• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.9-17
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• 2011

The high-power LED (Light Emitting Diode) which is recently gaining popularity as a digital light source has such advantages as low power consumption, long life, fast switching speed, and high efficiency. Thus, many efforts are being made to use the high-power LEDs for general lighting. This paper proposes LED driving circuit uses a DC/DC converter that can recover energy to compensate for the current variations caused by changes in LED equivalent resistance following a temperature change instead of serial resistance. The maximum input voltage of this DC/DC converter has low voltage variations by temperature change when the rated current is formed. In order to return current to the input side, we need a high boosting at low power. Thus, to improve the low efficiency of power converter, the power converter can be configured in such a way to gather the powers of low-capacity DC/DC converters and return the total power. Experiments showed that the proposed system improved efficiency compared to the conventional LED drive using the existing DC/DC converter.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.8-13
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• 2011

In this paper, a mathematical model of the power LED system including the drive circuit will be presented to control the power LEDs current. Using this mathematical model, the constant current adaptive controller will be designed. A constant current drive circuit for power LEDs will be configured using Buck-type converter. Precise constant current controller design is enabled by presenting the mathematical model of power LEDs including the current driving circuits. Using the mathematical model of power LEDs and its drive circuits, the constant current adaptive controller will be designed to obtain the robustness for the parameter uncertainties. In order to verify the validity of the proposed controller, computer simulations are performed.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.644-652
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• 2016

This paper presents an improved single-stage ac-dc LED-drive flyback converter using the transformer-coupled lossless (TCL) snubber. The proposed converter is derived from the integration of a full-bridge diode rectifier and a conventional flyback converter with a simple TCL snubber. The TCL snubber circuit is composed of only two diodes, a capacitor, and a transformer-coupled auxiliary winding. The TCL snubber limits the surge voltage of the switch and regenerates the energy stored in the leakage inductance of the transformer. Also, the switch of the proposed converter is turned on at a minimum voltage using a formed resonant circuit. Thus, the proposed converter achieves high efficiency. The proposed converter utilizes only one general power factor correction (PFC) control IC as its controller and performs both PFC and output power regulation, simultaneously. Therefore, the proposed converter provides a simple structure and an economic implementation and achieves a high power factor without the need for any separate PFC circuit. In this paper, the operational principle of the proposed converter is explained in detail and the design guideline of the proposed converter is briefly shown. Experimental results for a 40-W prototype are shown to validate the performance of the proposed converter.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.485-490
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• 2012

In this paper, driver circuit of LED lights for ships is designed and implemented to replace conventional lights with filament which have short life time due to vibration of ships. The driver of LED module is switching circuit without transformer to reduce volume and cost. As switch circuit controls input 220 VAC with PWM, LED module is reliably driven. Power factor is improved by using valley-fill PFC compensation circuit which is handled to pulse current of switching circuit. Serial-parallel LED circuit is applied to reduce change period of lights of long-term navigation ships. Array of serial-parallel can operate even if some of LEDs is damaged. It is suitable for ships that power consumption and power factor of lights including developed drive circuit have 39Watt and 0.925 respectively.

• 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.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.201-206
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• 2020

This paper presents a new method for controlling the current of lighting LEDs without current sensors. This method can be used as backup against LED current sensor faults. LED lighting requires a circuit with a constant current in order to maintain the same brightness when the ambient temperature changes. Therefore, we propose a new current estimation method to provide backup in case of current sensor faults based on the calculation of the inductor current. In the fabricated circuit, the average current changes from 144.03 mA to 155.97 mA when the ambient temperature changes from 0℃ to 60℃. The application of this study can enable the fabrication of a driving IC for LEDs in the form of a single chip without sensing resistors. This is expected to reduce the complexity of the peripheral circuit and enable precise feedback control.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.119-124
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• 2007

24" LCD Monitor용 LED BLU를 개발하기 위하여 1.5W R,G,G,B가 하나의 PKG에 들어있는 LED를 이용하여 Direct type의 Back Light Unit을 개발하였다. 방열 및 휘도 균일도를 고려하여 LED part를 설계, 개발 하였고 LED를 pulse로 구동하기 위하여 Switching circuit이 포함되는 구동회로 부분을 설계, 개발하였다. 또한 Color Sensor와 ICM (Integrated Color Management) IC를 사용하여 Color를 Control하는 제어회로 부분도 개발을 하였다. 제어회로 부분을 개발하기 위하여 MicroController를 사용하였으며 ICM IC와의 통신을 위한 부분도 개발하였다. 이러한 구성을 개발하여 시제품을 직접 제작하였다. 평가를 위하여 성능시험을 실시하였고 광학적인 평가도 시행하였다. 제작된 시제품은 $L558{\times}W359{\times}H30$으로 하였다. 휘도는 목표휘도를 이루었으며 균일도는 85% 이상이 되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.27 no.10
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• pp.15-20
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• 2013

In this paper, wireless power transfer system using the magnetic resonance was designed and applied to LED lighting for implementation of wireless lighting. This lighting was made by the converted DC driving type and the direct AC driving type. In the former, transferred AC power was rectified into DC and regulated to the specified voltage value, which leads to produce the loss at the rectifying and regulating circuit. In the latter, wireless-transferred AC power was directly applied to LED, which get rid of the loss derived from the additional circuit. For the efficiency-comparison between the former and the latter, the power at each stage was measured when the same optical output radiated from LED lighting part. The result revealed that the direct AC driving type had 18% higher efficiency than the DC driving type and confirmed that LED lighting using magnetic resonance wireless power transfer system can be efficient by direct AC power supply. And the direct AC driving type had the simple circuit structure and the simple LED lighting formation, so this can leads to various application.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.2707-2712
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• 2011

In this paper, a power factor correction (PFC) control circuit using single stage boundary conduction mode(BCM) for the 400V. 120W LED drive application has been designed. The proposed control circuit is aimed for improvement of the power factor correction and reduction of the total harmonic distortion. In this circuit, a new CMOS multiplier structure is used instead of a conventional BJT(bipolar junction transistor) based multiplier where has a relatively large area. The CMOS multiplier can bring 30 % reduced chip area, competitive die cost in comparison with the conventional BJT multiplier.