• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.2999-3004
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• 2010

In comparison with some other light sources, LED has merits such as long lifetime, pollution free, and high energy efficiency. Lately, due to development of LED with high brightness and capacity, LED, which has been applied in display system only, has applied in the field of lighting system. As power LED for lighting system can be burned out by heat problem, the driving current of power LED has to be controlled below the designed value. In this paper, power LED photovoltaic lighting system, which has the current limitting function, has been described. After photovoltaic power is generated from PV panel. it is charged into a battery. And then, after the charged power is converted to DC24[V] through a boost DC-DC converter, it is supplied to power LED at night. It has been validated by designing and testing of 72[W] power LED lighting system, which includes a PV charger, a boost DC-DC converter and a current limiter for driving power LED.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.335-340
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• 2014

Recently, LED (Light Emitting Diode) becomes to be useful to apply for the lightening sources in electric systems and the lightening equipment since the power is less consumed with high efficiency, and the size and the weight of LED are small and light, respectively. The LED is controlled with constant current and SMPS (Switching Mode Power Supply). It is necessary for the LED manufacturer to secure the fundamental technology of designing LED chip, and to study the methodology to improve the power factor (PF) and to design the operational circuit for the development of LED to reduce the power loss in the application of LED lightening. The direct AC (Alternating Current) LED driving circuit, HV9910, is widely used in the industry field. In this paper, it is to evaluate the improved methodology for the power factor and efficiency through simulations when PFC (Power Factor Correction) and Noise Filter are added to HV9910.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.3
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• pp.555-561
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• 2010

In this paper, the constant current controller is designed to regulate the driving current of a power LED. The controller design model of the power LED including its driving circuit is proposed to design the constant current controller. A buck converter is also introduced to drive the power LED. The PI-based digital controller is implemented to validate the proposed strategy for the power LED driving.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.320-326
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• 2014

In this paper, the new smart dimming algorithm which is mixed with PWM and PAM control method is proposed for reducing the power consumption of LED TV Backlight. The proposed technique is using the curve characteristics of LED forward voltage and current which is proportionally changing LED forward voltage as changing LED forward current. Therefore, each PWM and PAM control method has different LED forward voltage and current in the same brightness condition. The PWM control method adjusts the brightness of LED TV Backlight by only varying the duty ratio of PWM and constantly sustaining the amplitude of LED forward current and voltage. So, the level of LED forward current and voltage in the PWM control method is relatively high and constant regardless of duty ratio of PWM. On the other hand, the PAM control method adjusts the brightness of LED TV Backlight by directly varying the level of LED forward current. So, the level of LED forward current and voltage in the PAM control method is lowered according to the brightness level. For the above-mentioned reason, the PAM control method has the advantage of reducing the total power consumption of LED TV Backlight at the brightness condition of below 100%, compared with PWM control method. By implementing this characteristic to LED driver circuit with control algorithm in MCU, the power consumption of LED TV Backlight can expect to be reduced. The effectiveness of the proposed method, new smart dimming algorithm, CPWAM(=Conditional Pulse Width Amplitude Modulation), has been verified by experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.117-122
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• 2013

The distributed power conversion LED driver circuit using parasitic inductance is proposed in this paper. while the conventional LED driver circuit is composed of the large size devices and heatsinks, the proposed circuit can be realized with the small sized no heatsink based. since the processing power can be effectively distributed. Also by using the wire parasitic inductance of the LED string, the proposed circuit can be implemented without external magnetic device. As a result, the proposed circuit which features the small size and volume con be realized even without LED driver module(LDM) board. since, all the device can be attached to the existing LED array Module(LAM) board. Therefore, it features that cost savings and volume reduction of circuit. To confirm the validity of the proposed circuit, theoretical analysis and experimental results from a distributed power conversion LED driver circuit prototype are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.424-425
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• 2010

가시광 무선통신 시스템은 LED 전류를 데이터 신호에 따라 제어하여, 기존의 LED 조명장치를 통신 수단으로 사용 가능하기 때문에 차세대 통신 수단으로 주목 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 가시광 무선통신 시스템을 위한 전류원 구동 LED 드라이버를 제안한다. 제안된 LED 드라이버는 컨버터의 전류원을 이용하고 LED와 병렬 연결된 스위치 소자를 스위칭 구동방식으로 제어함으로써, 기존의 선형 구동방식보다 전력손실 및 발열을 크게 개선하여 대용량의 LED 조명장치에 적용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 제안 회로의 가시광 무선통신 시스템 구현을 통해 제안된 LED 드라이버의 우수성 및 이론적 해석의 타당성을 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.428-429
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• 2010

LED는 친환경적 특성, 긴 수명, 우수한 효율 등의 장점이 있어 최근 기존의 백열전등 및 형광등을 대체하는 조명 수단으로 각광받고 있다. 또한, LED는 전기를 빛으로 변환하는 속도가 굉장히 빠른 반도체 소자로서 정보의 변조 및 인코딩이 가능하기 때문에 통신 소자로서 LED 활용이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 LED의 특성을 이용하여 기존 LED의 조명 기능을 활용하면서, 부가적인 근거리 무선 통신이 가능한 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 전류원 구동 가시광 통신 시스템의 경우 출력 인덕터가 필요한 구조상의 한계로 인해 모든 종류의 컨버터에 가시광 통신용 LED 드라이버를 적용하기 어려운 문제점이 있지만, 제안 LED 드라이버는 출력 구조에 관계 없이 모든 종류의 컨버터에 적용할 수 있어 제안 회로의 응용이 다양한 장점이 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.587-592
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• 2015

According to increase in the use of the LED, the demand for low power consumption LED display design of the controller block has increased. In this paper, the low power LED controller block was designed through the power source supply that leads adiabatic operation from constant current source circuit operated by digital signal control. The proposed circuit was implemented using a 0.35um CMOS process. and it demonstrated linear operation of the circuit. From the simulation result, the proposed circuit was evaluated with about 82% power consumption reduction effect in comparison with conventional LED controller block. This research is expected to be helpful for the low power operation and the solution for heat problem of LED display.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.430-431
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 가시광 통신을 위한 고효율 대용량 LED 드라이버를 제안한다. 기존 가시광 통신을 위한 LED 드라이버는 LED의 선형 구동방식으로 인한 전력 손실 및 발열이 매우 심각하여 대용량의 조명용 LED에 적용하기에는 현실적인 어려움이 뒤따랐다. 하지만 제안 회로는 LED의 스위칭 방식 구동을 통해 전력 변환 효율 및 발열이 크게 개선되어 대용량의 조명용 LED에 적용할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 효율 저하 없이 최대 10Mbps의 높은 데이터 전송 성능을 가지는 부가적인 무선통신 시스템을 구현할 수 있다. 최종적으로, 제안회로의 우수성을 검증하기 위하여 무선통신 오디오 시스템을 구현하여 고찰된 실험 결과를 제시한다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.767-773
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• 2018

This paper proposes the simple structure LED-driving power converter with high power factor. As the proposed power converter combines the PFC boost converter and the conventional flyback converter into only one power conversion circuit, it simplifies the structure of LED-driving power converter. Thus the proposed converter is controlled using only one PWM controller IC, and it achieves high power factor, constant output voltage/current and cost-effectiveness. Therefore the proposed converter is suitable for the industry production and utilization of LED-light-system. In this paper, the operation analysis and design example of the proposed converter are explained, briefly. Also experimental results of the prototype that is implemented based on the designed circuit parameters are shown to validate operation characteristics of the proposed converter.