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7102297 Ballast with end-of-lamp-life protection circuit  
An electronic ballast ( 10 ) for powering a lamp load comprising an even number of gas discharge lamps ( 30,32, . . . ,34,36 ) includes an inverter ( 300 ), an output circuit ( 400 ), and a...
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...
7098604 Solar powered lamp having an auxiliary startup device  
Disclosed is a solar powered lamp adopting a cold-cathode fluorescent lamp and an auxiliary startup device which can improve the efficiency of the voltaic-photo transformation when lighting the...
7098609 Discharge lamp driving circuit provided with discharge detecting pattern  
In a discharge lamp driving circuit comprising: a transformer having one end of a discharge lamp connected to one end of the secondary side thereof; a current-voltage converting circuit provided at...
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...
7098610 Incandescent light power controller with predetermined off-state impedance  
An incandescent light bulb life extender circuit is designed to attach to the screw base of a conventional light bulb or incorporated in series with the AC powering the bulb. The circuit employs a...
7095185 Fluorescent lamp electronic ballast  
A fluorescent lamp electronic ballast includes a power factor correction flyback circuit and an inverter ballast circuit. The power factor correction flyback circuit is composed of a rectifier...
7095186 Control circuit for controlling an electron-emitting device  
A control circuit for controlling an electron-emitting device is formed to draw, with a voltage applied, an excitation current being related to a number of electrons emitted. The inventive control...
7093140 Method and apparatus for configuring a voltage regulator based on current information  
A computer system includes a voltage regulator that supplies power to a component. The component may provide a signal indicating an amount of current the component consumes under a high utilization...
7091674 Rare gas fluorescent lamp device  
A lighting apparatus comprising a branch circuit wherein a light receiving cycle signal branches into a synchronizing signal and a light controlling signal, a frequency recognizing circuit which...
7091874 Temperature compensated warning light  
A temperature compensated warning light includes banks of high output light emitting diodes (LED's), one or more drivers connecting the LED banks to a control processor, and a temperature sensor...
7091673 Discharge lamp lighting device  
A discharge bulb ballast has a control circuit ( 11 ) that includes a turning point detecting unit ( 101 ) for detecting a turning point at which a bulb voltage starts rising after switching on a...
7088059 Modulated control circuit and method for current-limited dimming and color mixing of display and illumination systems  
A control circuit for a lighting system allows analog control over a first range of illumination intensities in which the intensity of the illumination source varies in proportion to the voltage...
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...
7088080 Power supply circuit for vacuum fluorescent display  
A power supply circuit for a vacuum fluorescent display includes a boosting coil, input terminal, switching transistor, PWM control circuit, boosting circuit, first filament terminal, and second...
7084582 Electronic ballast system having emergency lighting provisions and electronic chip  
An electronic ballast system is intended to operate one or more fluorescent lamps and a subsystem with universal input from 108V to 305V, a battery, and battery charger, associated logic, and a...
7084585 Discharge lamp lighting apparatus  
The discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes a high-voltage generating coil connected in series to a discharge lamp for applying a high voltage to the discharge lamp to turn on the lamp, an...
7084584 Low frequency inverter fed by a high frequency AC current source  
Apparatus driven by high-frequency AC current source, for driving an electric load with low-frequency AC current, that comprises a current splitting inductor, for generating, from the...
7084583 External electrode fluorescent lamp, back light unit using the external electrode fluorescent lamp, LCD back light equipment using the back light unit and driving device thereof  
The present invention relates to an external electrode fluorescent lamp which can provide higher degree of and more improved uniformity of brightness than those of conventional ones, and to a LCD...
7084578 System and method for preventing acoustic arc resonance in a HID lamp  
A method of preventing acoustic arc resonance (AAR) in a high frequency electronic ballast for a High-Intensity-Discharge (HID) lamp, includes the step of providing a phase modulated signal to the...
7081720 Driver circuit and method for driving electroluminescent lamp to emit light at brightness set level  
A method for driving an electroluminescent lamp to emit light at a brightness set level includes providing a variable bias voltage to the electroluminescent lamp. The variable bias voltage is...
7081721 Projection type video display apparatus  
Disclosed is a projection type video display apparatus comprising input means for inputting a power saving mode setting command, average luminance level detection means for detecting the average...
7081709 Method and apparatus for lighting a discharge lamp  
A reliable and efficient circuit for lighting a discharge lamp is described. An inverter accepts a direct current supply voltage and outputs an alternating current lamp voltage to drive the...
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...
7075252 LED driver circuit  
An LED driver circuit that includes first and second switching mechanisms. The first mechanism is in a first switching condition when a source voltage is at or below a first threshold and moves to...
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...
7075250 Three-component protective head gear powered by a rechargeable battery  
A three-component, protective headgear or helmet is provided with a battery-powered LED head lamp, which may be used by construction workers, search and rescue persons, cyclists, police, fireman,...
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...
7075237 Illumination control apparatus and failure detecting apparatus  
In an illumination control apparatus which drives headlamps in a PWM mode and automatically lights them at low power in a vehicle when the DRL executing condition is held, failure in a PWM-drive...
7071625 LED illuminator with capability of stable brightness  
An LED illuminator with the capability of stale brightness, which has the function of emergent lighting and night lighting, is disclosed. The disclosed LED illuminator has a charging unit, a...
7071634 Lighting control device having improved long fade off  
A lighting control device for controlling the light intensity level of at least one lamp is disclosed. The lighting control device includes a microcontroller and a user-actuatable switch controller...
7071632 Discharge lamp starter  
A discharge lamp starter includes a DC/DC converter. The DC/DC converter includes a forward section for producing a first output voltage that is determined by a power supply voltage and a turn...
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...
7067993 Light source control system  
A system and method for controlling an optical light source is provided. A current source drives the light source, while the voltage across and the current through the light source is measured. The...
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...
7067982 Deriving power for an external device from a fluorescent light power source  
Systems and methods are provided for deriving power for an external device from a circuit of a fluorescent light. A first circuit supplies power from a fluorescent light power source to a...
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...
7067992 Power controls for tube mounted LEDs with ballast  
A power saving device for a light emitting diode (LED) lamp mounted to an existing fixture for a fluorescent lamp having a ballast assembly and LEDs positioned within a tube and electrical power...
7067986 Frequency controlled lighting system  
A method and apparatus for illuminating lighting elements in one or more predetermined patterns. A preferred frequency controlled lighting system implementing this method includes a motion switch,...
7064499 Method for operating at least one low-pressure discharge lamp and operating device for at least one low-pressure discharge lamp  
The invention relates to a method for operating at least one low-pressure discharge lamp using an inverter, during the operation of the at least one low-pressure discharge lamp the occurrence of a...
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...
7065303 Efficient low power optical source driver and method and optical systems and devices using same  
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for driving an optical source with a current source. The optical source driver has a primary control loop having a DC—DC converter and an operational amplifier,...