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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1992
Kazuo Tanaka, Neyagawa, JP;
West Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An electronic flash unit being effective in emitting light repeatedly at high speed by boosting an applying voltage between main electrodes of a flash discharge tube twice or more as much as a charged voltage in a main capacitor connected parallel to a high voltage DC power source, wherein the electronic flash device has a plurality of boosting capacitors connected with the flash discharge tube through plural second control switches respectively and a common circuit including an insulated gate bipolar transistor IGBT, the main capacitor and a first control switch for selective excitations, and also connected with a primary winding of a trigger transformer via a trigger capacitor, a diode and so on for charges during being un-excited, and wherein the electronic flash device has a switch control device for selectively turning on one of the plural second switches and for simultaneously turning on the first switch so as to supply a high voltage to the flash discharge tube being combined with the charged voltages of the boosting capacitors and the main capacitor after second et seq light emission operations.