Inverter circuit, fluorescent tube lighting apparatus, backlight apparatus, and liquid crystal display
First Claim
1. A driving apparatus for driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes, comprising:
- pairs of inverter circuits, each pair of inverter circuits supplying voltages to ends of a respective one of the fluorescent tubes, each inverter circuit comprising a plurality of transformers that step up an input voltage, wherein the pair of inverter circuits are synchronized via passive connection between one of the transformers of one inverter circuit of the pair of inverter circuits and one of the transformers of the other inverter circuit of the pair of inverter circuits.
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Abstract
A driving apparatus and a driving method are disclosed that are capable of uniformly lighting each entire fluorescent tube irrespective of the length or number of fluorescent tubes when simultaneously driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes in a fluorescent tube lighting apparatus. When two inverter circuits having respective transformers are provided at both ends of a fluorescent tube to light the fluorescent tube by push-pull driving, feedback windings of transformers not used in self-excited oscillation of each inverter circuit are connected together, with the transformer connection that connects together the feedback windings being either in-phase or in opposite phase, and the method of connection for fluorescent tubes connecting to secondary windings of each transformer can be changed in accordance with that connection method.
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1. A driving apparatus for driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes, comprising:
pairs of inverter circuits, each pair of inverter circuits supplying voltages to ends of a respective one of the fluorescent tubes, each inverter circuit comprising a plurality of transformers that step up an input voltage, wherein the pair of inverter circuits are synchronized via passive connection between one of the transformers of one inverter circuit of the pair of inverter circuits and one of the transformers of the other inverter circuit of the pair of inverter circuits. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A driving apparatus for driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes arranged in parallel in a substantially identical longitudinal direction, comprising:
circuitry that applies voltages of opposite phases to the respective ends of each fluorescent tube, wherein voltages supplied to adjacent ends of at least a pair of adjacent fluorescent tubes are also opposite in phase. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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