This application claims priority to China Application Serial Number 202210385130.6, filed Apr. 13, 2022, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to a lighting device. More particularly, the present invention relates to a lighting device with flickering functions.
In nowadays techniques of light boards, the stability of driving currents provided for light emitting elements are usually improved to stable the intensity of emitted lights and to avoid flicker. However, for some special purposes, the light emitting elements are controlled to provide flickering lights at a certain frequency, and therefore it may loss some advantages related to lights without flicker. Hence, how to design a lighting device able to control the light emitting elements to provide flickering lights at the specific frequency, and combine the advantages related to the lights without flicker is an issue deserved to be studied.
To achieve the aforesaid purpose, one aspect of the present disclosure is related to a lighting device. The lighting device includes a light board and a light dimmer circuit. The light board includes a plurality of first light emitting elements and a plurality of second light emitting elements. The first light emitting elements are disposed in a first area of the lighting device. The second light emitting elements are disposed in a second area of the lighting device. The light dimmer circuit is configured to drive the second light emitting elements to generate flickering lights from the second area of the lighting device, and configured to drive the first light emitting elements to generate non-flickering lights from the first area of the lighting device.
The other aspect of the present disclosure is related to a lighting device. The lighting device includes a light board and a light dimmer circuit. The light board includes a plurality of first light emitting elements and a plurality of second light emitting elements. The light dimmer circuit is configured to drive the first light emitting elements by a pure DC voltage/current, and configured to drive the second light emitting elements by a pulse DC voltage/current.
Summary, the present disclosure utilizes the light dimmer circuit to drive the first light emitting elements to generate the non-flickering lights and to drive the second light emitting elements disposing in the same light board to generate the flickering lights.
The present invention can be more fully understood by reading the following detailed description of the embodiment, with reference made to the accompanying drawings as follows:
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In some embodiments, the power supply circuit 130 can be implemented by the mains electricity or AC electricity. In other embodiments, the power supply circuit 130 can be implemented by the DC electricity, such as, the DC current provided by an electrical device through a universal serial bus interface. The light dimming circuit 120 is configured to convert the power supplied by the power supply circuit 130 to a pure direct-current voltage/current and a pulse direct-current voltage/current to drive the light board 110 to emit lights.
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The light dimming circuit 120 includes a power conversion circuit 122, a pure direct-current (DC) voltage/current generating circuit 124 and a pulse direct-current (DC) voltage/current generating circuit 126. In some embodiments, the power conversion circuit 122 can be implemented by a AC-DC conversion circuit or a DC-DC conversion circuit, so as to buck and rectifier the AC/DC power transmitted from the power supply circuit 130, and output DC power to the pure DC voltage/current generating circuit 124 and the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 126.
The pure DC voltage/current generating circuit 124 is configured to generate pure DC voltage/current to drive the light emitting elements 112 disposing in the light board 110 to provide/generate non-flickering lights. The pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 126 is configured to generate pulse DC voltage/current to drive the light emitting elements 114 disposing in the light board 110 to provide/generate flickering lights. The aforesaid flickering lights have a flicker frequency which can be perceptible by human visual system. The aforesaid non-flickering lights can be considered as non-visible-flickering lights which may include non-visible-flicker which is hard to be perceptible by human visual system. In some embodiments, the aforesaid flicker frequency of the flickering lights has benefits to treat or improve certain diseases, or to provide some stimulation for human brain. In some embodiments, the flicker frequency can be set at 40 Hz, so as to treat, improve or prevent brain function decline, such as, degenerative nerve disease (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease) or neurodegenerative disease.
To be noted that, since the light emitting elements 112 in the first area Z1 of the light board 110 are disposed outside of/surrounded around the light emitting elements 114 in the second area Z2, and the light emitting elements 112 disposing on the periphery of the light board 110 is driven by the pure DC voltage/current to emit/generate the non-flickering lights, so as to decrease the uncomfortable feelings in human’s visual caused from the flickering light. And, the human visual perception for the flickering-lights can be decreased, while maintaining the benefits for treating, improving or preventing brain function decline, such as, degenerative nerve disease (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease) or neurodegenerative disease.
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The DC-DC conversion circuit 230 includes an input capacitor Cin, a switch circuit 220 and a first transformer T1. The input capacitor Cin is connected to an input terminal of the DC-DC conversion circuit 230, and is configured to receive the DC supply voltage V1 provided form the power conversion circuit 122. The current control unit 210 is configured to control the switching frequency of the switch circuit 220 (the switch Q1), so as to transmit the pulse current through the primary winding coil N11 and the secondary winding coil N12 of the transformer T1 to a first terminal of the diodeD1, such that the diodeD1, the inductor Lcc and the capacitor C1 converts the pulse current to a pure DC voltage/current and provides the pure DC voltage/current to the light emitting elements 112a. The light emitting elements 112a can correspond to the light emitting elements 112 in
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In some embodiments, the DC-AC conversion circuit 320 can be implemented by a half-bridge DC/AC converter, a full-bridge DC/AC converter or class-E converter. Therefore, it is not intended to limit the present disclosure. Correspondingly, in the embodiment of
The resonant circuit 330 includes a resonant capacitor Cr and a LLC resonant circuit, formed by two inductors Lr and Lm. The power transformer 340 includes a primary winding and a secondary winding, the primary winding is electrically coupled to the resonant circuit 330 to receive the resonant voltage and output the AC driving voltage.
The control unit 310 receives an external light dimming control signal dim. The external light dimming control signal dim is a pulse signal provided by a microcontroller (not shown) or a pulse width modulation generation circuit. In the cycle TP, when the external light dimming control signal dim has a high logic level, the control unit 310 generates the control signals Vg1 and Vg2 to control the current lac oscillates at a relatively large amplitude, and provides the current lac to the rectifier circuit 350, such that the rectifier circuit 350 converts the current lac to the current Io (or the driving voltage Vdri) at a high logic level AH2; and when the external light dimming control signal dim has a low logic level, the control unit 310 generates the control signals Vg1 and Vg2 to control the current lac oscillates at a relatively small amplitude, such that the rectifier circuit 350 converts the current lac to the current Io (or the driving voltage Vdri) at a low logic level AL2, so as to drive the light emitting elements 114b, and perform the light dimming on the light emitting elements 114b by controlling the electric current, such that the light emitting elements 114b emits flickering-lights. In some embodiments, a pulse frequency of the external light dimming control signal dim can be set at 1~80 Hz (a time length of the cycle TP can be set at a range of 1 s~0.0125 s, correspondingly), and the light emitting elements 114b can emits flickering-lights at a corresponding flicker frequency. In some embodiments, the pulse frequency of the external light dimming control signal dim can be set at 40 Hz, such that the light emitting elements 114b can emits flickering-lights at a corresponding flicker frequency (e.g., 40 Hz). The light emitting elements 114b can correspond to the light emitting elements 114 in
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For example, the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 126 provides a pulse DC voltage/current with a flickering cycle 1/40 or 1/60 seconds, and the light emitting elements 114 correspondingly emit the flickering-lights at the flicker frequency of 40 Hz or 60 Hz. As a result, the light emitting elements 114 emits the flickering-lights at the certain flicker frequency.
In some embodiments, the flicker frequency of the flickering-lights emitted by the light emitting elements 114 can be set in a range of 1~80 Hz, so as to treat the related disease. In some embodiments, the flicker frequency of the flickering-lights emitted by the light emitting elements 114 can be set at 40 Hz, so as to treat, improve or prevent brain function decline, such as, degenerative nerve disease (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease) or neurodegenerative disease.
In some embodiments, the light emitting elements 112 and 114 have the same specification, and maximum amplitudes of the electrical currents provided by the pure DC voltage/current generating circuit 124 and the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 126 are the same. Therefore, if a pure DC voltage/current generated by the pure DC voltage/current generating circuit 124 has a maximum value, high and low logic levels of the pulse DC voltage/current generated by the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 126 can be set in a range of 0-1 times of the maximum value of the pure DC voltage/current generated by the pure DC voltage/current generating circuit 124.
In some embodiments, a difference between the high logic level AH1 and the low logic level AL2 of the pulse DC voltage/current generated by the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 126 is less than ½ times of the amplitude of the pure DC voltage/current. In this case, the perceptible capability for perceiving the flicker by human’s visual can be decreased, and the patient experience can be improved while maintaining the best effect of the treatment.
In other embodiments, a difference between the high logic level AH1 and the low logic level AL2 of the pulse DC voltage/current generated by the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 126 is less than ¼ times of the amplitude of the pure DC voltage/current. In this case, the perceptible capability for perceiving the flicker by human’s visual can be rapidly decreased, so as to improve the patient experience during the treatment of the certain disease under a condition that the flicker will be hard to be perceptible by human visual system.
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Similarly, the power supply circuit 130 is electrically coupled to the power conversion circuit 628, the power conversion circuit 628 is electrically coupled to the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 626, and the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 626 is electrically coupled to the light emitting elements 114 in the light board 110. In function, the power conversion circuit 628 is configured to convert the power provided by the power supply circuit 130 to the DC voltage and provides the DC voltage to the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 626, such that the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 626 generates pulse DC voltage/current to drive the light emitting elements 114 in the light board 110 to emit the flickering lights.
The other connection relationship and operation manner/function of the power conversion circuits 622 and 628, the pure DC voltage/current generating circuit 624 and the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 626 in the light dimming circuit 620 are respectively similar/equal to the power conversion circuit 122, the pure DC voltage/current generating circuit 124 and the pulse DC voltage/current generating circuit 126 in the light dimming circuit 120 in
Summary, the present disclosure utilizes the light dimming circuit to drive the light emitting elements 112 to emit non-flicker lights and the light emitting elements 114 to emit flicker lights, which are disposed in the same light board. The light emitting elements 114 are controlled to emit flickering lights at a certain flicker frequency can increase the treatment effect for specific disease, and the light emitting elements 112 are controlled to emit non-flickering lights can decrease the human visual perception for the flickering lights, such that the patient experience during the treatment can be improved.
Although the present disclosure has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain embodiments thereof, other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the embodiments contained herein. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present invention cover modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims.
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202210385130.6 | Apr 2022 | CN | national |