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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2005
Herbert Kästle, Traunstein, DE;
Herbert Kästle, Traunstein, DE;
Abstract
A ballast for at least one lamp at least two switches arranged in series; a control circuit for alternately opening and closing the two switches; a connection for applying a supply voltage to the two switches; a resonant starting circuit coupled on the input side to the junction point between the two switches and on the output side to a first connection for the lamp, the resonant starting circuit having a resonant inductance arranged in series with the junction point between the two switches (S, S) and the first connection for the lamp, and a resonant capacitance arranged for alternating current purposes in parallel with the first and second connections for the lamp, a first braking inductance which, for alternating current purposes, is firstly arranged in series with the first of the two connections for the lamp and secondly in parallel with the resonant capacitance.