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7109665 Three-way dimming CFL ballast  
A three-way dimming CFL ballast operates at a single high bus voltage while varying switching frequency to control lamp current. The ballast accepts three different light level input switch command...
7109667 Discharge lamp driving apparatus  
A discharge lamp driving apparatus comprises a DC power supply, a control circuit, switching elements, a step-up transformer, and a lamp current controlling circuit. In the discharge lamp driving...
7098605 Full digital dimming ballast for a fluorescent lamp  
A lamp control circuit is described, containing a power factor corrector, coupled to it a digitally controlled ballast, having power devices. The digitally controlled ballast is capable of powering...
7098606 Electronic ballast with open circuit voltage control and cable compensation  
An electronic ballast uses a voltage sampling circuit and a voltage control circuit to limit the open circuit voltage of the ballast. A lamp voltage sensing circuit is provided that uses a voltage...
7098607 Electronic ballast with lossless snubber capacitor circuit  
An improved high input voltage instant start electronic ballast uses a substantially lossless snubber circuit. The substantially lossless snubber circuit is incorporated into the ballast to reduce...
7098727 Boosting circuit  
A boosting circuit is provided that includes a reference voltage generating circuit unit to generate a reference voltage, a voltage boosting circuit to output a given boosting voltage, and a...
7098608 Lossless circuit for sampling of lamp voltage  
An electronic ballast has a resonant tank circuit that includes a tank inductor and a tank capacitor connected in series. Lossless sampling of the output voltage of the electronic ballast is...
7098612 Frequency synchronization device for LCD lamps  
A frequency synchronization device for a large LCD having a plurality of lamps as a background light source is disclosed. The device comprises a power amplification unit wherein one power...
7093962 Light emitting device and method of using same  
An apparatus and method for strategically illuminating a darkened area. The present invention may be used by law enforcement to illuminate an area without law enforcement officials having to reveal...
7095637 Method of determining working voltage of inverter  
The present invention pertains to a method of determining a working voltage of an inverter, which utilizes a rectifying method to transform an alternating current into a pulse direct current, and...
7095184 Electronic ballast for a lamp to be operated using iterative voltage pulses  
A ballast and its operating method for a dielectrically impeded discharge lamp. The ballast contains a transformer having a third winding which can be short-circuited via a switch. By so doing, the...
7095183 Control system for a resonant inverter with a self-oscillating driver  
A controller for a resonant inverter with a self-oscillating driver IC for powering AC loads, such as gas discharge lamps or regulated DC/DC converters, includes a timing circuit that generates...
7088058 Image display  
An image display device which has a display element that optically modulates an incident light for displaying an image. A lamp is a light source of the incident light to the display element. A lamp...
7088055 High efficiency controller of a gas-filled light emitting tube  
The present invention relates to a high-efficiency controller of a gas-filled light producing tube; the controller can produce signals in a form of outputs of high-frequency sine wave to soft-start...
7084832 Plasma production device and method and RF driver circuit with adjustable duty cycle  
An RF driver circuit and an orthogonal antenna assembly/configuration, are disclosed as part of a method and system for generating high density plasma. The antenna assembly is an orthogonal antenna...
7084581 Device and method for controlling a gas discharge lamp, and lighting system with gas discharge lamp and control device  
A device and a method for the control of a gas discharge lamp are disclosed. In order to detract as little as possible from lamp life in spite of the luminous flux requirements to be fulfilled...
7081708 Lighting circuit  
A lighting circuit for lighting a vehicular lamp including a plurality of light-emitting diodes, includes: a selection unit for selecting the number of light-emitting diodes to be connected in...
7081743 Intelligent power supply and control method thereof  
Intelligent power supply and control method thereof. A power supply for altering an output power by detecting a power requirement of an electronic device and the electronic device having a memory....
7078868 DC—DC converter and device for operation of a high pressure discharge lamp using said converter  
A low cost DC—DC converter which facilitates a reduction of the switching loss in a wide, variable range of the continuity ratio of the main switching device includes a direct current source; an...
7078870 Simplified topology for HID lamps  
An HID ballast includes a flyback power converter with a simplified topology that permits power factor correction while supplying constant output power to drive an inverter supplying low frequency...
7078867 DC—DC converter and device for operation of a high pressure discharge lamp using said converter  
A DC-DC converter which accomplishes a reduction of the switching loss in the wide, variable range of the continuity ratio of the main switching device includes a direct current source, an...
7077530 Projector of external power supply  
The invention is to provide a projector of external power supply, which comprises: a DC (direct current) power supply port, a step-up circuit, a voltage regulation circuit, a lamp, and an igniter....
7075245 Driving circuit for multiple cold cathode fluorescent lamps backlight applications  
The present invention provides a driving circuit for driving a light source. The driving circuit includes a serial-arranged transformers system having multiple primary windings and secondary...
7075249 Arrangement in connection with a coupling device of a fluorescent lamp  
An arrangement in connection with a coupling device of a fluorescent lamp, the coupling device comprising a supply transformer, whose secondary is coupled in parallel with a fluorescent tube, the...
7075251 Universal platform for phase dimming discharge lighting ballast and lamp  
A ballast, or power supply circuit, for gas discharge lamps of the type using IC control based gate-drive circuitry for controlling a pair of serially connected switches of a d.c.-a.c. inverter....
7075246 Discharge lamp illumination circuit  
A discharge lamp illumination circuit 1 has a DC-AC conversion circuit 3 which effects AC conversion and boosting upon receipt of a DC input, and a starter circuit 4 for supplying a start-up...
7075254 Lighting ballast having boost converter with on/off control and method of ballast operation  
A ballast for driving a gas discharge lamp comprising a rectifier stage having an alternating current (AC) input and providing a rectified output voltage, a boost converter stage receiving the...
7071762 Supply assembly for a led lighting module  
A supply assembly for an LED lighting module includes a control switch for supplying a constant current to the LED lighting module. A dual switching signal composed of low frequency bursts of high...
7071630 Closed loop magnetic boost LED driver system and method  
Current is delivered to a load using a closed-loop boost circuit topology that is suitable for LED driver applications. An inductor is charged when a transistor is active during a first operating...
7067991 Feedback sampling control circuit for lamp driving system  
The invention discloses a feedback sampling control circuit for a lamp driving system having a feedback loop, in that the feedback sampling control circuit includes a switch and an effective...
7067987 Electronic ballast with closed loop control using composite current and voltage feedback and method thereof  
An electronic control system especially for non-linear loads, such as high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps, includes an active power factor correction circuit (APFC). The system provides a power factor...
7067989 Modularized inverter control circuit  
A modularized inverter control circuit makes use of a push-pull type control IC to connect other accessory circuit units, and is packaged and disposed on a printed circuit board to accomplish...
7067988 Inverter circuit for lighting discharge lamps with reduced power consumption  
An inverter circuit for lighting discharge lamps with reduced power consumption is disclosed. The inverter circuit comprises: a transformer having a resonant circuit formed by a parasitic...
7067990 Projection type video display  
A projection type video display reduces the flicker in projection images caused by the brightness fluctuation of a light source lamp regardless of the kind of lamp used as a light source lamp. The...
7064496 State detection device  
A state detection device is disclosed that is for detecting driving states of plural loads which are connected with each other in parallel and are driven by a driving unit. The state detection...
7064494 Discharge lamp operating apparatus and self-ballasted electrodeless discharge lamp  
A discharge lamp operating apparatus includes a DC power circuit portion for outputting a DC voltage; an inverter circuit including a switching element provided with a control terminal for...
7064495 Electronic circuit and method of supplying energy to a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp  
The invention relates to an electronic circuit and a method of supplying energy to a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp H, 65, 75 . The electronic circuit comprises a line-supply input section 62,...
7061781 Circuit arrangement for operating light sources  
In a circuit arrangement for operating light sources, inexpensive technologies for power factor correction can be used in combination. A resonant capacitor in a reactance network for coupling the...
7061187 Circuit having clamped global feedback for linear load current  
A resonant circuit includes a clamped feedback signal for providing a load current signal envelope that substantially tracks an input signal. With this arrangement, circuit efficiency is enhanced...
7061190 Circuit arrangement and operating device for operating lamps  
The invention relates to circuit arrangements for operating lamps and to operating devices which contain such circuit arrangements. A first stage of a circuit arrangement according to the invention...
7055962 System and method for managing projector bulb life  
Projector bulb life is managed to achieve desired performance parameters, such as a maximum life mode or maximum brightness mode, by sensing bulb luminance and applied the sensed luminance with a...
7057357 Rapid warmup light actuator  
A rapid warmup light actuator is disclosed to solve the problems that the light actuator cannot rapidly warm up the lighting load in the prior art and that unstable light sources result from the...
7053563 Circuit arrangement for operating light sources  
In a circuit arrangement for operating light sources, inexpensive technologies for power factor correction can be used in combination. Owing to the combination of a dual charge pump and a valley...
7053564 Ballast for a discharge lamp  
The invention relates to ballast for a discharge lamp ( 16 ), comprising a direct-current supply phase ( 2 ), semiconductor switches ( 10, 11 ), operated at a high-frequency clock frequency for...
7045967 Multi-lamp actuating facility  
A lamp actuating device includes a number of lamps each having an output terminal, an inverter circuit coupled to the lamps to energize the lamps, a low frequency control unit coupled to the...
7045970 Electronic ballast for a lamp to be operated with iterative voltage pulses  
The invention relates to an electronic ballast for a dielectrically impeded discharge lamp (L), which ballast has an inductor (W 1 , W 2 , W 3 ) with a winding (W 2 ) that can be short-circuited.
7042165 Driver circuit for LED vehicle lamp  
A first vehicle lamp driver circuit for a light emitting diode (LED) array, the LED array having a first string of four LEDs in series and a second string of four LEDs in series. A first LED driver...
7042164 Self light emitting display device  
In order to realize, at a low cost, the function of an indicator which is brought to a light emitting state during a wait state, a panel 1 as a display section is constituted by self light...
7042166 Circuit arrangement for operating electric lamps  
The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for operating electric lamps ( 5 ), in particular dielectric barrier discharge lamps, having an input stage ( 1 ) in the form of a voltage-increasing...
7038594 Led driver current amplifier  
A circuit powering an electrical device based on a commanded current signal is provided. The circuit includes a linear current amplifier which sets a desired current flow. The circuit also...