# US 11,122,659 B2 · Three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit and 6-way LED light string

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- Number: US 11,122,659 B2
- Document ID: US11122659B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/012,145
- Filed: 2020-09-04
- Published: 2021-05-27
- Granted: 2021-09-14
- Earliest claimed: 2019-11-25
- Applicants: Huarong Xie
- Inventors: Huarong Xie
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11122659B2

## CPC

- H05B 45/325: Pulse-width modulation [PWM]
- H05B 45/20: Controlling the colour of the light
- H05B 45/42: Antiparallel configurations
- H05B 45/44: with an active control inside an LED matrix
- H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL

## Abstract

A three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit, comprising an external power supply, a MCU, a driving circuit and an LED light group circuit, the driving circuit comprises a P-channel first FET, a P-channel third FET, a P-channel fifth FET, a P-channel seventh FET, an N-channel second FET, an N-channel fourth FET, and an N-channel sixth FET; a first port is provided on the wire between the drain of the second FET and the drain of the third FET, a second port is provided on the wire between the drain of the fourth FET and the drain of the fifth FET, and a third port is provided on the wire between the drain of the sixth FET and the drain of the seventh FET. A 6-way LED light string using the said three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit is also provided.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit, comprising an external power supply, a microcontroller unit (MCU), a driving circuit and an LED light group circuit,
wherein the external power supply supplies power to the MCU and the driving circuit, the driving circuit comprises a P-channel first field effect transistor (FET), an N-channel second FET, a P-channel third FET, an N-channel fourth FET, a P-channel fifth FET, an N-channel sixth FET and a P-channel seventh FET;
the second FET, the fourth FET and the sixth FET each has a gate connected to a first output end of the MCU, a second output end of the MCU and a third output end of the MCU respectively, the second FET, the fourth FET and the sixth FET each has a grounded source, the second FET has a drain connected to a drain of the third FET, the fourth FET has a drain connected to a drain of the fifth FET, and the sixth FET has a drain connected to a drain of the seventh FET; the third FET, the fifth FET and the seventh FET each has a source connected to a drain of the first FET simultaneously, the third FET, the fifth FET and the seventh FET each has a gate connected to a fourth output end of the MCU, a fifth output end of the MCU and a sixth output end of the MCU respectively; the first FET has a gate connected to a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) control signal output end of the MCU, and the first FET has a source connected to the positive electrode of the external power supply.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 1, wherein
a first port is provided on a wire between the drain of the second FET and the drain of the third FET, a second port is provided on the wire between the drain of the fourth FET and the drain of the fifth FET, and a third port is provided on the wire between the drain of the sixth FET and the drain of the seventh FET, the LED light group circuit is simultaneously connected to the first port, the second port and the third port, the LED light group circuit comprises a plurality of LEDs, which are connected in parallel among any two ports of the first port, the second port and the third port, and two adjacent LEDs arranged between the same two ports have opposite polarity, and the LED light group circuit is one selected from the group consisting of an LED light group circuit of 3 ways, an LED light group circuit of 4 ways, an LED light group circuit of 5 ways and an LED light group circuit of 6 ways.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 2, wherein the control circuit further comprises a clock circuit, the clock circuit comprises a first capacitor, a second capacitor and a crystal oscillator, both ends of the crystal oscillator are respectively connected to two clock ends of the MCU, the first capacitor is connected between a first end of the crystal oscillator and the ground, and the second capacitor is connected between a second end of the crystal oscillator and the ground.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 2, wherein the control circuit further comprises an input circuit for a user to select an operating mode, the input circuit comprises a key switch, a pull-up resistor, a driver chip and a voltage stabilizing capacitor, the key switch is connected between the input end of the MCU and the ground, the pull-up resistor is connected between the positive electrode of the external power supply and a VDD pin of the driver chip, and the VSS pin of the driver chip is grounded, an output end of the driver chip is connected to the input end of the MCU, and the voltage stabilizing capacitor is connected between the VDD pin of the driver chip and the ground.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 2, wherein the control circuit further comprises a voltage stabilizing capacitor, the power supply end of the MCU is connected to the positive electrode of the external power supply, the voltage stabilizing capacitor is connected between the positive electrode of the external power supply and the ground.

### Claim 6 (depends on 2)

The three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 2, wherein when the LED light group circuit is an LED light group circuit of 3-way, the LED light group circuit comprises a first LED, a second LED and a third LED, the combination of any two ports of the third LED parallel connection is different from that of the first LED parallel connection, and is also different from that of the second LED parallel connection, wherein when the first LED and the second LED are connected in parallel between the same two ports, the first LED and the second LED have opposite polarity.

### Claim 7 (depends on 2)

The three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 2, wherein when the LED light group circuit is an LED light group circuit of 4-way, the LED light group circuit comprises a first LED, a second LED, a third LED and a fourth LED, the first LED and the second LED are connected in parallel between the same two ports, the first LED and the second LED have opposite polarity, the combination of any two ports of the third LED parallel connection and the fourth LED parallel connection is different from the combination of the two ports between which the first LED and the second LED are connected in parallel, wherein when the third LED and the fourth LED are connected in parallel between the same two ports, the third LED and the fourth LED have opposite polarity.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 1, wherein when the LED light group circuit is an LED light group circuit of 5-way, the LED light group circuit comprises a first LED, a second LED, a third LED, a fourth LED and a fifth LED, the first LED and the second LED are connected in parallel between the same two ports, the first LED and the second LED have opposite polarity, the third LED and the fourth LED are connected in parallel between the same two ports, the third LED and the fourth LED have opposite polarity, and the combination of any two ports between which the third LED and the fourth LED are connected in parallel is different from the combination of the two ports between which the first LED and the second LED are connected in parallel, and is also different from the combination of the two ports of the fifth LED parallel connection.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 1, wherein when the LED light group circuit is an LED light group circuit of 6-way, the LED light group circuit comprises a first LED, a second LED, a third LED, a fourth LED, a fifth LED and a sixth LED, the first LED and the second LED are connected in parallel between the same two ports, the first LED and the second LED have opposite polarity, the third LED and the fourth LED are connected in parallel between the same two ports, the third LED and the fourth LED have opposite polarity, the fifth LED and the sixth LED are connected in parallel between the same two ports, the fifth LED and the sixth LED have opposite polarity, and the combination of any two ports between which the fifth LED and the sixth LED are connected in parallel is different from the combination of the two ports between which the first LED and the second LED are connected in parallel, and is also different from the combination of the two ports between which the third LED and the fourth LED are connected in parallel.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

A 6-way LED light string using the three-wire forward and reverse LED light string control circuit of claim 1, wherein the LED light group circuit of the LED light string comprises a plurality of RGB light beads, the 6-way LED light string has two ways to emit warm white light, and has remaining four ways to emit light of three primary colors consisting of red, green and blue, and light of other different colors obtained by different combinations of the three colors of red, green and blue, a program for controlling multiple light-emitting modes is pre-implanted in the MCU, and the 6-way LED light string realizes a forward-reverse jump mode according to the program.