Auto-starting system for an electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp
CA 2110004 A1 · Owner: General Electric Company · Inventors: Thomas, Edward J.; El-Hamamsy, Sayed-Amr A.; Secen, Michael M.
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An auto-starting lamp system comprises an electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp of the type including an arc tube that contains an ionizable fill, an excitation coil surrounding the arc tube for exciting an arc discharge in the ionizable fill at least during steady state lamp operation and a starter circuit for facilitating arc discharge of the ionizable fill. The system further comprises a controllable r.f. power source for powering the lamp excitation coil, and an electrical network for matching the impedance of the excitation coil to the impedance of the r.f. power source. The impedance-matching network has the same impedance-matching relation during both lamp start-up and steady …
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- Filed November 25, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 25, 2013.
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