• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2012

In this paper, a new LED driving circuit which is able to control dimming of LED is proposed using charge pump. The proposed LED driving circuit steps down the input voltage to operate LED without DC-DC converter. The operation of this driving circuit is verified by P-Spice simulation, and the characteristics of the driving circuit is measured and evaluated in the experiments. As a result, the driving circuit efficiency of 88.5[%] is obtained when all LEDs are turned on by digital control method at the highest dimming level(255/255).

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제27권9호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2013

A new LED lamp driving technology with a charge pump instead of a conventional DC-DC converter is proposed. The proposed driving technology is used to control the LED lamp with digital dimming. The power loss in the zener diodes is reduced because the charging process of the capacitors is selectively controlled according to the digital control signal. From the experimental results, when dimming four LED lamps simultaneously, the average driving circuit efficiency of 89% is obtained, regardless of the dimming level. White light with color temperature over a range of 2800~7200K was produced by dimming control of red, green, blue and amber LED lamps with the proposed driving circuit. The characteristics of the driving circuits can be changed depending on the characteristics of the R, G, B, and A LED lamps. The efficiency of the driving circuits up to a maximum 89% can also be obtained depending on the combination of LED lamps. The driving technology with digital dimming control for LED lamps proposed in this paper would be effective for obtaining high efficiency in LED driving circuits and remote control of LED lamps using digital communications.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제31권A호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2011

According to recent technological developments in high-power LEDs, the stage lighting is one of most important areas to apply power LED system. Moving light for color rendering of stage uses the RGBW(red, green, blue, white) color mixing method. LED moving light system needs to have a wide range of dimming control as enough to operate at very low power. Also LED dimming system should not be induced color-shift and flicker in camera. This paper is experimentally verified the LED Moving Light driving circuit of 200Watt level designed to satisfy the above characteristics which applied the DC current-controlled and PWM mixed dimming method.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

LED구동회로및 제어회로를 개발하였다. 개발된 LED구동회로는 새로운 PWM회로를 가지고 있으며 LED열의 디밍, 전류 및 온도제어 및 통신 기능을 할 수 있다. 개발된 PWM회로는 기본적인 디지털 논리소자를 사용하여 만들어 질 수 있는 두 개의 링 발진기와 한 개의 카운터로 구성되어 있다. 부가적으로 이 회로는 온-오프 제어 모드, 비상모드, 전력절감모드를 가지고 있으며 직열통신을 이용해서 제어된다. 설계 된 PWM 발생기와 제어회로는 마그나칩/하이닉스의 디지털 공정을 이용하여 제작되었다. 제작된 칩은 LED구동장치와 제어기 보드에 장착되어 테스트 되었으며 성공적으로 동작하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2007년도 7th International Meeting on Information Display 제7권1호
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• pp.1001-1004
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• 2007

This paper proposes a novel RGB-LED (light emitting diode) backlight system, for 32" LCD TVs, accompanied by a new X-Y Channel driving method in which its row and column switches control the individual division screen. This proposed driving method is able to produce division driving effects such as image improvement and reduced power consumption. Not only that, the number of driver needed in this method, that is 3 power supplies with 3*(m+n) switches, is much fewer than that of cluster driving method, that is 3*(m*n) driver.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권7호
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• pp.1261-1267
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• 2007

Although LEDs have been used in various applications with improving the brightness and luminous efficacy, the electrical and optical characteristics of high power LED varies at different temperature and starting time. In this paper, optimal heat sink and apparatus design were conducted using IR camera and ICEPAK on the LED bulb consisting with fourteen LED array. The temperatures of heat sink and LED device of the designed LED bulb without cooling pan were $74^{\circ}C\;and\;96.8^{\circ}C$, respectively, showing in good themal characteristics. For high efficiency driving circuit of LED array adopted optimal heat sink design, driving circuits of constant voltage and current circuits were suggested and fabricated. As a result the efficacy of all driving circuits showed more than 20 lm/W. Also, the constant current circuits are suitable for signal lamp, hallway lamp, and flash lamp having short operating time(about 30 min). On the other hand, a reading light and indoor lamp having long operating time can be controlled by constant voltage circuit.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.292-300
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• 2009

This paper presents an LED BLU driving circuit with a local-dimming structure. The efficiency of the proposed LED driver has been improved by parallel driving 8 serial-connected LED arrays. It employed the soft-switching boost converter topology to reduce the switching power loss of the hard switching boost converter. Soft- and hard-switching converters have the same structure except that the free-wheeling diode in the hard-switching converter is replaced with the n-channel MOSFET in the soft-switching one. The proposed boost converter was compared with the hard switching converter. The soft-switching converter reveals superior ripple and efficiency. A smaller inductance can be used for the soft-switching converter contrasting to the hard-switching one. We also studied on an over-voltage protection circuit of the output of the driver at the no load condition. The protection circuit was applied to the proposed driver, and its operation was confirmed by experiment. Using a local-dimming technique, power consumption of LCD BLUs can be reduced as low as possible according to the brightness of its image.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제27권10호
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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.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.53-57
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• 2012

In this paper, by designing 20 W class driving circuit for driving high-power LED (Light Emitting Diode), we are going to comparatively carry out the analysis of characteristics for power circuit according to each design method. In this case, 200 V 60 Hz was performed as input data. The electrical characteristics such as voltage, current and ripple are checked for constant current circuit and constant voltage circuit in the LED module. In addition, as the ripple has an influence on illumination of LED light, low temperature working (-20 [$^{\circ}C$]) and high temperature working(80 [$^{\circ}C$]) are measured to make sure the ripple characteristics in accordance with temperature. In low temperature operation -20 [$^{\circ}C$] measurements, both constant current circuit and constant-voltage circuit were less impacted on input fluctuation, whereas in the high temperature operation 80 [$^{\circ}C$], current voltage in constant voltage circuit was surge after 430 [hour]. Voltage current ripple of constant current circuit was much less than constant voltage circuit, therefore we can show that constant current circuit is more stable.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.760-769
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 LED의 색 영역을 확장하기 위해서 Hybrid LED 구동회로와 제어 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 Hybrid LED 구동회로는 고 전류에서는 스위칭 레귤레이션 동작을 하고 저 전류에서는 리니어 레귤레이션 동작을 함으로써 LED에 일정한 정 전류를 공급하였다. 또한 고 전류와 저 전류의 크기를 각각 CC 제어기법과 PWM 제어기법으로 제어하였다. 제안된 구동회로와 제어 기법으로 RGB LED 각각의 전류를 가변하였고, 전류가 최대 전류대비 2%까지 선형적으로 제어됨 실험을 통해 확인하였다. 게다가 출력된 광색을 CIE1931 색도좌표로 측정하였다. 그 결과 기존의 표현할 수 없었던 색이 균일하게 출력됨을 확인하였으며, 제안된 구동회로와 제어 기법이 저 전류제어가 가능함으로 색 영역 확장이 가능함을 증명하였다.