regulating the currents provided by a DCDC buck converters to an LED unit are provided. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a regulating module operable to instruct and regulate the time periods during which each of the first switch and the second switch of a driver module, used to control the operation of a buck converter module, are configured into at least one of the first operating state and the second operating state such that a maximum current and a minimum current provided by the buck converter module to an LED unit over a given cycle are symmetrically disposed about an average current provided to the LED unit during an operating cycle, where the average current provided is substantially equal to a target current for the LED unit.