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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
May. 20, 2010
Yen-ping Wang, Taipei, TW;
Pei-yuan Chen, Taipei County, TW;
Ko-ming Lin, Tainan, TW;
Grenergy Opto Inc., Hsin-chu, TW;
Abstract
A gas-discharge lamp controller utilizing a novel preheating phase control mechanism, having: a supply voltage tracking reference voltages generator, biased between a supply voltage and a reference ground, for generating a first reference voltage which is proportional to the supply voltage; and a control unit, for generating a high threshold signal according to the first reference voltage and a saw-tooth signal, the peak value of the saw-tooth signal being proportional to the supply voltage, wherein the control unit has a preheating phase, the high threshold signal is coupled with the first reference voltage during the preheating phase, and the time duration of the preheating phase is set by a predetermined number of periods of the saw-tooth signal.