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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2007
Applicants:
Martin Feldtkeller, Munich, DE;
Antoine Fery, Munich, DE;
Michael Herfurth, Gilching, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing electrical current to a lamp, detecting a power supply voltage outage, detecting a return of the power supply voltage, determining how long the power supply voltage outage lasted, and preheating the lamp responsive to determining that the power supply voltage outage lasted greater than a threshold amount of time.