US5565743A
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Lighting circuit for discharge lamp
Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co Ltd
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Filing: 1995-08-30
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Granted: 1996-10-15
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Expires: 2015-08-30
Abstract
Abstract A lighting circuit, which is lit with a voltage with a square wave, has a DC booster circuit, a bridge type DC-AC converter and an inductor provided at the subsequent stage of the DC-AC converter. A metal halide lamp is connected in series to the inductor. Another inductor and a capacitor are provided between the DC booster circuit and the DC-AC converter. A series circuit of a resistor and a diode is connected in parallel to the second inductor. This structure generates a resonance voltage having a high peak value to compensate for a re-ignition voltage of a discharge lamp which is produced when the polarity of the square-wave voltage is switched, thereby preventing the lighting failure of the discharge lamp immediately after the lighting starts.
Inventors
- 👤 Masayasu Yamashita
- 👤 Goichi Oda
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-06 13:05
CPC Classifications
H; H05; H05B; H05B41/00; H05B41/14; H05B41/26; H05B41/28; H05B41/288; H05B41/2885; H05B41/2886; H05B41/2881; H05B41/2882; H05B41/292; H05B41/2928; H05B41/36; H05B41/38; H05B41/382; H05B41/388; Y; Y02; Y02B; Y02B20/00; Y10; Y10S; Y10S315/00; Y10S315/05; Y10S315/07
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
172 words
A lighting circuit for a discharge lamp comprising: a DC power supply circuit section including a smoothing capacitor; a bridge type DC-AC converter provided at a subsequent stage of said DC power supply circuit section; a first inductance element provided at a subsequent stage of said DC-AC converter with a discharge lamp connected in series to said first inductance element to be lit with a voltage having a square wave; a second inductance element provided between said DC power supply circuit section and said DC-AC converter; a capacitor connected to an input stage of said DC-AC converter in series to said second inductance element; and current compensation means provided in parallel to said second inductance element in such a manner that when an input voltage to said DC-AC converter becomes smaller than an output voltage of said DC power supply circuit section, an amount of current supply to said DC-AC converter from said DC power supply circuit section is greater than an amount of current supply effected by said second inductance element.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
172 words
A lighting circuit for a discharge lamp comprising: a DC power supply circuit section including a smoothing capacitor; a bridge type DC-AC converter provided at a subsequent stage of said DC power supply circuit section; a first inductance element provided at a subsequent stage of said DC-AC converter with a discharge lamp connected in series to said first inductance element to be lit with a voltage having a square wave; a second inductance element provided between said DC power supply circuit section and said DC-AC converter; a capacitor connected to an input stage of said DC-AC converter in series to said second inductance element; and current compensation means provided in parallel to said second inductance element in such a manner that when an input voltage to said DC-AC converter becomes smaller than an output voltage of said DC power supply circuit section, an amount of current supply to said DC-AC converter from said DC power supply circuit section is greater than an amount of current supply effected by said second inductance element.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
37 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 1, wherein said current compensation means has a semiconductor switch element, which conducts only in a direction from said DC power supply circuit section to said DC-AC converter, and a resistor.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
27 words
The fighting circuit according to claim 1 or 2, wherein an inductance of said second inductance element is greater than an inductance of said first inductance element.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
21 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 3, wherein said semiconductor switch element is a diode connected in series to said resistor.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
71 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 4, wherein said resistor includes a PNP transistor having a base, an emitter connected to one end of said second inductance element and a collector connected to an anode of said diode having a cathode connected to the other end of said second inductance element, and two resistors respectively connected between said base and emitter of said PNP transistor and between said base collector thereof.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
68 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 4, wherein said resistor is a transistor and a voltage detector is further provided for obtaining a voltage difference between a voltage at one end of said second inductance element and a voltage at the other end thereof or a detection signal equivalent to said voltage difference and sending an output signal of said voltage detector to a base of said transistor.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
40 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 1, wherein said DC-AC converter comprises a bridge type driver section having four N channel field-effect transistors, and a drive control section for sending a switch control signal to said N channel field-effect transistors.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
52 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 7, wherein said N channel field-effect transistors include a first pair of transistors connected in series to each other and a second pair of transistors connected in series to each other, said first pair of transistors being arranged in parallel to said second pair of transistors.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
29 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 7, wherein said driver section further includes four damper diodes respectively connected between drains and sources of said four N channel field-effect transistors.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
34 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 1, wherein said first inductance element is a secondary winding of a trigger transformer provided in an igniter circuit provided at a subsequent stage of said DC-AC converter.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
28 words
The lighting circuit according to claim 9, wherein said first inductance element is connected between a node between said second pair of transistors and an AC output terminal.
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