System for providing electrical power to several gas discharge tubes
AssigneeTransfotec International LTEE
InventorsRobert Beland, Pascal Kaufmann
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Abstract
A method and a system for providing electrical power to several gas discharge tubes are disclosed. The system includes a master power module and several high-voltage modules. The master power module is constructed and arranged to provide high-frequency and low-voltage power to the high-voltage modules. Each high-voltage module, in turn, provides high-frequency and high-voltage power to a gas discharge tube. The high-voltage modules include step-up transformers with their primary side connected in series to the output of the master power module and their secondary sides connected to the gas discharge tubes.
Claims25
A system for providing electrical power to several gas discharge tubes, comprising:
- a master power module constructed and arranged to provide high-frequency and low-voltage power via standard electrical wires to several high-voltage modules;
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- each said high-voltage module, including a step-up transformer, constructed to receive said high-frequency and low-voltage power in a primary side of the step-up transformer and provide high-frequency and high-voltage power from a secondary side of the step-up transformer to electrodes of a gas discharge tube via high-voltage wires;
- said high-voltage modules having their primary sides connected in series to the master power module.
A method for providing electrical power to several gas discharge tubes, including:
- generating a high-frequency and low-voltage power signal;
- providing the high-frequency and low-voltage power signal via a standard electrical wire to several high-voltage modules, each of the high-voltage modules including a step-up transformer with a primary side and a secondary side, the high-voltage modules having the primary sides connected in series to an inverter type power supply;
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- providing a high-frequency and high-voltage power signal from the secondary sides to the gas discharge tubes.
A system for providing electrical power to several gas discharge tubes, comprising:
- a master power means for providing high-frequency and low-voltage power via standard electrical wires to several high-voltage supply means;
- each said high-voltage supply means including a step-up transformer with a primary side and a secondary side, said high-voltage supply means having their primary sides connected in series to said master power means;
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- said high-voltage supply means for receiving said high-frequency and low-voltage power in said primary side and providing high-frequency and high-voltage power from said secondary side to electrodes of a gas discharge tube via high-voltage wiring means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.