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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1993
Filed:
May. 28, 1992
Wolfgang Daub, Lippstadt, DE;
Hella KG Hueck & Co., Lippstadt, DE;
Abstract
In a power-supply circuit apparatus for high pressure gas discharge lamps in motor vehicles which is fed from a vehicle battery wherein the power-supply circuit apparatus, which produces a lamp supply voltage and an ignition auxiliary voltage, has at least one voltage converter coupled to the vehicle battery and a vehicle ground connection and is electrically-conductively coupled to an ignition device for igniting and operating a high pressure gas discharge lamp, the lamp supply voltage and/or the ignition auxiliary voltage is produced by the voltage converter to be physically separated from the battery voltage of the vehicle battery and a reference voltage level for the ignition auxiliary voltage and/or the lamp supply voltage is coupled to the vehicle ground connection via a low-resistance first precision resistor for measuring purposes. This arrangement provides a power-supply circuit apparatus wherein people are best protected from electric shock when touching live parts of the power-supply circuit apparatus and wherein the power-supply circuit apparatus is safely protected from faults such as short circuits or excess currents.