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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:
May. 22, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Johannes A van Vliet, Eindhoven, NL;
Auke G van der Kooi, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
315106 ; 315101 ; 315290 ; 315D / ;
Abstract
The invention relates to starting and supplying a low-pressure discharge lamp which comprises two electrodes between which a main discharge path is formed, a shunt path being electrically in parallel with at least a portion of said main discharge path. In accordance with the invention the lamp is started by means of a glow-discharge starter which is shunted by a VDR the threshold voltage of which is lower than a value determined by the geometry of the shunt path, and is higher than the minimum voltage for starting a discharge in the main discharge path. The discharge then only starts in the main discharge path.