Method for driving of a fluorescent lighting and a ballast...

Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems – Current and/or voltage regulation – Automatic regulation

Reexamination Certificate

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07855519

ABSTRACT:
A method of driving a fluorescent light, having: (a) receiving and full-wave rectifying commercial AC power; (b) dividing phases of the AC power full-wave rectified at step (a) depending on voltage magnitude, and performing switching control such that low-voltage portions of the divided voltages, having low phases, are used as heating power for heating filaments of a fluorescent tube, and high-voltage portions of the divided voltages, having high phases, are used as discharge voltage of the fluorescent tube; (c) switching on the low-voltage portions having low phases as the heating power for heating the filaments of the fluorescent tube in response to a signal output at step (b); and (d) switching on the high-voltage portions having high phases as the lighting power of the fluorescent tube in response to the signal output at step (b).

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