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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2004
Masakazu Ushijima, Nakano, JP;
Minoru Kijima, Ota, JP;
Masakazu Ushijima, Nakano, JP;
Minoru Kijima, Ota, JP;
Masakazu Ushijima, Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Abstract
An inverter circuit for discharge lamps, in which transformers are separated into multiple small or middle-sized transformers connected to one another to provide a high-power transformer equivalent to a large transformer. The inverter circuit includes a plurality of leakage flux step-up transformers each having a magnetically continuous central core, a primary winding, and a distributed-constant secondary winding, wherein a part of a resonance circuit is formed among a leakage inductance produced on the secondary winding side, a distributed capacitance of the secondary winding and a parasitic capacitance produced around a discharge lamp close to a proximity conductor, and as the resonance circuit resonates, the secondary winding has a close coupling portion in a vicinity of the primary winding which has a magnetic phase close to that of the primary winding and magnetically close couples with the primary winding.