H - Electricity – 05 – B
Patent
H - Electricity
05
B
H05B 41/26 (2006.01) H05B 41/298 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2134511
A ballast circuit for a gas discharge lamp, of the type having a pair of resistively heated cathodes that are resistively heated both during a cathode pre-heat period prior to lamp turn-on, and during steady state lamp operation, is disclosed. The ballast circuit includes circuitry for providing, on a bus conductor, a d.c. bus voltage with respect to a ground, and a converter, responsive to the d.c. bus voltage, for supplying bidirectional current to a resonant load circuit. The resonant load circuit includes the gas discharge lamp, a resonant capacitor coupled between the lamp cathodes such that its voltage varies with lamp voltage, and a resonant inductor serially coupled to the resonant capacitor and cooperating therewith to set a magnitude, and resonant frequency, of the bidirectional lamp current. Circuitry is provided forpowering the resistively heated lamp cathodes, to thereby heat the cathodes. Further included is a circuit for maintaining the lamp voltage during a cathode pre-heat period below a predetermined level so as to prevent lamp turn-on during such period; such circuit includes circuitry for holding a first cathode of the lamp at a substantially constant voltage, and circuitry for clamping a second cathode of the lamp below the predetermined level. such clamping circuitry includes a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) impedance device coupled to a second cathode of the lamp, and serially connected by a positively poled clamping diode to the bus conductor, and serially connected by a negatively poled clamping diode to the ground.
Haas Kurt W.
Kachmarik David J.
Nerone Louis R.
Secen Michael M.
Craig Wilson And Company
The Laitram Corporation
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