Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Motorola Corporation

Jeffrey Lord

Kevin Douglas Moore

Bernd Clauberg

Subramanian Muthu

Thomas P Gall

Seymour Perkins, Iii

An electronic ballast with remote capacitor placement includes a first housing (); a second housing (); an AC/DC converter (); a DC bus () operably connected to the AC/DC converter (); a lamp driver () operably connected to the DC bus (); and a storage capacitor () connected to the DC bus () with capacitor wires (). The AC/DC converter (), the DC bus (), and the lamp driver () are disposed in the first housing (); the storage capacitor () is disposed in the second housing (); and the first housing () is thermally isolated and physically separated from the second housing ().

Electronic blast with remote capacitor placement

An electronic control unit (ECU) includes a flexible circuit substrate having a first partition interconnected to a third partition by a second, flexible partition. The electronic control unit further includes a rigidizer having a first partition interconnected to a third partition by a second partition. When the ECU is twice folded, the second, flexible partition of the circuit substrate assumes an approximate 'U'-shape, resulting in a reduced cracking and splitting rate than the prior art. In various embodiments of the present invention, the assumption of a 'U'-shaped fold in the second, flexible partition of the circuit substrate is facilitated by multiple apertures in a second rigidizer partition, by a depression in a second rigidizer partition, or by non-slidably affixing a first circuit substrate partition to a first rigidizer partition via a first adhesive and non-slidably affixing a third circuit substrate partition to a third rigidizer partition via a second adhesive.

Electronic control unit

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Jeffrey Lord