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Title:
LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE LIGHTING CIRCUIT, LIGHTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2007329275
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To avoid the non-lighting of the whole one row of a light-emitting diode connected in series by a simple constitution in the case of the defective opening of the light-emitting diode.

Compensating elements 63 are connected in parallel with each of a plurality of the light-emitting diodes connected in series, and conductors 83 and 84 having a specified melting point are fitted near each terminal 81 and 82 on the positive electrode side and the negative electrode side. When the defective opening is generated in the light-emitting diode, a heat generated in a resistance element 86 is transferred to conductors 83 and 84 fitted to the compensating elements 63 connected in parallel with the light-emitting diode. The conductors 83 and 84 are melted when they reach a fixed temperature, and a section between both terminals 81 and 82 is melted by the conductors 83 and 84. Consequently, a current flows between the terminals 81 and 82 through the conductors 83 and 84, and the terminals 81 and 82 are short-circuited. The other light-emitting diodes connected in series are lit continuously while avoiding the light-emitting diode in the defective opening.

COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT


Inventors:
WADA HARUAKI
OSHIMO KUNIO
URAZONO TAKENOBU
Application Number:
JP2006158870A
Publication Date:
December 20, 2007
Filing Date:
June 07, 2006
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SONY CORP
International Classes:
F21V25/02; G02F1/133; G02F1/13357; H01L33/00; H05B37/02; F21Y101/02
Domestic Patent References:
JP2002299695A2002-10-11
JP2001035331A2001-02-09
JPS5957838A1984-04-03
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshitsuno Kakuda
Hitoshi Ito