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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1996
John Edward Parry, Derby, GB;
Peter N Wood, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US);
International Rectifier Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A half bridge driver chip for driving a resonant load, such as a ballast, has first and second pairs to which an oscillation frequency timing circuit, matched to the resonant frequency of the load. A constant voltage drop circuit is connected to these input pins to vary the voltage at the pins as a linear function of the input voltage V.sub.cc. Consequently, when V.sub.cc is increasing during the start-up of the circuit, the resonant frequency is initially high but decreases to its operation value as V.sub.cc increases. This produces a soft start characteristic and a timed preheat cycle of the resonant load. In one embodiment, the constant voltage drop circuit is a zener diode; in another embodiment, it is strings of anti-parallel connected diodes.