An LED Driver With Dynamic High-Frequency Sinusoidal Bus Voltage Regulation for Multistring Applications

Abstract

In order to obtain sufficient luminance and achieve high reliability, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are usually arranged in parallel strings in many high-power applications. Since current imbalance should be avoided among the parallel LED strings, a multichannel constant current LED driver with dynamic high-frequency sinusoidal voltage regulation is proposed in this paper. The proposed driver is composed of one resonant inverter and several LCL-T resonant rectifiers. The number of the rectifiers equals to that of the LED strings. The rectifier whose output current is sensed and closed-loop controlled is called master rectifier and all the others slave rectifiers. The resonant inverter is used to convert dc voltage into high-frequency sinusoidal bus voltage and the LCL-T resonant rectifiers are included to drive LED strings with constant current. The amplitude of the high-frequency sinusoidal bus voltage is dynamically regulated to ensure the output current of the master resonant rectifier to be constant by a closed-loop controller. Since the output current of the slave rectifier is linear with the amplitude of the bus voltage as the master rectifier, there are not any auxiliary circuits included in the slave rectifier while the output current balancing is achieved. Finally, a 200-W prototype with one master and fifteen slave rectifiers is built to verify the performance of the proposed driver.