US Patent Issued to STANLEY ELECTRIC on Feb. 3 for "Lighting control apparatus, lighting control method, lighting apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,256, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Lighting control apparatus, lighting control method, lighting apparatus" was invented by Tomoki Sugiyama (Tokyo) and Masahiko Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To make conduction time (lighting time) of a light emitting element more uniform.A lighting control method in which a controller is used to drive a plurality of light source units connected in parallel to each other in a time-division manner, (a) where the controller includes: (b) to perform control of one switch element among a plurality of switch elements connected in series to each of the plu...