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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:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
May. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 3/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 3/700 ;
Abstract
A circuit arrangement for igniting a lamp, in particular a high-pressure discharge lamp. The lamp has an ignition transformer with a primary side and a secondary side, the secondary side is connected to the lamp which is to be ignited, and the primary side is connected to an ignition switch. The ignition switch is controlled for actively disconnecting a current flowing through the primary side of the ignition transformer.