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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2013
Applicant:

Sansha Electric Manufacturing Company, Limited, Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu, JP;

Inventors:

Tatsuya Kawabata, Osaka, JP;

Hiroki Morimoto, Osaka, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 41/36 (2006.01); H05B 37/02 (2006.01); H05B 41/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 41/042 (2013.01); Y10S 315/07 (2013.01);
Abstract

A power supply circuit () is responsive to an activating signal by supplying a discharge lamp () with an operating voltage on which a high voltage is temporality superposed. An insufficient current detecting circuit () detects abnormality of an output current supplied to the discharge lamp () from the power supply circuit (). A CPU () stops the operation of the power supply circuit () in response to detection of abnormality by the insufficient current detecting circuit (). An output nullification time period timer () nullifies the output of the insufficient current detecting circuit () for a predetermined time period measured from the supplying of the activating signal.


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