• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.906-907
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• 2008

기존의 LED(Light Emitting Diode)를 이용한 LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) 백라이트 유닛은 무부하시 불필요한 전력소모가 발생하는 경우가 있어 보호회로가 필요하였다. 그래서 본 논문은 보호회로를 이용한 LCD 백라이트 유닛용의 LED 구동회로를 제안한다. 제안된 보호회로는 실험 결과 무부하시 피드백 제어부 IC(Integrated Circuit)의 전원전압 VCC를 UVLO(Under Voltage Lock Out)전압 이하로 강하시켜 무부하시 소비되는 전력을 줄일 수 있었다. 또, 무부하시 부스트 컨버터 출력부의 전압스트레스를 줄일 수 있었고, 유부하시 보호회로가 있는 컨버터와 보호회로가 없는 컨버터의 효율비교에서 거의 같은 효율이 측정되었다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2010

This paper reviews the performance difference between constant voltage control and constant current control in LED driver. Simulations of both control methods are performed for performance comparison especially with temperature variation. The results show that constant current control method is inherently better than constant voltage control for LED drive.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.123-129
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• 2009

In this study, SMPS to drive LED traffic signal light for the railroad and airport was designed and its electrical characteristics was measured. The output voltage, output current and its power efficiencies to the input voltage 8~12VAC and 8~16VDC were 6VDC, 1.85ADC and >70%, respectively. Also the power factors of the SMPS were above 0.75 in the AC input voltage range.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.29 no.12
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• pp.8-14
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• 2015

An effective way to ensure that LEDs produce wanted light output is to use a current driving topology, because the brightness of LEDs is directly related to their current. However, this topology may lead to the lifetime shortening of a illumination system because over-currents may flow through non-damaged LEDs in case some LEDs are damaged. This paper presents an adaptive current control circuits for LEDs, which protect LEDs in a good state by limiting the driving currents according to the number of damaged ones. The proposed control circuits consist of a simple constant-current driver and a micro-controller which monitors the voltage of LED array without any auxiliary current sensors for fault diagnosis. And the driving current is automatically controlled into 6-levels according to the number of failures.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.135-136
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 조명용 LED 구동을 위한 최소원가형 전력변환장치를 제안하였다. 부하측의 전압과 전류 피크값을 낮춤으로써 스위칭 손실을 줄이면서 플리커 현상도 최소화하고, 입력전압과 전류를 동상에 가깝게 제어를 하여 역률을 최적화 하였다. 전해커패시터를 없앰으로써 장수명화에 기여를 하였고, 필터에 사용되는 소량의 용량은 필름커패시터를 대체하여 부하측 전류의 안정화에 기여하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 LED 구동용 전원장치의 최적화에 기여하여 장수명화 및 비용을 최소화할 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.967_968
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• 2009

For lighting application, high-power LED nowadays is driven at 350mA and a sensing resistor is used to provide feedback for LED-current regulation. This method adds an IR drop at the output branch, and limits power efficiency as LED current is large and keeps increasing. In this paper, a power efficient LED-current sensing circuit is proposed. The circuit does not use any sensing resistor but extracts LED-current information from the output capacitor of the driver. Controlling the brightness of LEDs requires a driver that provides a constant, regulated current. In one case, the converter may need to step down the input voltage, and, in another, it may need to boost up the output voltage. These situations often arise in applications with wide-ranging ""dirty"" input power sources, such as automotive systems. And, the driver topology must be able to generate a large enough output voltage to forward bias the LEDs. So, to provide this requirements, 13W prototype Buck-Boost Converter is used.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.1379-1384
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• 2009

High power light emitting diode(LEDs), a strong candidate for the next generation general illumination applications are of interest. With major advantages of power saving, increased life expectancy and faster response time over traditional incandescent bulb, the LEDs are rapidly taking over many applications such as LCD backlighting, traffic light, automotive lighting, signage, etc. The increased electrical currents used to drive the LEDs have focused more attention on the thermal management because the efficiency and reliability of the solid-state lighting devices strongly depend on successful thermal management. There exist some problems that are caused by heat generation in the LED package, such as wire breakage, yellowing of epoxy resin, lifted chip caused by reflow of thermal paste chip attach and interfacial separation between LED package and silicon resin. The goal of this study is to analyze high power LED thermal properties of using pulsating heat pipe.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.7
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• pp.89-95
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• 2014

An LED lighting which adjusted brightness according to the surround ambient implemented using PWM technology and power devices. To measure the brightness of surround ambient a CdS sensor was used. A control board for the generation of the PWM signal was made using a MCU and duty ratio was controlled according to light intensity of surround ambient of the system. To drive the LED lamps which require high-voltage and high-current power devices were used for switching the DC power supply. Measurement results show that the IGBT is excellent as only lineality but the PowerBJT is more good to consider to efficiency and cost.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.2003-2008
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• 2012

A drive system is necessary to operate LED by an LED illumination system. Because Switched Mode Power Supply (SMPS) is higher in efficiency in the large capacity than Linear Regulator, it is used mainly and controls this in an analog form or digital method. A MCU and a DSP of the digital control central processing unit were higher in a unit price than existing analog control chip, so that an approach was not easy for application of SMPS. But it can take the earnings by it lets you integrate various digital control features like an LED illumination system in one MCU, and realizing a whole system. In this paper, we suggest the algorithm that can improve LED driving current in applying such a digital control method using low-priced type MCU.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04c
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• pp.125-127
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• 2008

기존의 LED(Light Emitting Diode)를 이용한 LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) 백라이트 유닛은 LED에 과전류가 흐르면 소자의 파손이 발생하고 무부하시 불필요한 전력소모가 발생하는 경우가 있어 보호회로가 필요하였다. 그래서 본 논문은 보호회로를 이용한 LCD 백라이트 유닛용의 LED 구동회로를 제안한다. 제안된 보호회로는 2가지로 첫 번째 보호회로는 무부하시 소비전력을 줄이는 보호회로 이다. 시뮬레이션 결과 무부하시 피드백 제어부 IC(Integrated Circuit)의 전원전압 $V_{cc}$를 UVLO(Under Voltage Lock Out)전압 이하로 강하시켰다. 그래서 무부하시 소비되는 전력을 줄일 수 있었다. 두번째 보호회로는 과전류시 보호회로 이다. 시뮬레이션 결과 과전류시 SCR이 온 되어 피드백 제어부 IC의 전원전압 $V_{cc}$를 UVLO전압 이하로 강하시켰다. 따라서 과전류시 LED 동회로 소자의 파손을 방지할 수 있는 장점이 있다.