Inventor · Forstern, DE

Bernd Rudolph

53Patents
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40Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 9, 1988 → Dec 1, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5825136A Circuit arrangement for operating electric lamps, and an operating method for electronic lamps Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US4884008A Auto-adjustable operating room light Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Expired
US5831396A Circuit arrangement for operating electric lamp Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US5497004A Ultraviolet sensor Chemistry; Metallurgy 26 Expired
US8369109B2 Self-oscillating bipolar transistor DC/AC/DC converter using a pulse forming timer Electricity 26 Active
US5583399A Ballast for one or more fluorescent lamps including threshold sensitive filament voltage preheating circuitry Electricity 20 Expired
US6198231A Circuit configuration for operating at least one discharge lamp Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US5589740A Semiconductor-controlled operating circuit for one or more low-pressure discharge lamps, typically fluorescent lamps Electricity 14 Expired
US7242154B2 Circuit arrangement and method for operation of lamps Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US8134297B2 Ballast for a discharge lamp with adaptive preheating Electricity 9 Active
US5783911A Circuit arrangement for operating electric lamps, and operating method for electric lamps Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US7544948B2 Control of the UV radiation sources for a weathering apparatus on the basis of the averaged radiation intensity Electricity 8 Expired
US5898816A Method for treating material samples and apparatus for testing exposure to light and weathering Physics 8 Expired
US7348581B2 UV light-emitting diodes as a radiation source in a device for the artificial weathering of samples Physics 6 Expired
US6933681B2 Circuit arrangement and method for starting and operating discharge lamps Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US6259213A Circuit arrangement for operating at least one low-pressure discharge lamp Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US5488267A Xenon lamp system for materials testing apparatus Electricity 4 Expired
US8653484B2 Detection of emission radiation of UV light emitting diode by structurally identical UV light receiving diode Electricity 4 Active
US9528927B2 Weathering testing having a plurality of radiation sources which are independently operable of one another Physics 3 Active
US6677716B2 Operating device for gas discharge lamp Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US6806657B2 Device for operating discharge lamps Electricity 3 Expired
US8212495B2 Method for controlling a half-bridge circuit and corresponding half-bridge circuit Electricity 3 Active
US7190127B2 Shutdown circuit Electricity 2 Active
US7193375B2 Electronic ballast having a pump circuit for a discharge lamp having preheatable electrodes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US6525489B2 Circuit arrangement for operating electric lamps Electricity 2 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.