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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:
Jan. 16, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Antonio Canova, Arezzo, IT;
Assignee:
Magnetek S.p.A., Siena, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3152 / ; 315247 ; 315244 ; 315232 ;
Abstract
The electronic reactor for discharge lamps (L) comprises a bridge rectifier (5) connected to an alternating voltage source (3); a half-bridge with two controlled switching means (11, 13) made alternately conducting to connect the said lamp (L) and the said bridge rectifier (5); a resonant load circuit (17) connected to the said half-bridge (11, 13); and a smoothing capacitor (29) connected in parallel with the half-bridge (11, 13). An auxiliary resonant circuit (33) is provided to reduce the crest factor and correct the power factor between the output (19) of the half-bridge (11, 13) and the positive pole (5A) of the bridge rectifier (5).