Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems – With cathode or cathode heater supply circuit – Discharge device and/or rectifier in the cathode or heater...
Patent
1977-07-11
1979-06-19
Smith, Alfred E.
Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
With cathode or cathode heater supply circuit
Discharge device and/or rectifier in the cathode or heater...
315102, 315105, 315106, 315107, 315171, 315172, 315174, 315176, 315205, 315209R, 315DIG5, 315DIG7, H05B 4130, H05B 41392
Patent
active
041587936
ABSTRACT:
An energizing circuit for gas discharge lamps for room or street lighting or for lights used in document copying machines and the like comprises means for continuously energizing the same at a low non-useful light producing level when such lamps are not needed by a voltage which strikes an arc and maintains a low level of ionization with an infinitesimally small current and very little energy drain. This voltage may be an AC voltage or a DC voltage supplied by a unique circuit including a number of DC voltage sources, rectifiers, voltage adjusting and current-limiting impedances and electronic switches. The lamps are energized by AC or pulsating DC supplied by the aforesaid or other electronic switches operated at a high frequency of at least about 20-30 kilo-Hertz. When pulsating DC is utilized and the switches are rendered conductive, back-biasing voltages are applied to rectifiers which disconnect one of the voltage sources and re-connect the same or another voltage source to a different terminal of the lamps which causes an increase in the current flow in the lamps, resulting in a high degree of ionization to cause the lamps to emit substantial light. High operating lamp efficiency is achieved by modulating the electronic switches at said high frequency rate and de-energizing all heater windings during normal lamp energization.
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Roberts Charles F.
Smith Alfred E.
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