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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7449843 | Transformer for driving multi-lamp and backlight module thereof A transformer for driving multi-lamps and a backlight module thereof are provided. The transformer comprises a primary winding, a secondary winding, a core, a first bobbin and a second bobbin. The primary winding comprises a primary coil. The secondary winding compr... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7439684 | Inductive lamp assembly An inductive power supply system for providing power to one or more inductively powered devices. The system includes a mechanism for varying the physical distance or the respective orientation between the primary coil and secondary coil to control the amount of powe... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7312567 | Image display apparatus provided with a potential supplying member shaped to be in contact with first and second substrates There are disclosed methods for manufacturing an airtight container and an image display apparatus. Especially, as a constitution of supplying a potential to an electrode in the airtight container, the container is constituted which includes a structure having a con... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7126450 | Inductively powered apparatus An inductive power supply system for providing power to one or more inductively powered devices. The system includes a mechanism for varying the physical distance or the respective orientation between the primary coil and secondary coil to control the amount of powe... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6741156 | Rod-core transformer and a lamp cap having a rod-core transformer A rod-core transformer for use as a starting transformer in the cap of a high-pressure discharge lamp for a motor vehicle headlight. The rod-core transformer has at least two cores (2, 3) which are in the form of rods and are arranged alongside one another, a... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6404142 | Starting device for discharge lamp One of the objectives of the present invention are to provide smaller, lighter and less expensive structure in a starting device for discharge lamp for car use so as to prevent breakage due to vibrations etc . . . And another objective is to attain simult... | 06/11/2002 |
| 4862042 | Apparatus and method for forming segmented luminosity in gas discharge tubes A device for producing and controlling the flow rate of bubble-like ionization discontinuities (30) in a gas discharge tube (10) which includes means to produce an alternating current at a frequency between 1500 and 8000 Hz and a voltage between 2000 and ... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4745342 | Method and apparatus for driving neon tube to form luminous bubbles and controlling the movement thereof According to the present invention, a portion of an applied commercial AC supply (60 Hz) is rectified, filtered and a controllable oscillator in a pulse width modulator chip serves as a signal generator which has both duty cycle and frequency control adju... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4745340 | Electric generator system for portable floodlighting equipment A power supply system for portable floodlighting equipment employing high-intensity electric discharge lamps comprises an alternating current generator having three or more independent armature windings, one for producing independently current at a voltag... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4293799 | Power supply systems A power supply system for operating fluorescent lamps in a hazardous atmosphere comprises a 1 kHz to 500 kHz constant current power supply which feeds primary windings of transformers which are connected together in series. Fluorescent lamps are connected... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4160193 | Metal vapor electric discharge lamp system A lamp system is provided wherein a high radiation intensity metal vapor electric discharge lamp is matched with a controllable regulating transformer which is characterized by having a sufficiently high open circuit voltage for striking an arc across the... | 07/03/1979 |
