• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.55 no.7
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• pp.353-361
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• 2006

This paper presents the design scheme of transformer for backlight inverter and discuss the characteristics related to its design, including driving inverter. A few studies have so far been made at design and characteristics analysis of transformer. Therefore, this paper manages the presentation of the advisable design methodology of transformer for backlight inverter supplying CCFL. To verify the proposed method, this paper accomplishes the analysis by FEM coupled with circuit and finally shows that the proposed design method is very useful.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.123-127
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• 2004

Cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) has been used as a light source for direct type backlights for LCD monitors or TV. One inverter for one CCFL was necessary for maintaining the lamp current so that many inverters were used to drive as many CCFLs of direct type backlight for LCD TV. An inverter for driving 16 CCFLs was developed to reduce the backlight cost. The length and diameter of CCFL were 450mm and 4mm, respectively. Backlight including 16 CCFLs for 26" LCD TV was assembled by using one inverter. The uniformities of the assembled backlight operated by the conventional inverter and the newly developed inverter were 75% and 88%, respectively.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.416-423
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• 2007

To drive the CCFL In LCD backlight inverter, a new transformer structure with small volume is proposed which have a boosting voltage and a lamp current balancing functions. The proposed transformer structure has been verified through experimental test with 40inch LCD backlight inverter.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.47-53
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• 2007

The inverter using level control block (LCB) was developed to drive LCD TV backlight using FFL light source. The FFL striking time, time for brightness stabilization, and lamp current of FFL backlight were shown to improve by applying LCB in the inverter. It was also shown that the stable driving of LCD TV FFL backlight with the inverter using LCB was possible over the wide temperature range.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.139-141
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• 2007

This paper presents a digital LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) backlight inverter control using an 8-bit microcontroller. The backlight uses cold cathode fluorescent lamps(CCFLs) that have the negative resistance characteristics, so it requires the ballast function. For this, the proposed LCD backlight inverter uses an 8-bit microcontroller, ATmega128. Therefore, the controller circuit is simplified and cost-minimized. It shows through the experimental results that the proposed inverter has good performance for the LCD backlight inverter.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.167-177
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• 2012

Cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) are used to provide lighting for liquid crystal displays (LCDs). This paper presents a set of guidelines for measurement characterization and design to reduce the power consumption of CCFL LCD backlight inverters and panel electronics. The proposed methods aim to reduce the backlight power consumption by fine-tuning a back-light inverter for a specific LCD, using several methods. First, the authors describe their power measurement methodology; and next, they identify different areas for tuning a backlight inverter for a given display. The experiment results showed that power savings can range from 50 to 200mW if the backlight inverter is properly tuned. This paper also proposes an optimized configuration for light-emitting device (LED) panels to reduce power loss by selecting a LED with a specific input voltage and number of cells to help minimize power loss.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.357-363
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• 2011

This paper presents a simple LCD CCFL-backlight resonant inverter. First, in introduction various conventional inverter topologies for the CCFL are reviewed, briefly, and then, in each main subject the proposed inverter is explained, in detail. The proposed inverter utilizes a new class-E resonant circuit with a single-switch and is controlled by a single-chip microcontroller, which is very simple. Moreover, the proposed inverter can ensure resonant zero voltage switching (ZVS) under most operating conditions and performs simply the digital dimming control. It is shown through experimental results that the proposed inverter has good performance for the LCD CCFL-backlight.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.96-102
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• 2008

In a large screen sized LCD-TV, a backlight system with only one cold cathode fluorescent lamp(CCFL) can not meet brightness specification. Thus, considerable numbers of CCFLs are used to meet brightness specification. In this paper, the design guide for the inverter transformer which can drive 4 CCFLs instantaneously is presented. With the presented design, the inverter transformer that guarantee identical lamp currents under the nonidentical lamp characteristic condition, can be implemented easily. The developed inverter transformer is adopted in a 42" LCD-TV backlight. The experimental results are presented to show the validity of the presented design guide.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.37-41
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• 2004

Parallel combination of cold chathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) are widely used as the light sources of LCD TV backlight. Brightness uniformity is safisfied by using one transformer per one CCFL. Instead of using one transformer per oneCCFL, one transformer is used to drive 8 CCFLs by using differential driving method. A differential driving inverter with two transformers is developed to drive 16 CCFLs of 26' backlight for LCD TV. The brightness uniformity of $88\%$ was obtained by driving 26' backlight with the developed differential driving inverter successfully.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.747-750
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• 1999

A 30Watt inverter with 300: 1 dimming capability for high luminance, one cell, surface discharge plasma light source for LCD backlight was designed and tested. It was possible to achieve 300:1 dimming control by using the push-pull type inverter with burst-mode dimming control. The surface discharge plasma light cell with luminance of more than 5, 260 cd/$m^2$ was successfully operated.