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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1994
Dal-Young Jeon, Bucheon, KR;
Kyung-Ha Jee, Bucheon, KR;
Nak-Choon Choi, Bucheon, KR;
Bok-Ki Song, Bucheon, KR;
Dong-Myeong Shin, Bucheon, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
A zero-voltage switching type electronic ballast for a fluorescent lamp includes a pair of capacitors connected in series between first and second nodes of a DC power source; a pair of switching devices whose current passages are connected in series between the first and second nodes of the DC power source; a load resonant circuit portion having a serial resonant circuit between the connection node of the pair of capacitors and the connection node of the pair of switching devices, and a discharge lamp; capacitors each connected in parallel to the current passage of the switching devices; a driving transformer having a secondary side which includes first and second windings each connected to the respective switching devices and having opposite polarities, and a third winding having the same polarity as the first winding and connected between the connection node of the pair of switching devices and the load resonant circuit, and a primary side having a fourth winding to which a switching control signal of a predetermined high frequency is applied. A switching control signal generating circuit compares a comparison signal of a predetermined high frequency with first and second reference.