Circuit for pulsed operation of a discharge lamp
US5726537A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 25, 1996 |
| Grant date | Mar 10, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 25, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S315/07
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
To provide for automatic switch-over between a power phase and a holding se in operation of a discharge lamp (EL), a choke or ballast coil (L), serially connected to the discharge lamp, is constructed to have, with respect to current flow therethrough, a non-linear reactance value; the choke or ballast coil is wound on a core which, for example, can be a E-core in which the center leg is of reduced cross-section with respect to the outer legs; or, if one is a torroidal coil on a ring core, the ring core is preferably made of two core elements of different magnetic characteristics, connected together, for example by an adhesive, in which one core element is of low permeability material, such as iron powder or permaloy with high saturation magnetization, and a second core is formed of ferrite with low saturation magnetization. Current flow through the coil and the serially connected lamp is controlled by alternately operating switch elements (S1, S2), typically insulated gate bipolar transistors, to supply power bursts of, for example, between 20 and 30 A during a second operating phase, separated by a first operating phase of between 0.3 A and 0.5 A at a substantially higher frequen…
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