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7626341 Discharge lamp lighting apparatus  
A discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes an input power supply, a power supply circuit, a bridge circuit having switching elements that performs AC operation of a discharge lamp, a lighting...
7619369 Method and circuit arrangement for operating a discharge lamp  
A method and a circuit arrangement for operating a discharge lamp, in particular during the first hours of operation after lamp manufacture, are described. The method and the circuit arrangement...
7605549 System and method for current and/or temperature control of light fixture  
A system for current and/or temperature control of light fixtures includes a sensor in communication with a light fixture, sense a current flow or a temperature of the light fixture, and...
7598682 Current regulator apparatus and methods  
An apparatus according to the present invention provides regulated pulsed current to an LED from a voltage source such as a rectified AC voltage. The present inventions provide methods for...
7589480 High intensity discharge lamp ballast  
A low current loss ballast operates a high intensity discharge lamp with or without radioactive krypton. A by-pass capacitor in conjunction with a resonant strike circuit limits high frequency...
7589475 Electric lamp with enhanced dependability  
The lamp comprises at least one light-emitting diode and an electronic power switch connected in series between a power source and the light-emitting diode. The electronic power switch is...
7586267 Inverter system and detecting device thereof  
A detecting device of an inverter system comprises at least one detecting element and at least one comparative unit. The detecting element is electrically connected to any one of the connecting...
7557515 Simplified ballast control circuit  
A ballast control circuit for use with a fluorescent lamp in accordance with an embodiment of the present application includes a voltage controlled oscillator operable to provide an operating...
7545369 Methods and apparatus to improve efficiency in cold cathode fluorescent light controllers  
Methods and apparatus to improve efficiency in cold cathode fluorescent light (CCFL) controllers using a full bridge resonant implementation. The secondary of a transformer drives the CCFL, with...
7535184 Photopolymerization apparatus  
A light-weight, portable photocuring device possesses a single light emitting diode (LED). The single LED backed with a heat sink is driven by a driving circuit and controlled by a timing circuit....
7535183 Apparatus and method to provide a hybrid linear/switching current source, such as for high-efficiency, wide dimming range light emitting diode (LED) backlighting  
A hybrid power supply provides powers to a load, such as a light emitting diode (LED) backlight display, using pulse wave modulation (PWM) enable signal to control activation of a linear power...
7531965 Discharge centering lamp lighting device  
A discharge lamp lighting device can reduce a variation in luminous flux at the time when the polarity of a voltage to be applied to the discharge lamp is inverted, prevent an excessively large...
7528558 Ballast with ignition voltage control  
A ballast ( 10 ) for powering a lamp load ( 70 ) comprising one or more gas discharge lamps ( 72,74 ) includes an inverter ( 200 ), a resonant output circuit ( 400 ), and a control circuit ( 600 )....
7514878 High frequency electronic ballast with sine wave oscillator  
A high frequency sinusoidal wave is generated and applied directly to a gas discharge lamp in a power efficient electronic ballast. Uniting a high frequency current fed oscillator with a...
7498750 Gas discharge lamp driving circuit and method with resonating sweep voltage  
A gas discharge lamp is driven using a high frequency lamp current. A lamp driving circuit comprises a high frequency bridge circuit for supplying said lamp current. To prevent the lamp from...
7495398 Discharge lamp lighting apparatus  
A discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes: an inverter circuit including a switch circuit and a high-voltage transformer; a step-up circuit connected at the input stage of the inverter circuit;...
7486030 Universal input voltage device  
A universal input voltage device is presented which may receive a wide range of regulated and unregulated input voltages, both DC and a wide range of variable frequency AC, and output a desired...
7482758 Magnetic low voltage dimmer  
The present invention provides a magnetic low voltage dimmer circuit that reduces DC magnetizing current which may be present in a dimmer system. The dimmer circuit delivers an RMS value of an AC...
7474063 Anti-cycling control system for luminaires  
An anti-cycling luminaire control system may detect repeated lamp-off conditions and interrupt power to the lamp and provide an indication of lamp cycling after a predetermined number of lamp-off...
7466083 Protective device for vehicle electronic apparatus  
A protective device for a vehicle electronic apparatus, which includes an inverter for converting a direct-current voltage into an alternating-current voltage for the vehicle electronic apparatus,...
7456587 Digital controlled light source driving apparatus  
A digital controlled light source driving apparatus includes a digital processor and a step-up circuit. The digital processor has a digital switching-signal generating module and a protecting...
7456581 Power supply, backlight apparatus, and display device  
A power supply includes a light source, a signal converting unit converting an externally supplied AC voltage into a DC voltage, a DC-DC converting unit converting a magnitude of the DC voltage,...
7449841 Charge limited high voltage switch circuits  
High voltage switches are configured with a junction transistor driven with a transformer coupled AC drive signal in the common base configuration or driven by a capacitor coupled charge pump. The...
7443106 Circuit with switch-off device for the operation of light sources  
Circuit with a switch-off device for the operation of light sources The invention relates to a circuit with a switch-off device for the operation of light sources (Lp), have the following...
7429830 Power control of a fluorescent lamp  
A fluorescent lamp ( 2 ), in particular a backlight lamp of a display device, is supplied with an alternating voltage, a frequency and an amplitude of which being greater during ignition than...
7420333 Mixed mode control for dimmable fluorescent lamp  
A mixed mode control for dimmable fluorescent lamp provides a smooth and continuous control of output of the lamp. A load threshold, below which the output of the discharge lamp could not be...
7402960 LED-based lamp apparatus  
A LED-based lamp apparatus includes a LED unit having multiple LEDs connected in series, a step-up circuit for stepping up a power supply voltage by a switching action of a switching element to...
7397196 Circuit arrangement for preventing high peak currents  
A driver for HID lamps includes four switches and generates a constant DC-current that is commutated at a low frequency. The driver includes a filter capacitor. The occurrence of peak currents due...
7394212 Inverter and inverter unit thereof  
An inverter unit including a converter, a transformer, a feedback circuit and an open lamp lock circuit is provided. The converter receives a drive signal, and outputs a duty voltage signal...
7388335 Apparatus for providing a sinusoidally amplitude-modulated operating voltage, lighting system and method for generating an amplitude-modulated voltage  
In the case of an apparatus for providing a sinusoidally amplitude-modulated operating voltage, two switches are arranged in the form of a half bridge, and an LC element is arranged downstream of...
7382093 Device for operation of a discharge lamp of the short arc type  
A device for operating a discharge lamp of the short arc type having a feed device which supplies a direct current to the discharge lamp when operation starts and an alternating current afterwards,...
7372214 Apparatus and method for driving lamp of liquid crystal display device  
A lamp driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display includes a plurality of lamps arranged with a predetermined distance between adjacent lamps; a comparator to compare output voltages of lamps...
7352134 Lamp containing fixed reverse phase switching power supply with time-based phase pulse triggering control  
A lamp contains a lamp voltage conversion circuit within the lamp and connected to a lamp terminal. The voltage conversion circuit includes a phase-control clipping circuit that clips a load...
7348734 Method for protecting a ballast from an output ground-fault condition  
A method ( 700 ) for protecting a ballast from an output ground-fault condition includes the steps of applying power to the ballast (step 710 ), providing a startup delay period for a DC-to-DC...
7321206 LED driving apparatus  
An apparatus for driving an LED is provided. The driving apparatus may have an LED unit including at least one LED, and a current controlling unit for controlling the magnitude of current flowing...
7315130 Switching control for inverter startup and shutdown  
An electronic ballast circuit for a lamp is described, wherein the ballast comprises a power factor correction circuit coupled to an inverter circuit. The inverter circuit is further coupled to a...
7312588 Ballast with frequency-diagnostic lamp fault protection circuit  
A ballast ( 20 ) for powering one or more gas discharge lamps ( 70,72,74,76 ) comprises an inverter ( 200 ) and a lamp fault protection circuit ( 400 ). Inverter ( 200 ) has an operating frequency...
7288898 Automotive high intensity discharge lamp ballast circuit  
An electronic ballast for driving a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp is provided. The electronic ballast includes a voltage boost stage for receiving a DC input voltage and outputting a boosted...
7247996 Projector  
The present invention is directed to decrease temperature rise in a power supply circuit in a standby mode by using existing signals and circuits while suppressing cost. In a power supply circuit...
7245088 Power control circuit for controlling rated power supplied to a load  
A power control circuit includes a power switch unit operable so as to enable and disable supply of an input voltage from an external power source to an LC circuit, a voltage detecting unit for...
7242150 Dimmer having a power supply monitoring circuit  
A two-wire dimmer for control of a lighting load from an alternating-current (AC) power source includes a semiconductor switch, a power supply, and a control circuit. The power supply includes an...
7218062 Protective device and a CCFL driving system used thereon  
A protective device and a CCFL driving system using the same are provided. The protective device employs a short detecting circuit to receive a high AC power at the high terminal of the CCFL...
7208884 Discharge lamp lighting circuit with an open protection circuit  
A discharge lamp lighting circuit includes an open protection circuit. The discharge lamp lighting circuit includes an open protection circuit and an over-voltage detecting circuit. The open...
7208882 Lighting device for discharge lamp  
A lighting device for high-pressure discharge lamp for lighting the high-pressure discharge lamp by lowering or raising a DC voltage applied to an input side by a DC/DC converter circuit, then...
7170235 Circuit arrangement with a separate resonant igniter for a high-pressure discharge lamp  
In a bridge circuit for operating a high pressure discharge lamp an additional switching element, a control circuit for driving the additional switching element, a resonant inductor and a resonant...
7157862 Protection device for a chopping supply and a vehicle lighting device  
The invention concerns a protection device for a chopping supply of the type comprising a voltage converter whose secondary is connected to a load such as a light source of the xenon lamp type, and...
7154232 Ballast control IC with multi-function feedback sense  
A multi-function feedback sense input in an electronic ballast control indicates a number of lamp faults on the basis of lamp parameters exceeding specified thresholds. An end of life detection is...
7138769 Device for operation of a high pressure discharge lamp and a projector device  
A device for operating a discharge lamp of the alternating current operating type has a high pressure discharge lamp with a silica glass discharge vessel in which a pair of opposed electrodes are...
7126287 Lamp with integral voltage converter having phase-controlled dimming circuit with fuse-resistor network for reducing RMS load voltage  
An incandescent lamp includes a lamp voltage conversion circuit within the lamp and connected to a lamp terminal, where the voltage conversion circuit converts a first line voltage at the lamp...
7116084 Step-up converter having power factor correction  
A step-up converter has a power factor correction, has an input for connection to a supply voltage, in particular a rectified AC voltage; an inductor, a diode and a storage capacitor, which are...
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