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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nicholas O Linden, Cleveland, OH (US);
Assignee:
The Nuarc Company, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
315308 ; 315208 ; 315D / ; 323246 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to power supplies, and more particularly, to a power supply which is particularly suitable for controlling a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp. In particular, the present invention relates to an HID lamp power supply which provides fast warm up for a cold lamp, regulation against line voltage fluctuations and a lamp starting circuit which provides extremely fast restart when the lamp is hot and has been turned off momentarily.