Integrated LED Lamp Control Circuit with Motion and Light Sensing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current LED lamp systems with moving object detection circuits are complex, difficult to install, and have low sensitivity, limiting their use as general-purpose lamps due to separation from the lamp structure and inconvenient lighting control.

Innovation Solution

A compact lamp control system integrating an AC power source, wave generator, driving circuit, microprocessor, switching circuit, sensing circuit, and illumination setting circuit, allowing manual operation, moving object detection, and auto-adjusting capabilities, with a sensing circuit for environmental illumination detection to control LED lamp illumination.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If the moving object detection circuit is separated from the LED lamp structure, then the LED lamp structure is simpler, but the installation becomes difficult and sensitivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveLED lamp structureVSAvoidinstallation
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates the moving object detection circuit directly into the LED lamp structure, combining previously separate components (detection circuit, driving circuit, and LED lamp) into a unified integrated structure. This merging eliminates installation complexity while maintaining simplicity through functional integration at the circuit level.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated circuit structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides LED driving functionality, moving object detection capability, and lighting control in a single unified component. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed while improving installation ease and detection sensitivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Device complexity

If the moving object detection circuit is separated from the LED lamp structure, then the LED lamp structure is simpler, but the sensitivity becomes low

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveLED lamp structureVSAvoiddetection sensitivity
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates the moving object detection circuit directly into the LED lamp structure, combining previously separate components (detection circuit, driving circuit, and LED lamp) into a unified integrated structure. This merging eliminates installation complexity while maintaining simplicity through functional integration at the circuit level.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Device complexity

If the LED lamp lighting is controlled only by the moving object detection circuit, then the detection function is simple, but the user convenience decreases and application scope is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol circuitVSAvoidapplication scope
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The integrated circuit structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides LED driving functionality, moving object detection capability, and lighting control in a single unified component. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed while improving installation ease and detection sensitivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic control capabilities that allow the LED lamp to adjust its operation based on different conditions. The control circuit can switch between manual control mode and automatic detection mode, and can also provide dimming functions, making the system adaptable to various application scenarios and user preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

4Ease of operation

If manual control operation is added to the LED lamp, then the user convenience is improved, but the control circuit structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidcontrol circuit structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The integrated circuit structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides LED driving functionality, moving object detection capability, and lighting control in a single unified component. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed while improving installation ease and detection sensitivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9408264B2Lamp system realizing various ways for controlling lighting up thereof
Publication Date: 2016.08.02 TSAI HSIAO CHANG
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AI summary

A lamp control system with various control ways includes an AC power source; a wave generator; a driving circuit; a lamp set receiving power from the driving circuit to drive the lamp set; a microprocessor receiving power from the lamp set as driving power thereof and receiving, signals from the wave generator as driving signals; a switching circuit; the switching circuit being connected to the microprocessor and receiving the signals from the microprocessor for operating the lamp; the switching circuit also controlling current flowing through the lamp set and thus controlling the illumination of the lamp set; a sensing circuit connected to the microprocessor for detecting variations of environment illuminations and then transferring detecting signals to the microprocessor to cause the microprocessor to control the switching circuit to operate the lamp set; and an illumination setting by which a user can set illumination of the lamp set.