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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tooru Notsu, Numazu, JP;
Assignee:
Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd., Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ; H02K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
315 76 ; 3152 / ; 315243 ; 315302 ; 310 73 ; 310113 ;
Abstract
An internal combustion engine-driven discharge lamp lighting apparatus including an internal combustion engine and a generator driven by the internal combustion engine to generate an output voltage and capable of lighting a high-voltage discharge lamp such as a high-voltage mercury lamp, a metal halide lamp or the like without using any ballast including a leakage transformer, to thereby eliminate problems due to incorporation of the ballast therein.