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7586270 Circuit and method for the operation of miniature high pressure short-arc lamps using alternating current  
An embodiment of the invention is concerned with a circuit and a method for the generation and operation of the plasmas in High Pressure Short Arc Lamps having miniature dimensions using...
7453214 Lamp-operating unit and low-pressure mercury discharge lamp  
The present invention aims to provide an inrush current limiting resistor for suppressing inrush current, and to avoid an excessive current flowing through the inrush current limiting resistor even...
7279849 Apparatus for driving backlight of liquid crystal display  
This invention relates to a backlight driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display device, and more particularly to a backlight driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display device that includes:...
7242149 Lamp driving circuit with floating power supply driver  
A lamp driving circuit with a floating power supply driver includes a microcomputing unit, a floating power supply driver, and a driving unit. The microcomputing unit and the floating power supply...
7129650 Lighting apparatus for high intensity discharge lamp  
A lighting apparatus of high intensity discharge lamp comprises a DC power source, a series connection of a first and a second transistors; a series connection of a first and a second capacitors...
7049756 Capacitive load driving circuit, capacitive load driving method, and apparatus using the same  
A capacitive load driving circuit ( 1 ) for charging and discharging a capacitive load ( 11 ) is provided with a voltage divider ( 5 ) for dividing a power supply voltage (VH) into a plurality of...
7042167 Back light device for liquid crystal displays  
Disclosed herein is a back light device for LCDs. The back light device includes an inverter to supply an alternating current or a pulse, a plurality of fluorescent lamps to radiate visible light,...
7009346 Driving an EL panel without DC bias  
An inverter is coupled to an EL lamp by a high pass filter including a series capacitor and a shunt resistor. The resistor is coupled in parallel with the EL lamp. The high pass filter has a time...
6960891 Direct-type back light device  
The object of this invention is to provide a direct-type back light device, capable of maintaining uniform luminance, and reducing manufacturing costs and power consumption, in addition to being...
6856101 Method and apparatus for switching of parallel capacitors in an HID bi-level dimming system using voltage suppression  
Switching of parallel capacitors in an HID bi-level lighting control system is accomplished through use of transient voltage suppression across an electronic relay for discharge of residual charge...
6597128 Remote discharge lamp ignition circuitry  
A starter circuit is provided for starting an HID lamp. The circuit de-couples the high voltage starting pulse from the input lines (ballast output lines) so that the starter can function properly...
6566822 Electronic circuits for detecting filament breakage in gas discharge lamps  
Disconnection device for an electronic operating device for gas discharge lamps. The DC component is evaluated at a coupling capacitor (C 5 ) specifically via a filament. Disconnection is performed...
6515433 Gas discharge fluorescent device  
Sputtering of the cathodes of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp is reduced or eliminated by removing electrodes altogether from the sealed envelope containing the gaseous medium. Electric field is...
6414447 Discharge lamp lighting device and illuminating device  
A combination-type high frequency inverter connects an isolation leakage transformer, a smoothing condenser, a resonance condenser, a first field-effect transistor and a second field-effect...
6337543 High power cold cathode gas discharge lamp using sub-electrode structures  
A high power cold cathode gas discharge system employs two electrode structures, where each structure includes a plurality of sub-electrodes connected in parallel to a driver so that the current...
6335596 Control device of a flash type movable decorating lamp  
A control device of a flash type movable decorating lamp comprises a high voltage converting circuit, an actuating circuit, a high voltage storage capacitor, a flash displaying circuit and other...
6326738 Two wire light for electronic displays  
An apparatus for illuminating an electronic display such as an LCD. A single hot wire is connected to multiple capacitors each dedicated to a cold cathode fluorescent tube, and multiple tubes are...
6232724 Light emitting diode array  
An LED array composed of a plurality of LEDs is disposed on either side of a signal interconnection board, while metal plates are disposed on the other side of the signal interconnection board as...
6147459 Voltage-controlled ballast for gas-discharge lamps  
An electronic, externally controlled ballast has a control oscillator which feeds a fluorescent lamp via an invertor bridge and a resonant circuit. To keep the voltage constant, there are derived...
6111364 Method and device to inhibit the flash photography of a vehicle  
A device and method that inhibits the ability of photographic equipment from obtaining a recognizable picture upon its recording media, of areas of a vehicle equipped with this invention. The...
6031340 Device and method for capacitive bi-level switching of high intensity discharge lighting  
A zero current crossing capacitive switching scheme for controlling the switching of a capacitor into and out of an HID lead ballast circuit at a time when a current through the capacitor is at or...
5973447 Gridless ion source for the vacuum processing of materials  
Plasma beam apparatus and method for the purpose of vacuum processing temperature sensitive materials at high discharge power and high processing rates. A gridless, closed or non-closed...
5896015 Method and circuit for forming pulses centered about zero crossings of a sinusoid  
A circuit that forms a square wave pulse train signal wherein each pulse is centered about a zero crossing of a reference sinusoid. A first capacitor is coupled to be charged and discharged at...
5892327 Circuit arrangement for operating a discharge lamp  
A circuit arrangement according to the invention for operating a discharge lamp (I) comprises a DC/AC converter (II) provided with a series circuit with a first and a second switching element, (1,...
5834902 Discharge lamp igniting and operating curcuit having interference signal suppression from 9 KHz to 100 MHz  
A circuit arrangement for igniting and operating a discharge lamp is provided with input terminals for connecting a supply source, and a ground terminal, differential-mode and common-mode...
5736819 Parallel-tuned electronic ballast with special output voltage waveform  
Power to a self-oscillating inverter ballast is supplied from a DC voltage source through an inductor means having two separate windings on a common magnetic core--with one winding being positioned...
5731667 Hybrid sequence start ballast for an instant start discharge lamp  
In accordance with the present invention, a hybrid sequence start circuit is provided for operating a plurality of instant start lamps. The circuit utilizes two coils, a primary and a secondary,...
5701060 On-chip high frequency damping for laser diode driver chips  
A laser diode driver chip is disclosed which has a circuit to substantially reduce a ringing on a laser diode driving current generated by the laser diode driver chip. This invention identifies...
5644194 Circuit for controlling an indicator light to turn off slowly  
A circuit for turning off an indicator light operates in two phases that provide a first rapid discharge phase and a second slow discharge phase. This sequence dims the light in a visual...
5602446 Fast repetition rate (FRR) flasher  
A fast repetition rate (FRR) flasher suitable for high flash photolysis including kinetic chemical and biological analysis. The flasher includes a power supply, a discharge capacitor operably...
5594305 Power supply for use with switched anode field emission display including energy recovery apparatus  
A switching power supply 38 for use in a switched anode, field emission flat panel display includes energy recovery modules 48 R , 48 G and 48 B for recovering energy from each anode electrode 50...
5585700 Electronic ballast  
An electronic ballast for one or more F32T8 or F25T8 or F17T8 fluorescent lamps has a new design tool for efficient transfer of power to the lamp or the lamps. The design tool is constructed from...
5563473 Electronic ballast for operating lamps in parallel  
An electronic ballast for powering at least two rapid start, parallel connected fluorescent lamps. Associated with each lamp is a serially connected choke and capacitor combination. A train of...
5543690 High voltage ignition circuit for a discharge lamp  
The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for operating a discharge lamp. According to the invention the series connection of a PTC thermistor V1 with a bi-directionally acting breakdown...
5534753 High-pressure discharge lamp igniting circuit in which the voltage-raising network includes inductors  
The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for igniting a high-pressure discharge lamp (L), provided with input terminals (C,D) for connection to a commutating supply source with a square-wave...
5489823 Electronic ballast for gas discharge lamp  
A first half-bridge inverter is powered from an unfiltered full-wave-rectified ordinary 60 Hz electric utility power line voltage. This first inverter provides at a first inverter output, across...
5471118 Electronic ballast with power-factor-correcting pre-converter  
In a power-line-operated current-fed parallel-tuned electronic ballast, power-factor-correction and harmonics-reduction are attained by placing a high-frequency inductor as well as a high-frequeny...
5446348 Apparatus for providing ignition to a gas turbine engine and method of short circuit detection  
A solid state, bipolar, ignition exciter for gas turbine engines is described for delivering high energy pulses to one or more igniter plugs. A storage capacitor is charged with typically 12 to 20...
5444334 System for starting a high intensity discharge lamp  
A ballast circuit arrangement with hot restrike capabilities includes an input transformer having a primary winding receptive of line power and a secondary winding over which an output voltage is...
5434478 Electronic ballast for transilluminators and crosslinkers  
A low cost multipurpose electronic ballast for ultraviolet transilluminators and crosslinkers for starting and operating four or more ultraviolet lamps simultaneously. The electronic ballast is...
5426350 High frequency transformerless electronics ballast using double inductor-capacitor resonant power conversion for gas discharge lamps  
A novel high frequency LCLC double resonant electronic ballast has been developed for gas discharge lamp applications. The ballast consists of a half-bridge inverter which switches at zero voltage...
5426344 Electronic ballasts  
A ballast circuit for fluorescent lamp which comprises an additional D2 located just after the rectifier bridge D1 and before smoothing capacitors C5, C6. The diode D2 is matched to the value of a...
5404082 High frequency inverter with power-line-controlled frequency modulation  
An electronic high frequency supply, such as a lamp ballast, having a full-wave rectifier, a storage capacitor charged to a voltage greater than the peak of the rectifier output, and an isolating...
5396152 Electrical circuit for the pulsed operation of high-pressure gas-discharge lamps  
The Lamp (La) is connected in series with first reactive impedances (C1, . To generate pulses, one or more second reactive impedances (C3, L3; C3-L2) are located as energy storage elements in...
5387848 Fluorescent lamp ballast with regulated feedback signal for improved power factor  
A fluorescent lamp ballast having improved power factor by providing high frequency signals fed back to the a.c. side of the ballast rectifier. The feedback signal is regulated by limiting or...
5371442 Remote ballast circuit assembly  
According to the invention there is provided a remote ballast circuit assembly comprising at least one ballast circuit; a housing having a top panel, an optional perforated bottom panel, two...
5361018 Intermediate voltage cable marker with enhanced conspicuity  
An intermediate voltage or cable marker with a gas filled lamp with reflectively enhanced conspicuity comprising an inner conductive coating in an opaque shell; the shell being mountable on an the...
5349270 Transformerless fluorescent lamp operating circuit, particularly for a compact fluorescent lamp, with phase-shifted inverter control  
To eliminate the necessity for a saturated or air gap inductance to provide feedback circuit for a self-exciting oscillator including two active electronic switches (T1, T2) , for example MOSFETs,...
5247228 Fluorescent lamp ballast adaptor  
An adaptor circuit used to enable stable, flicker-free operation of T8-type fluorescent lamps in a lighting fixture which already has a standard two-lamp, series-sequence, 40 watt, rapid-start type...
5117157 Ballast circuits for discharge lamps  
A ballast circuit for the operation of a discharge lamp includes a bridge rectifier. A capacitive energy storage device and a load circuit are connected in series across the bridge rectifier. A...
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