Compact discharge lamp having improved thermal management characteristics
CA 2076126 A1 · Owner: Minarczyk, Michael M. · Inventors: Nerone, Louis R.; Minarczyk, Michael M.; Vamvakas, Spiro
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
LD 10,371, COMPACT DISCHARGE LAMP HAVING IMPROVED THERMAL MANAGEMENT CHARACTERISTICS ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION, A discharge lamp having improved thermal management properties includes a housing base in which the ballast circuit utilized for driving the discharge lamp at an appropriate operating frequency is located. The ballast circuit is disposed on a circuit board which is mounted in a vertical orientation within the housing base relative to the discharge lamp being mounted in an upright position. The space along either side of the circuit board on which the components of the ballast circuit are mounted allows for the flow of thermal convection currents thereover. Additionally the, …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed August 13, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 13, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 13, 2014.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.