• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.150-152
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• 2007

LCD Backlight 구동 응용을 위한 새로운 인버터 회로 Topology인 Modified Half Bridge Inverter를 제안한다. 제안된 회로는 LCD의 광원 역할을 하는 냉음극 형광램프(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp, CCFL) 구동을 위한 회로로서, 제안된 회로는 주 스위치의 동작 시비율이 낮을 때도 보조 스위치를 이용하여 환류 구간을 형성함으로써 주스위치의 영 전압 스위칭 동작을 보장할 수 있다. 제안된 회로의 동작원리를 설명하고, 타당성을 Simulation 및 실험을 통하여 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.166-168
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• 2007

본 논문은 LCD backlight 인버터의 Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp(CCFL)를 구동하기 위해 승압 기능과 전류 평형 효과를 동시에 갖는 트랜스포머에서 부피 및 원가 저감 효과를 갖는 새로운 구조의 트랜스포머를 제안하였다. 제안된 트랜스포머의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 실제 40인치 LCD backlight 인버터에 적용하여 실험을 수행하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.190-192
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• 2007

LCD TV의 대형화에 따라 하나의 백라이트용 냉음극 방전램프(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp ; CCFL)를 이용한 백라이트는 휘도의 한계가 있어 대형 디스플레이에서는 여러 개의 램프를 사용하여 필요한 휘도를 만들고 있다. 본 논문에서는 냉음극 방전램프 16개를 사용하는 42인치 LCD TV용 대형 백라이트 구동을 위한 인버터의 트랜스포머를 각기 다른 램프의 특성에 대해 동일한 관 전류 출력을 갖도록 설계하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.454-462
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• 2006

To enhance the competitive edge of the material cost, various techniques lowering the material cost of inverter to drive Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) have been developed. In this paper, the theoretical analysis has been done for the existing techniques such as Jin Balance and O2Micro technique. Especially, How to design the value of magnetizing inductance to meet the specification of the lamp current tolerance between lamps has been disclosed. Based on this result, two kinds of hybrid type balancing techniques have been proposed and analyzed mathematically, Also, the accuracy of the proposed techniques has been verified through Pspice simulation.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.6
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• pp.445-458
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• 2010

A Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp(CCFL) is used as a LCD Monitor's backlight widely. The most common way to check CCFL's defects is an examination with the naked eye. This naked eye examination can cause examination inconsistencies and industrial disasters. A shooting environment and detection algorithms are important for finding CCFL defects automatically. This paper presents CCFL defect detection algorithms using images captured under the shooting environment with sidelight which is one of the shooting environment we have suggested. The experimental result shows 4.65% of overdetection and 5.37% of unsuccessful defect detection of CCFL.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.166-169
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• 2007

In applying LCD to TV application, one of the most significant factors to be improved is image sticking on the moving picture. LCD is different from CRT in the sense that it's continuous passive device, which holds images in entire frame period, while impulse type device generate image in very short time. To reduce image sticking problem related to hold type display mode, we made an experiment to drive TN-LCD like CRT. We made articulate images by turn on-off backlight, and we realized the ratio of Back Light on-off time by counting between on time and off time for video signal input during 1 frame (16.7 ms). Conventional CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) cannot follow fast on-off speed, so we evaluated new fluorescent substances of light source to improve residual light characteristic of CCFL. We realized articulate image generation similar to CRT by CCFL blinking drive and TN-LCD overdriving. As a result, reduced image sticking phenomenon was validated by naked eye and response time measurement.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.69-81
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• 2010

A Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp(CCFL) is used as a LCD Monitor's backlight widely. The most common way to check CCFL's defects is an examination with the naked eye. This naked eye examination can cause an examination inconsistency and an industrial disaster. To examine CCFL defects, a shooting equipment and a defect detection algorithm are necessary. This paper shows the shooting environments for checking CCFL and presents some CCFL defect detection algorithms. As a result of experiments, our implementations showed 98.32% of successful defect detection of CCFL.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.331-340
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• 2008

A method of measuring the current and voltage is suggested in the circuit of cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) which are driven at a high frequency of $50{\sim}100\;kHz$ and a high voltage of several kV. It is difficult to measure the current and voltage in the lamp circuit, because the impedance of the probe at high voltage side causes the leakage current and the variation of luminance. According to the analysis of equivalence circuit with the probe impedance and leakage current, the proper measuring method is to adjust the input DC voltage and to keep the specific luminance when the probe is installed at a high voltage circuit. The lamp current is detected with a current probe or a high frequency current meter at the ground side and the voltage is measured with a high voltage probe at the high voltage side of lamp. The lamp voltage($V_C$) is measured between the ballast capacitor and the lamp electrode, and the output voltage($V_I$) of inverter is measured between inverter output and ballast capacitor. As the phases of lamp voltage($V_C$) and current ($I_G$) are nearly the same values, the real power of lamp is the product of the lamp voltage($V_C$) by the lamp current($I_G$). The measured value of the phase difference between inverter output voltage($V_I$) and lamp current($I_G$) is appreciably deviated from the calculated value at $cos{\theta}=V_C/V_I$.

• 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.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1058-1061
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• 2004

Recently, According to companies of TFT LCD are making large sized products more and more. In the vortex of Products with a monitor and LCD TV is applied in a technique of a high viewing angle(FFS, IPS, VA). Also, as a high luminance, high speed response time, high degree of a color purity, and so on are continuing to develop a high performance, it is necessary to improve a specific character of high luminance that apply to LCD TV as a LCD BLU. Because a LCD panel for TV usually has a lower resolution that compare to a monitor, the structure of present backlight system can't put out its power even though it has a merit in transmission. Therefore, the examination of improvement about the high luminance direct typed BLU for LCD TV that presupposes several uses of CCFL(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) or EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp)is actively being progressed. Although it is necessary to increase the number of lamps for applying high performance by the direct type, in this case, because we can design the character of luminance for adoption of high performance. We can satisfy with a level of luminance for LCD TV. Accordingly, we analyzed a change of the number of CCFL, mechanical and optical character to produce the direct typed backlight in 32inches spec. Consequently, we achieved luminance of 6597nit,which was including polarization film, and secured the standard for LCD TV.