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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:
Dec. 09, 1997
Filed:
May. 26, 1995
David A Roederer, Frankfort, KY (US);
Norman D Neal, Loveland, OH (US);
Webster Heating and Specialty Products, Inc., Frankfort, KY (US);
Abstract
The power supply, well suited for powering a metal halide lamp, includes a rectifier with an AC input and a DC output. A power transformer has its primary winding connected to the DC output and its secondary winding connected to the lamp. A pulse-width-modulated (PWM) controller is coupled to the primary winding for controlling the flow of power therethrough. A smoothing circuit is connected to the lamp for reducing the rate of change of the current flowing through the lamp. Avoiding filtering of the rectifier output, maintaining a constant pulse width of the PWM controller throughout the period of the AC input power and filtering switching-frequency current components from the input to the rectifier provides a sinusoidal input current to the power supply which is substantially in phase with the input voltage. Such supply has a power factor of over 99%.
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