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US 8,007,129 B2Granted
LED-based christmas light string assembly with parallel-wired lighting units
OwnerChen-Sheng Yanginventor
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Abstract
An LED light string assembly has a plug for providing a low DC voltage, an extension socket, a light string connected between the plug and the extension socket. The light string has multiple LED Christmas bulbs connected in parallel. Each LED Christmas bulb includes an LED and a resistor connected in series. Even one of the LED Christmas bulb burns out, all the remaining LED Christmas bulb of the light string will not be affected and still can be normally turned on as required to generate light.
Claims2
A LED-based Christmas light string assembly with parallel-wired lighting units, the assembly comprising:
- a plug receiving an AC voltage, converting the AC voltage to a low DC voltage and connected with an extension wire, a DC voltage output wire and a ground wire, wherein the extension wire and the DC voltage output wire transmit the low DC voltage;
- an extension socket connected to the extension wire and the ground wire;
- a light string being connected between the plug and the extension socket, and comprising multiple lighting units connected in parallel, each lighting unit having an LED Christmas bulb and a resistor connected in series, each resistor limiting a current flowing through the corresponding LED Christmas bulb and preventing a short circuit between the DC voltage output wire and the ground wire when the corresponding LED Christmas bulb becomes short circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.