Lamp lighting circuit
AssigneeUshio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoji Oda, Takahiro Hiraoka
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Abstract
The lamp lighting circuit prevents a malfunction in which a lamp is tuned on momentarily during an initial stage of the power input. When the power source is lit, the malfunction prevention circuit prevents the activation of the oscillation circuit and/or the driving circuit 3a until when the output control circuit 5 starts normal operation and outputs the output control signal that controls the lighting/non-lighting of the lamp. When a lamp lighting command is input to the output control circuit, the output of the oscillation circuit is transmitted to the power control element via a driving circuit, and the power control element is driven. Consequently a voltage is generated on the secondary side coil of a boosting transformer so that the lamp 1 is lit.
Claims3
A lamp lighting circuit for a rare gas fluorescent gas lamp having electrodes, in which at least one of the electrodes is provided on an external surface of a discharge container, and a fluorescent layer is provided inside of the container, and an excimer light generated by discharge is used, the lamp lighting circuit, comprising:
- an oscillation circuit;
- a power control circuit having a power control element;
- a boosting transformer that generates a high voltage applied to the rare gas fluorescent gas lamp according to switching of the power control element;
- wherein the power control element is controlled by the oscillation circuit, and transmits power to a boosting transformer;
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- an output control circuit that controls lighting of the rare gas fluorescent lamp,
- wherein the lighting circuit has a malfunction prevention circuit that inactivates lighting operation of the lamp after the power is lit until the output control circuit starts normal operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.