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Gas discharge flash lamp with piezoelectric trigger generator

  • US 4,082,985 A
  • Filed: 02/04/1977
  • Issued: 04/04/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1976
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A device provided with a gas discharge flash lamp having a discharge tube provided with two internal main electrodes and an external starting electrode, the device comprising two input terminals intended for connection to a mechanically operable piezo-electric element which, when operated mechanically supplies in its electrically unloaded state mainly one starting pulse of a non-changing polarity for igniting the lamp, a voltage produced by means of the piezo-electric element being applied -- via the input terminals -- between the starting electrode and a first main electrode of the lamp, means connecting the main electrodes to an electric supply source, characterized in that the input terminals are interconnected by a series circuit of a rectifier and a parallel arrangement of an inductive and a capacitive impedance, wherein said parallel arrangement constitutes an undercritically damped circuit, and wherein a connection from the starting electrode to the first main electrode of the lamp comprises the inductive impedance but is free from the rectifier, the pass direction of the rectifier being chosen such that it passes a pulse produced at the input terminals with the same polarity as the starting pulse of the piezo-electric element.

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