摘要:
Luminous energy of a light-emitting element in an optical device is adjusted to a desired level by a light adjusting circuit including a light-receiving element adapted to detect the level of luminous energy of light emitted from the light-emitting element, an up/down counter circuit for counting clock signals up or down according to the level detected by the light-receiving element, and a current adjusting circuit for resetting the current intensity supplied to the light-emitting element according to output data from the up/down counter circuit.
摘要:
A drive circuit for LEDs or other light-emitting elements with which the influence of the changes in temperature or power supply voltage and the element variations can be restrained in order to output a pulse current with a constant level. When n-type MOS transistor 10 is on, power is supplied from switching power supply 60 to the LED, and the current of LED is detected by resistor 20. The error signal Serr between said detection signal Sfb and setpoint signal Sref is generated by error signal generating unit 30 and is averaged by signal holding unit 40. The power supplied to the LED is controlled corresponding to the averaged error signal SerrA. When n-type MOS transistor 10 is turned off from the on state, the power supplied to the LED is stopped, and error signal SerrA is held in signal holding unit 40. When n-type MOS transistor 10 is turned on from the off state, the averaging of error signal Serr is started with the signal level of the held error signal SerrA used as the initial level.