Light source device

• US 6,894,437 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2002
• Issued: 05/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Yokota, Toshio, Okamoto, Masashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Wilson
• Application Number:
  US10/303,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20030098659A1
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• Field of Search: 315/219, 315/224, 315/291, 315/247, 315/307, 315/308, 315/289, 315/209.R, 315/290, 315/158, 315/205
• US Class Current: 315/209.00R
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 41/2928 for protecting the lamp against abnormal operating conditions
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/00 Energy efficient lighting technologies, e.g. halogen lamps or gas discharge lamps

Abstract

A HID lamp light source device in which the disadvantage of acoustic resonance is avoided is achieved in a light source device in which a discharge lamp has a pair of opposed electrodes connected to a feed device which is used for starting the discharge lamp and for supplying a discharge current to the electrodes by the feed device using a switching device for controlling the amount of feed for the discharge lamp and in which phase modulation is added to the essentially periodic switching operation of the switching device.

Claims

1. Light source device, comprising:

a discharge lamp (Ld) having a pair of opposed electrodes (E1,E2); and

a feed device (Ex) connected to the electrodes for starting said discharge lamp and for supplying a discharge current to said electrodes, and including a ballast circuit (Bx),

wherein the ballast circuit (Bx) comprises,

at a feed control circuit (Fx) detecting a lamp current (IL) and/or a lamp

voltage (VL).

a switching device (Qx),

a gate driver signal generation circuit (Upm), and

a gate drive circuit (Gx)

wherein an output (St) of said feed control circuit (Fx) being provided such that that the switching device (Qx) is controlled through the gate driver signal generation circuit (Upm) and the gate driver circuit (Gx), and

wherein the output (St) of said feed control circuit (Fx) undergoes a PWM-modulation via a gate modulation circuit (Uw) of the gate driver signal generation circuit (Upm), and produces a gate driver signal (Sg) at the same time by receiving a phase modulation signal (Sm) of a phase modulation control circuit (Ut).

2. Feed device (Ex) for starting a discharge lump (Ld) and for supplying a discharge current comprising:

a ballast circuit (Bx),

wherein the ballast circuit (Bx) comprises,

at a feed control circuit (Fx) detecting a lamp current (IL) and/or a lamp

voltage (VL),

a switching device (Qx),

a gate driver signal generation circuit (Upm), and

a gate drive circuit (Gx)

wherein an output (Sf) of said feed control circuit (Fx) being provided such that that the switching device (Qx) is controlled through the gate driver signal generation circuit (Upm) and the gate driver circuit (Gx), and

wherein the output (Sf) of said feed control circuit (Fx) undergoes a PWM-modulation via a gate modulation circuit (Uw) of the gate driver signal generation circuit (Upm), and produces a gate driver signal (Sg) at the same time by receiving a phase modulation signal (Sm) of a phase modulation control circuit (Ut).