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Discharge lamp lighting device

US5170099A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 26, 1990
Grant dateDec 8, 1992
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Expiry dateMar 26, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S315/04
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A discharge lamp lighting device includes a DC power supplying means which supplies as superposed on a high frequency power fed to a low-tension, mercury-arc discharge lamp a DC power of a level capable of maintaining a discharge upon low light flux lighting, the lamp being thereby made stably lighted to an extremely low level of the flux of light.

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