公开(公告)号：US10080275B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-18

申请号：US14688687

申请日：2015-04-16

申请人： IMMUNOLIGHT, LLC ,  DUKE UNIVERSITY

发明人： Frederic A. Bourke, Jr. ,  Zakaryae Fathi ,  Ian Nicholas Stanton ,  Michael J. Therien ,  Paul Rath Stauffer ,  Paolo Maccarini ,  Katherine Sarah Hansen ,  Diane Renee Fels ,  Cory Robert Wyatt

IPC分类号： H05B41/28 ,  A61L2/10 ,  A61N1/40 ,  A61N1/44 ,  C02F1/32 ,  H01J65/04 ,  A61N2/00 ,  A61N5/10

CPC分类号： H05B41/2806 ,  A61L2/10 ,  A61N1/40 ,  A61N1/44 ,  A61N2/00 ,  A61N5/10 ,  C02F1/32 ,  H01J65/042 ,  Y02B20/22 ,  Y02W10/37

摘要： Methods and systems for producing a change in a medium. A first method and system (1) place in a vicinity of the medium at least one upconverter including a gas for plasma ignition, with the upconverter being configured, upon exposure to initiation energy, to generate light for emission into the medium, and (2) apply the initiation energy from an energy source including the first wavelength λ1 to the medium, wherein the emitted light directly or indirectly produces the change in the medium. A second method and system (1) place in a vicinity of the medium an agent receptive to microwave radiation or radiofrequency radiation, and (2) apply as an initiation energy the microwave radiation or radiofrequency radiation by which the agent directly or indirectly generates emitted light in the infrared, visible, or ultraviolet range to produce at least one of physical and biological changes in the medium.

公开(公告)号：US09955561B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-24

申请号：US15284429

申请日：2016-10-03

申请人： Environmental Potentials, Inc.

发明人： Andrew C. Pickett ,  Naveen R. Tera ,  Robert V. Rawlings

IPC分类号： H05B37/00 ,  H05B39/00 ,  H05B41/14 ,  H05B41/36 ,  H05B41/28

CPC分类号： H05B41/36 ,  H01J65/048 ,  H05B41/2806 ,  H05B41/282 ,  H05B41/38 ,  Y02B20/22

摘要： A ballast circuit for a lighting system using an induction fluorescent lamp utilizes an AC-DC rectification circuit, a DC-DC boost power conversion circuit, a DC-AC half bridge inverter circuit, and a resonating circuit to ignite the lamp and maintain substantially constant power output of the lamp, while the DC-AC half bridge inverter circuit is further comprised of a gate isolation transformer connected in a half bridge inverter schematic which uses a ballast integrated circuit (IC) to drive a high side MOSFET and a low side MOSFET and the gate isolation transformer electrically isolates a gate signal to the high side MOSFET.

公开(公告)号：US09524861B2

公开(公告)日：2016-12-20

申请号：US14042580

申请日：2013-09-30

申请人： Lucidity Lights, Inc.

发明人： John R. Goscha ,  Walter Peter Lapatovich ,  David Alan Goodman ,  David Wentzel

IPC分类号： H01J65/04 ,  H01J5/54 ,  H01J61/28 ,  H01J61/56 ,  H05B41/28 ,  H05B41/392

CPC分类号： H01J65/048 ,  H01J5/54 ,  H01J61/28 ,  H01J61/56 ,  H05B41/2806 ,  H05B41/3921 ,  Y02B20/22

摘要： An induction RF fluorescent lamp, comprising a vitreous envelope filled with a working gas mixture, a power coupler comprising at least one winding of an electrical conductor for receiving an alternating voltage and current to generate an alternating magnetic field and thereby induce an alternating electric field within the lamp envelope, an electronic ballast providing appropriate voltage and current to the power coupler and a main mercury amalgam having a vapor pressure at room temperature which is higher than the vapor pressure of the mercury amalgam formed on the flag.

摘要翻译： 一种感应RF荧光灯，包括填充有工作气体混合物的玻璃体膜，功率耦合器，包括用于接收交流电压和电流的电导体的至少一个绕组，以产生交变磁场，从而在 灯壳，电子镇流器向功率耦合器提供适当的电压和电流，以及在室温下具有高于在标志上形成的汞汞齐的蒸气压的蒸汽压的主汞汞齐。

公开(公告)号：US09502149B2

公开(公告)日：2016-11-22

申请号：US14456062

申请日：2014-08-11

申请人： Nordson Corporation

发明人： James M. Borsuk ,  Gregory W. Harrell ,  James M. Khoury ,  Edward C. McGhee ,  James C. Smith ,  Hallie Smith-Petee

IPC分类号： G21K5/00 ,  G21K5/04 ,  G21K1/00 ,  H01J65/04 ,  H05B41/24

CPC分类号： G21K5/04 ,  G21K1/00 ,  H01J65/044 ,  H05B41/24 ,  H05B41/2806 ,  Y02B20/22

摘要： A UV system for irradiating a substrate includes a lamphead having an enclosure with an interior. A UV bulb is positioned in the interior and is capable of emitting UV energy when excited by RF energy. The UV system also includes a solid state RF source capable of generating the RF energy. The RF energy is transmitted to the UV bulb, which causes the UV bulb to ignite and emit the UV energy from the interior of the lamphead.

摘要翻译： 用于照射衬底的UV系统包括具有带有内部的外壳的灯头。 UV灯泡位于内部，并能够通过RF能量激发时发出紫外线能量。 UV系统还包括能够产生RF能量的固态RF源。 RF能量被传输到UV灯泡，这导致UV灯泡点燃并从灯头的内部发射UV能量。

公开(公告)号：US09460907B2

公开(公告)日：2016-10-04

申请号：US14035733

申请日：2013-09-24

申请人： Lucidity Lights, Inc.

发明人： John R. Goscha ,  Victor D. Roberts ,  Thomas Farkas

IPC分类号： H05B41/392 ,  H01J1/52 ,  H01J65/04 ,  H01J5/54 ,  H01J61/28 ,  H01J61/56 ,  H05B41/28

CPC分类号： H01J65/048 ,  H01J5/54 ,  H01J61/28 ,  H01J61/56 ,  H05B41/2806 ,  H05B41/3921 ,  Y02B20/22

摘要： An induction RF fluorescent lamp comprising a dimming device load control facility enabling the induction RF fluorescent lamp to provide for electrical loads required for the proper operation of an external control dimming device, the dimming device load control facility controlling a switched electrical load switched in and out of connectivity within the electronic ballast to provide a load for the external dimming device.

摘要翻译： 一种感应RF荧光灯，包括调光装置负载控制装置，使得感应RF荧光灯能够提供用于外部控制调光装置的正常操作所需的电负载，调光装置负载控制装置控制切换的电负载切换和断开 在电子镇流器内连接，为外部调光装置提供负载。

公开(公告)号：US09305765B2

公开(公告)日：2016-04-05

申请号：US14039066

申请日：2013-09-27

申请人： Lucidity Lights, Inc.

发明人： John R. Goscha ,  Victor D. Roberts ,  Juan Manuel Rivas-Davila ,  Luke Christopher Raymond

IPC分类号： H05B41/28 ,  H01J65/04 ,  H01J61/56 ,  H05B41/38

CPC分类号： H01J65/048 ,  H01J61/56 ,  H05B41/2806 ,  H05B41/38 ,  Y02B20/19 ,  Y02B20/22

摘要： An induction RF fluorescent lamp, comprising a bulbous vitreous portion filled with a working gas mixture, a power coupler comprising at least one winding of an electrical conductor for receiving an alternating voltage, and an electronic ballast providing appropriate voltage and current to the power coupler and operating at a frequency greater than 5 MHz wherein the electronic ballast comprises an EMI filter, an AC-to-DC converter, a DC bus, an input choke inductor and a DC-to-AC inverter.

摘要翻译： 一种感应RF荧光灯，包括填充有工作气体混合物的球状玻璃体部分，功率耦合器，包括用于接收交流电压的电导体的至少一个绕组，以及向功率耦合器提供适当电压和电流的电子镇流器，以及 以大于5MHz的频率工作，其中电子镇流器包括EMI滤波器，AC-DC转换器，DC总线，输入扼流圈电感器和DC-AC逆变器。

公开(公告)号：US09161422B2

公开(公告)日：2015-10-13

申请号：US13837034

申请日：2013-03-15

申请人： Lucidity Lights, Inc.

发明人： Felix I. Alexandrov

IPC分类号： H05B37/02 ,  H05B41/28

CPC分类号： H05B41/2806 ,  Y02B20/22

摘要： An electronic ballast for driving a gas discharge lamp includes an EMI filter, a bridge rectifier coupled to a DC bus without a conventional electrolytic capacitor, a passive valley fill circuit built as a network having 4 charge/discharge energy storage capacitors and 9 diodes (4C9C), and a resonant DC to AC high frequency inverter for powering gas discharge lamp. The 4C9D circuit divides the rectified peak voltage by four and the low output voltage of the circuit is used to provide continuous lamp operation. The result is a ballast having substantially improved power factor, total harmonic distortion, and current crest factor. The electronic ballast is provided with a dimming capability from a TRIAC based wall dimmer.

摘要翻译： 用于驱动气体放电灯的电子镇流器包括EMI滤波器，耦合到没有常规电解电容器的DC总线的桥式整流器，被构建为具有4个充电/放电储能电容器和9个二极管（4C9C）的网络的无源谷底填充电路 ）和用于为气体放电灯供电的谐振DC至AC高频逆变器。 4C9D电路将整流峰值电压除以四，电路的低输出电压用于提供连续的灯操作。 结果是具有明显改善的功率因数，总谐波失真和电流波峰因数的镇流器。 电子镇流器具有来自基于TRIAC的墙壁调光器的调光能力。

公开(公告)号：US09129792B2

公开(公告)日：2015-09-08

申请号：US14035783

申请日：2013-09-24

申请人： Lucidity Lights, Inc.

发明人： John R. Goscha ,  Walter Peter Lapatovich ,  James N. Lester ,  David Alan Goodman ,  Zeng Zhi Yu ,  David Wentzel

IPC分类号： H01J65/04

CPC分类号： H01J65/048 ,  H05B41/2806 ,  H05B41/3921 ,  Y02B20/22

摘要： A fast starting induction RF fluorescent lamp comprising a power coupler with conductive material in contact with the power coupler to reduce extraneous electromagnetic radiation emanating from the power coupler, and with structures within the bulb envelope that facilitate rapid luminous development during a turn-on phase.

摘要翻译： 一种快速起动感应RF荧光灯，包括具有与功率耦合器接触的导电材料的功率耦合器，以减少从功率耦合器发出的外来电磁辐射，以及灯泡外壳内的结构，其有助于在开启阶段期间快速发光。

公开(公告)号：US20150083940A1

公开(公告)日：2015-03-26

申请号：US14561397

申请日：2014-12-05

申请人： Nordson Corporation

发明人： James M. Borsuk ,  James M. Khoury ,  Edward C. McGhee ,  James C. Smith

IPC分类号： H05G2/00 ,  F21V23/00

CPC分类号： H05G2/00 ,  F21V23/007 ,  H01J9/42 ,  H01J9/50 ,  H01J65/044 ,  H05B41/24 ,  Y02B20/22 ,  Y02W30/828

摘要： A microwave excited ultraviolet lamp system with a data logging and retrieval circuit and method for operating the same. The data logging and retrieval circuit stores operational data in a cache memory using a FIFO data storage protocol. The contents of the cache memory are periodically copied to a larger removable memory so that the removable memory contains a relatively long historical record of the system operational parameters. The data logging and retrieval circuit includes a data port configured to load the contents of the cache memory into an external device when the device is coupled to the data port. A second data port allows the external device to supply power to the data logging and retrieval circuit so that data may be retrieved when the internal power supply is malfunctioning. Data stored in the removable memory may be protected so that it may only be accessed by authorized personnel.

摘要翻译： 一种具有数据记录和检索电路的微波激发紫外灯系统及其操作方法。 数据记录和检索电路使用FIFO数据存储协议将操作数据存储在高速缓冲存储器中。 高速缓冲存储器的内容被周期地复制到更大的可移动存储器，使得可移动存储器包含系统操作参数的相对较长的历史记录。 数据记录和检索电路包括数据端口，该数据端口被配置为当设备耦合到数据端口时将高速缓冲存储器的内容加载到外部设备中。 第二个数据端口允许外部设备向数据记录和检索电路供电，以便在内部电源出现故障时可以检索数据。 存储在可移动存储器中的数据可以被保护，使得它只能被授权的人员访问。

公开(公告)号：US20140320005A1

公开(公告)日：2014-10-30

申请号：US13898560

申请日：2013-05-21

申请人： Lucidity Lights, Inc.

发明人： Victor D. Roberts ,  John R. Gocsha

IPC分类号： H01J65/04

CPC分类号： H01J65/048 ,  H01J61/56 ,  H05B41/2806 ,  H05B41/3921 ,  Y02B20/22

摘要： An induction RF fluorescent lamp includes a lamp envelope with a re-entrant cavity both covered on a partial vacuum side with phosphor and filled with a working gas mixture; an air-core power coupler on the non-vacuum side of said re-entrant cavity comprising a coil composed of at least one turn of an electrical conductor; an electronic ballast, wherein the ballast converts mains frequency voltage and current to a power coupler frequency voltage and current, the electronic ballast providing the voltage and current to the power coupler through at least two of a plurality of electrical terminals of the electronic ballast; and a capacitor electrically connected between the air-core power coupler and at least one of the plurality of electrical terminals of the electronic ballast, wherein the magnitude of the impedance of the capacitor is high at the mains frequency and the magnitude of the impedance of that same capacitor is low at the operating frequency of the RF fluorescent lamp.

摘要翻译： 感应RF荧光灯包括具有入口腔的灯壳，两者都在部分真空侧用磷光体覆盖并填充有工作气体混合物; 在所述凹入腔的非真空侧上的空气芯功率耦合器包括由至少一匝电导体组成的线圈; 电子镇流器，其中镇流器将电源频率电压和电流转换为功率耦合器频率电压和电流，电子镇流器通过电子镇流器的多个电端子中的至少两个将功率耦合器提供电压和电流; 以及电连接在所述空芯功率耦合器与所述电子镇流器的所述多个电端子中的至少一个之间的电容器，其中所述电容器的阻抗的大小在所述电源频率处高，并且所述阻抗的大小 在荧光灯的工作频率下，相同的电容器是低的。