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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2007
Masakazu Ushijima, Nakano 165-0027, JP;
Koji Kawamoto, Tajimi, JP;
Youichi Yamamoto, Tottori, JP;
Kijima Minoru, Ota, JP;
Masakazu Ushijima, Nakano 165-0027, JP;
Koji Kawamoto, Tajimi, JP;
Youichi Yamamoto, Tottori, JP;
Kijima Minoru, Ota, JP;
Other;
Abstract
An inverter circuit for discharge lamps for multi-lamp lighting in which the value of a negative resistance characteristic of a fluorescent lamp is controlled, and an excessively set reactance is eliminated by causing a shunt transformer to have a reactance exceeding the negative resistance characteristic. Two coils connected to a secondary winding of a step-up transformer of the inverter circuit are arranged and magnetically coupled to each other to form a shunt transformer for shunting current such that magnetic fluxes generated thereby cancel each other out. Discharge lamps are connected to the coils, respectively, with currents flowing therethrough being balanced. Each discharge lamp is lighted because a reactance of an inductance related to the balancing operation which is in an operating frequency of the inverter circuit, exceeds a negative resistance of the discharge lamps.