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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2005
Seymour Perkins, Iii, Hinsdale, IL (US);
Jeffrey Lord, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Subramanian Muthu, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Bernd Clauberg, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Seymour Perkins, III, Hinsdale, IL (US);
Jeffrey Lord, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Subramanian Muthu, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Bernd Clauberg, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An electronic ballast with remote capacitor placement includes a first housing (); a second housing (); an AC/DC converter (); a DC bus () operably connected to the AC/DC converter (); a lamp driver () operably connected to the DC bus (); and a storage capacitor () connected to the DC bus () with capacitor wires (). The AC/DC converter (), the DC bus (), and the lamp driver () are disposed in the first housing (); the storage capacitor () is disposed in the second housing (); and the first housing () is thermally isolated and physically separated from the second housing ().