Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems – Current and/or voltage regulation
Patent
1995-06-13
1997-01-07
Pascal, Robert
Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
Current and/or voltage regulation
315248, 315237, 315302, 313485, 313635, 313643, 313506, 313572, 313493, G05F 100
Patent
active
055920527
ABSTRACT:
A fluorescent lamp (2) having at least two phosphor coatings (12) on the surface of the sealed lamp bulb, typically an inner surface. There is variable driving means which preferentially activates one phosphor and not the other phosphors, at one arrangement or setting or configuration of the driving means, while at another setting the driving means activates in addition a different or several different phosphors. Each phosphors may be a blend of phosphors and the phosphors and/or blends may be overcoated upon one another forming multiple layers or all mixed together and applied as a one layer coating on the lamp surface. The inventive lamp uses standard fabricating techniques and materials, but allows the user to change the color temperature of the lamp by controlling parameters of the electrical driving signal, that is the, spectrum and quantity of light emitted are changed in response to the changed driving signal such that the user can arrange the light output to be more or less blue or red or to balance the longer wavelengths perceived against the shorter wavelengths perceived.
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Maya Jakob
Ravi Jagannathan
Chohen Jerry
Chow Stephen Y.
Matsushita Electric Works R&D Laboratory
Pascal Robert
Paul Edwin H.
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