Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100301748 | SELF-BALLASTED LAMP AND LIGHTING EQUIPMENT - The invention provides a self-ballasted lamp having high heat radiation performance, which is lightweight and inexpensive. A substrate having LED elements mounted is provided at one edge side of the radiator, and a cap is provided at the other edge side the radiator. A lighting circuit is accommodated between the radiator and the cap. The radiator includes a cylindrical cover member and an annular radiation member fitted to the outer circumferential part of the cover member and is composed by combining the cover member and the radiation member together. The cover member and the radiation member are made of metal and are formed by press-working. | 12-02-2010 |
20110074291 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE, SELF-BALLASTED LAMP AND LIGHTING EQUIPMENT - A light-emitting module includes a module substrate, semiconductor light-emitting elements and a connection substrate. On one face of the module substrate, a conductive layer is formed. The semiconductor light-emitting elements and the connection substrate are mounted on the conductive layer of the module substrate. Electric wires, which extend from a lighting circuit, are connected to the connection substrate. Power is supplied to the semiconductor light-emitting elements through the connection substrate and the conductive layer of the module substrate. | 03-31-2011 |
20110181198 | LED LIGHTING DEVICE AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an LED lighting device includes a DC source, a non-insulated step-down chopper and a light emitting diode. The non-insulated step-down chopper includes: a first circuit in which a switching element, a current detecting impedance element and an inductor are connected in series to each other; a second circuit in which the inductor and a freewheel diode are connected in series to each other; and a control portion for controlling the switching element. A power portion including the switching element and the control portion are constituted by a single package IC, and the current detecting impedance element and inductor are attached to the outside of the IC. | 07-28-2011 |
20120056560 | DC POWER SOURCE UNIT AND LED LAMP SYSTEM - A DC power source unit | 03-08-2012 |
20120217899 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND LUMINAIRE - According to one embodiment, a lighting device includes a control circuit that includes a threshold for a case where a pair of the illumination lamps are connected in series between a positive output end and a negative output end of a power supply circuit, and a threshold for a case where one illumination lamp is connected between the positive output end and the negative output end of the power supply circuit. The control circuit determines the connected lamp number of the illumination lamps to a direct-current power supply device based on a voltage between the positive output end and the negative output end of the power supply circuit and a voltage between a non-potential connection end and the positive output end or the negative output end, and selects the threshold corresponding to the connected lamp number to control the direct-current power supply device. | 08-30-2012 |
20130076262 | Lighting Device, Lighting Equipment, and Lighting Control System - According to an embodiment, a lighting device includes a first to fourth light sources, a control unit, and an operation unit. The first to fourth light sources have a different combination of a relatively high/low correlated color temperature and a relatively high/low general color rendering index from each other. The control unit controls at least two of a light flux, the correlated color temperature, and the general color rendering index of each of the light sources. The operation unit designates at least one of the correlated color temperature and the general color rendering index of each of the light sources, and executes spectral distribution with the designated correlated color temperature, or general color rendering index. | 03-28-2013 |
20130106311 | Power Supply Device and Lighting Device | 05-02-2013 |
20130127346 | Lighting Control Device and Lighting Control Method - In the lighting control device according to the exemplary embodiment, the detection section detects the presence or absence of a person in a lighting area and a movement speed of a person, based on an image data of the lighting area that is lighted by a light source of a plurality of lighting apparatuses and is acquired from an imaging device. A decision section decides whether each of division areas is a stay area or a non-stay area based on the movement speed of a person detected by the detection section. A lighting control section performs different lighting controls on the lighting apparatus of the division area decided as the stay area by the decision section and the lighting apparatus of the division area decided as the non-stay area. | 05-23-2013 |
20130241439 | Lighting Control System, Lighting Control Method, and Storage Medium - A lighting control system includes a plurality of lighting fixtures for ambient lighting, a plurality of lighting fixtures for task lighting, and a smart phone of a worker. The smart phone can execute an application program which controls a corresponding lighting fixture for ambient lighting, and starts up the application program when an ON state of a lighting fixture for task lighting is detected. | 09-19-2013 |
20130247352 | Method for Designing Indoor Lighting - A method for designing indoor lighting includes disposing a first luminaire on a ceiling surface that forms an indoor space, the first luminaire having a luminous intensity distribution characteristic that a luminous flux over a range of luminous intensity distribution angles no smaller than 90 degrees but no greater than 120 degrees with respect to a vertically downward direction, which represents 0 degrees, is 20% of a luminous flux of the luminaire or greater and a luminous flux over a range of luminous intensity distribution angles no smaller than 60 degrees but smaller than 90 degrees is 20% of the luminous flux of the luminaire or smaller; and disposing a second luminaire in the indoor space, the second luminaire illuminating a wall surface present in a region corresponding to the luminous intensity distribution angles of light from the first luminaire no less than 60 degrees but smaller than 90 degrees. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250554 | LUMINAIRE - According to one embodiment, a luminaire is provided which can enhance the feeling of brightness of a space and can reduce glare. The luminaire includes an equipment mounted on a ceiling surface. The equipment includes a light source and a light control unit. When an amount of light emitted outside from the equipment is an equipment luminous flux, and a direction right under the equipment has a luminous intensity distribution angle of 0°, the light control unit controls to cause a luminous flux falling within a range of a luminous intensity distribution angle of 90° to 120° to be 20% or more of the equipment luminous flux and to cause a luminous flux falling within a range of a luminous intensity distribution angle of 60° to 90° to be 20% or less of the equipment luminous flux. | 09-26-2013 |
20130271030 | Road Lamp System - According to one embodiment, a road lamp system includes a light-emitting section configured to irradiate light and an image pickup section. A power supply section operates as a driving power supply for the light-emitting section and performs power line communication with an external management apparatus. A road-lamp control section receives a control signal from the management apparatus via the power supply section and controls the light-emitting section on the basis of the control signal. A camera control section receives the control signal and determines, on the basis of image information transmitted from the image pickup section, whether a control operation instructed by the received control signal is executed. | 10-17-2013 |
20140167645 | Lighting Apparatus and Lighting System - A lighting apparatus (L) includes: a light source section that includes two or more kinds of plural LEDs having different emission colors as light sources; a storage section that stores light color characteristic information that indicates the relation between a light color of an illumination light that is generable by the light source section and an output of each LED; a transmission section through which a light color control command for designating the light color of the illumination light is input; and a control section that converts the light color control command into output information of each LED on the basis of the light color characteristic information, and controls an output level of each LED on the basis of the output information. | 06-19-2014 |
20140191658 | SELF-BALLASTED LAMP AND LIGHTING EQUIPMENT - The invention provides a self-ballasted lamp having high heat radiation performance, which is lightweight and inexpensive. A substrate having LED elements mounted is provided at one edge side of the radiator, and a cap is provided at the other edge side the radiator. A lighting circuit is accommodated between the radiator and the cap. The radiator includes a cylindrical cover member and an annular radiation member fitted to the outer circumferential part of the cover member and is composed by combining the cover member and the radiation member together. The cover member and the radiation member are made of metal and are formed by press-working. | 07-10-2014 |