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7595490 Charged particle beam emitting device and method for operating a charged particle beam emitting device  
A method for operating a charged particle beam emitting device and, in particular, an electron beam emitting device including a cold field emitter is provided. The method includes the steps of...
7586730 Electron bombardment heating apparatus and temperature controlling apparatus  
An electron bombardment heating apparatus, in which thermions emitted from filaments are accelerated and impinge upon a heating plate, so as to heat the heating plate, wherein a peripheral wall of...
7586098 Ion stripper device made of carbon nanotubes or fullerenes  
A system and method for developing a solid state stripper device is described that more effectively strips off negative carbon ions to produce positively charged carbon ions. In one embodiment the...
7576494 High voltage discharge lamp lighting method, lighting apparatus and image device using that lighting apparatus  
The present invention applies to provide a lighting method of a high pressure discharge lamp dedicated particularly for image equipments in which re-lighting when turning ON the switch again...
7560868 Ballast with filament heating and ignition control  
A ballast ( 10 ) for powering at least one gas discharge lamp ( 70 ) having heatable filaments ( 72,74 ) includes an inverter ( 200 ), a resonant output circuit ( 400 ) coupled between inverter (...
7544951 Electron gun assembly  
A device which employs an electron beam, for performing a desired function, includes an electron gun for generating the electron beam. The electron gun includes a barrel shaped rotatable structure...
7355348 Ballast for a discharge lamp having a continuous-operation control circuit  
The invention relates to a novel ballast for a discharge lamp, in which a continuous-operation control circuit is brought out of operation when a physical operation, which defines a preheating...
7339322 Apparatus and methods for making spectroscopic measurements of cathode fall in fluorescent lamps  
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for measuring cathode fall within a fluorescent lamp that contains an electrode and a gas. A level of cathode fall associated with the electrode may be...
7268496 Discharge lamp lighting device and lighting system  
When a discharge lamp is preheated, impedance of a filament electrode of the discharge lamp is computed. In accordance with the computed impedance, preheating and lighting of the discharge lamp are...
7256549 Three electrode arc-discharge lamp  
A method of operating an arc discharge lamp that has first and second electrodes is described. First, the first electrode is heated with a third electrode with a first arc until the first electrode...
7199526 Electronic ballast  
An electronic ballast capable of extending life of the fluorescent lamp is disclosed. The electronic ballast according to the present invention comprises a DC/AC converter, a fluorescent lamp, a...
7106008 Flashlight control circuit  
A flashlight control circuit is provided to control the flash according to an exposure voltage and a predetermined voltage. Either a first comparator, second comparator and logic gate or a...
6965237 Device for scanning or detecting electromagnetic waves  
A detecting device for detecting electromagnetic waves generated by electric facilities includes a support having a peripheral surface for attaching a number of wave detectors which detect the...
6936970 Method and apparatus for a unidirectional switching, current limited cutoff circuit for an electronic ballast  
In accordance with one aspect of the present application, a lamp inverter circuit includes a switching portion that converts a bus voltage signal into an alternating current signal. An input...
6838834 Lighting system and electric power supplier for the same  
An electronic ballast of a lighting system includes an output power supplier and a heater power supplier. The output power supplier is configured to supply electric power to a lamp of the lighting...
6812920 Display device  
A display device which is suitable for connection to a computer etc. allows an operator to freely set a power saving mode to suppress the wasteful consumption of power. Power reduction means...
6750619 Electronic ballast with filament detection  
A fluorescent lamp electronic ballast for use with fluorescent lamps of the preheat or heated filament type is provided. The electronic ballast includes a multiple output DC to DC converter with a...
6603275 Electronic starter for fluorescent lamps  
An electronic starter for fluorescent lamp has a preheating circuit for controlling the preheating of the fluorescent tube and a power switch and locking circuit for cutting off the current to the...
6552494 Fluorescent lamp driver circuit  
Herein described is a driver circuit of a fluorescent lamp having a first and a second electrode and igniting when the voltage between the first and second Electrode exceeds a given threshold...
6504534 CRT display unit and power supply control method therefor  
When a “screen saver” operates to display a homogeneous black picture image after the same image is continuously displayed on a CRT for a predetermined period of time, a power supply for a CRT...
6495979 Power-saving apparatus and method for computer peripheral devices  
A power-saving apparatus comprises: a heater; a control unit for detecting at least two power-saving commands, and for outputting a first power-saving control signal and a second power-saving...
6456009 Adaptive heater voltage algorithm and control system for setting and maintenance of the heater voltage of a vacuum electron device  
An adaptive heater voltage algorithm and control system for setting and maintaining a vacuum electron device (VED) heater voltage, such as that of a klystron. An algorithm and control system are...
6417630 Circuit arrangement  
A ballast circuit for operating a lamp having preheatable electrodes. The frequency of a high frequency bridge inverter is controlled by a control circuit which has input connections to one of the...
6404421 Heater voltage generation  
A heater circuit (H) according to the invention comprises a stabilizing power supply (SPS) with a control input (CT) which receives a control signal (Cs) to control the value at which the heater...
6320319 Charged particle generating apparatus  
A charged particle generating apparatus including a first electrode, a second electrode, a current source supplying a current to the first electrode for heating the first electrode and a voltage...
6211620 Ballast for fluorescent lamp  
A ballast for a fluorescent lamp includes a high frequency power source circuit for supplying a preheat start type fluorescent lamp with preheating and lighting current via an inductor. The high...
6114810 Electronic ballast circuit for fluorescent lamps which have a high Q factor and high resonance voltage  
An electronic ballast circuit for fluorescent lamps, said circuit comprises an anti-interfering circuit, a rectifying circuit, a filtering circuit, a frequency-converting circuit and a resonant...
6091187 High emittance electron source having high illumination uniformity  
Direct and indirect electron bombardment provide a sufficiently high degree of temperature uniformity across the emitting surface of a large-area electron source for an electron beam projection...
6084355 Circuit for controlling power supplied to a cathode heater of a cathode ray tube  
A cathode heater of a cathode ray tube is rapidly energized either when turning on electric power or when returning to a power-on state mode of the Display Power Management System (DPMS) in an...
6008587 Fluorescent lamp electronic ballast control circuit  
An electronic ballast control apparatus and method for fluorescent lamps includes applying a heating current through the filaments of the lamp, and delaying the application of arc current through...
5998812 Amplifying-gate thyristor with an increased hold current  
An amplifying-gate thyristor having an increased integrated circuit includes a main thyristor and an amplifying thyristor. The amplifying thyristor is of the gate turnoff-type. The main thyristor...
5952832 Diagnostic circuit and method for predicting fluorescent lamp failure by monitoring filament currents  
A diagnostic circuit monitors filament currents in hot cathode fluorescent lamps for detecting when the filament erodes to the point of breaking. When such a filament failure is detected,...
5923126 Fluorescent lamp electronic ballast with rapid voltage turn-on after preheating  
An electronic ballast for a fluorescent lamp includes a delay triggered circuit which, upon expiration of a predetermined period during which the lamp filaments, constituting opposite electrodes of...
5854538 Circuit arrangement for electrode pre-heating of a fluorescent lamp  
A circuit arrangement used with electronic ballast equipment has an inverter which supplies a high-frequency half-bridge voltage to at least one load circuit having a lamp throttle, a fluorescent...
5841240 Efficient discharge lamp electrode heating circuit operable over wide temperature and power range  
A circuit arrangement for operating a discharge lamp comprising input terminals for connection to a supply voltage source. A load branch B has terminals for holding the discharge lamp and includes...
5821696 Method and circuit to start and operate high pressure discharge lamps  
Start and operation of high pressure discharge lamps, in which a high-frequency starting voltage U HF and an operating voltage U B are furnished to the lamp electrodes includes the steps of: 1)...
5808425 Method for controlling the emission current of an electron source and an electron source having a control circuit for controlling the emission current  
The invention is directed to a method for controlling the emission current of an electron source and to a correspondingly controlled electron source. For this purpose, a parallel circuit comprising...
5798614 Fluorescent lamp filament drive technique  
A method and apparatus for driving a fluorescent lamp is described wherein the fluorescent lamp is operated in the phanotronic, or hot-cathode, mode. The filament preheat current is decoupled from...
5739640 Low line voltage detection control module and method for a fluorescent lamp  
The present invention discloses a control module that provides improved control over the ignition of a fluorescent lamp. In one aspect, the control module determines whether the lamp is lit and,...
5734231 Instant lighting type fluorescent lamp lighting circuit  
A fluorescent lamp lighting circuit is disclosed in which an instant lighting is possible, and a high reliability is ensured. Further, the circuit is compact, and the cost is low. The fluorescent...
5726534 Preheat current control circuit based upon the number of lamps detected  
A feedback control system of ballast which has function to detect the number of lamp and is applied to an integrated circuit to control the ballast for a fluorescent lamp etc, and provides the...
5677598 Low-pressure mercury discharge lamp with color temperature adjustment  
A low-pressure mercury discharge lamp with a lamp vessel having a first lamp vessel portion (La1) with a first electrode (E11) and a first luminescent layer which radiates white light of a first...
5656891 Gas discharge lamp ballast with heating control circuit and method of operating same  
There is provided a ballast for at least one gas discharge lamp having an inverter which has two switches (S1, S2) in series, connected to a d.c. voltage source and switched with complementary...
5646487 Lighting device for gas discharge tube with insulated discharge shielding member  
The present invention is to provide a gas discharge tube which is properly lighted to improve the reproducibility of a satisfactory light emission state. The gas discharge tube includes an envelop...
5623184 Lamp circuit with filament current fault monitoring means  
A ballast arrangement is disclosed for use in powering fluorescent and other gas discharge lamps. The ballast arrangement controls the arc voltage provide by an arc voltage oscillator independent...
5606226 Filament power supply for static vacuum fluorescent display  
A DC power supply 44 for providing a desired filament voltage to a static filament in a vacuum fluorescent display 16 includes a voltage regulator 46 with an input and an output. The input couples...
5592054 Fluorescent lamp ballast with selectable power levels  
Disclosed is a power-level selection circuit in combination with a lamp circuit including a fluorescent lamp having first and second cathodes with resistive-heating filaments each spaced at a...
5589740 Semiconductor-controlled operating circuit for one or more low-pressure discharge lamps, typically fluorescent lamps  
To operate one or more serially connected low-pressure discharge lamps, tcally fluorescent lamps, a preheating circuit is provided to preheat the electrodes of the lamps (E1, E2, E3, E4), which...
5583399 Ballast for one or more fluorescent lamps including threshold sensitive filament voltage preheating circuitry  
To control preheating current flow through a fluorescent lamp supplied from high-frequency inverter (T1, T2, A) and a series resonance circuit, an electronic switching control circuit (SC) is...
5583396 Optical device with metal halide discharge lamp having enhanced starting property  
A metal halide lamp is employed, as a light source, in an optical device such as, for example, an illuminator or an image display. The optical device includes a discharge tube filled with mercury,...
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