EP1978789B1 - Dispositif d'alimentation pour lampe, en particulier pour une tour d'éclairage - Google Patents
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- H05B41/16—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by dc or by low-frequency ac, e.g. by 50 cycles/sec ac, or with network frequencies
- H05B41/18—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by dc or by low-frequency ac, e.g. by 50 cycles/sec ac, or with network frequencies having a starting switch
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- the present invention relates to a lamps supplying device.
- the invention relates to a supplying device for a plurality of lamps, of the type comprising at least one generator for supplying a powering current and a spike current to said lamps.
- the invention is particularly, but not exclusively, directed to a lamps supplying device for lamps comprised in a light tower, and the following description refers to this application field, but only in order to simplify its understanding.
- light towers are illumination devices comprising a base on which a pole-like support is mounted, for holding lamps used for illuminating a specific area, such as for example a terrain portion in a construction site.
- a light tower of the known type is schematically shown in Figure 1 and indicated with the reference number 1.
- the light tower 1 comprises a base 2 formed by a supplying device 3 mounted on support and transport means 4, with rollover preventing means 5.
- lamps 8 of the gas-discharge type employing metal halogenide, sodium and other materials having similar illumination properties.
- illumination devices like light towers therefore comprise a supplying device equipped with a generator, adequately sized in order to ensure a sufficient start-up current for the lamps 8, i.e. the so called spike current.
- Such a generator has various disadvantages primarily due to its bulk and consumption in its stand-by condition, i.e. not in the start-up phase of the lamps 8.
- the sizing of the generator represents a critical factor in particular in mobile light towers 1, as the one shown as an example in Figure 1 , since it requires a suitable sizing of the support and transport means 4, with the requirement of adequate rollover preventing means 5, rendering the light tower 1 difficult to move, position and to use in general.
- the design of the generator and generally of the most suitable supplying device is therefore of fundamental importance in order to provide light towers that are easy to use and operate reliably.
- FIG. 2 The electric diagram of a first known technical solution for realising a supplying device for a plurality of lamps in a light tower 1 is schematically shown in Figure 2 , and is generally indicated by the reference number 23.
- the supplying device 23 comprises a source 21 supplying a standard main voltage of 230 V, at a frequency of 50 Hz, as well as a plurality of ballasts 22, each with a first terminal connected to said source 21 and a second terminal connected to a respective igniter 24, in particular, a well known superimposed igniter, in turn connected to a respective lamp 8.
- each ballast 22 functions as a reactor in order to limit the high spike current of the respective lamp 8 and to stabilize the current in this lamp 8, after the transient has ended.
- the ballasts 22 however require a non negligible reactive power absorption, that imposes a re-phasing by suitable condensers, referred to as C, which are inserted between the source 21 and one common terminal T of the igniters 24 and the lamps 8.
- the "hot" switch off and on of a lamp 8 entails a transient state (several minutes long), during which, the lamp 8, although powered, does not light on because of the excessive inner gas pressure, which is due to the high temperature of the same gas.
- the progressive cooling of the lamp 8 and the following reduction of the inner gas pressure allows, at a certain time, the ignition of the electric arc and therefore the ignition of the lamp 8 itself.
- the technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to envisage a supplying device for lamps in light towers, having structural and functional features which ensure a spike current value which is high enough to ignite the lamps, at the same time reducing the size with regard to surface and weight, overcoming the limitations which still affect the devices of the known art.
- the solution idea at the basis of the present invention is that of using a suitably partitioned generator, such as to ensure a separate power supply for each lamp of the light tower, during normal operation and during ignition.
- a supplying device for a plurality of lamps of the type comprising at least one generator, such as to provide a powering current and a spike current to said lamps, characterized in that said generator comprises a plurality of local generators, each local generator being connected, through a respective igniter, to one of said lamps, in order to supply said lamp with said powering current, as well as an auxiliary generator, connected to said igniters and such as to supply them with an auxiliary power supply, so that said igniters provide said spike current to said lamps.
- a light tower comprising a supplying device according to the invention.
- a supplying device according to the invention is schematically indicated by the reference number 30.
- the supplying device 30 is connected to a plurality of lamps, in particular four discharge lamps for a light tower, indicated as L1-L4.
- the supplying device 30 comprises a generator 31, which is started up by an internal combustion engine, not shown.
- the generator 31 comprises a plurality of generators, in particular windings 32, which are associated, through a respective igniter 33, to one of said lamps L1-L4, which may be called local generators 32.
- the generator 31 comprises a first local generator W1, which is inserted between an input terminal IN1 of a first igniter A1 and a first internal circuit node X1, the first igniter A1 having an output terminal OUT 1 connected to a first lamp L1, which is in turn connected to the first internal circuit node X1.
- the generator 31 comprises:
- the generator 31 comprises an auxiliary generator or winding 34 or Waux, inserted between the first internal circuit node X1 and a second internal circuit node X2, which is in turn connected to respective auxiliary supply terminals T1-T4 of igniters A1-A4 of lamps L1-L4.
- each local generator for instance W1
- the other local generators W2-W4 not even in critical conditions, as during the start-up phase.
- the auxiliary generator 34 supplies the igniters 33 with an auxiliary power supply during the start-up phase of the lamps L1-L4, the igniters being therefore independent from the local generators 32, which supply the lamps L1-L4, even in normal working conditions.
- the working of the igniters 33 is advantageously timed in order to reduce the thermal load on the same igniters, which takes place when the igniters have to dissipate more energy, i.e. when they are powered at a higher frequency. Therefore the supplying device 30 comprises a timer connected to the igniters 33.
- the permanent magnet generator comprises a stator 40, as shown in Figure 4A .
- the stator 40 has a plurality of windings 41.
- the windings 41 are adequately divided into sectors, in order to form a plurality of generators, in particular local generators 32 and the auxiliary generator 34.
- the stator 40 comprises a first sector Set 1, with six windings forming the first local generator W1 of the first lamp L1.
- stator 40 comprises:
- the three phase permanent magnet generator further comprises a bell-shaped iron rotor 42, with a plurality of poles 43 N and S of permanent magnets, which are evenly distributed on its internal circular perimeter, as schematically shown in Figure 4B .
- the windings 41 of the stator 40 are coupled, three by three to a pair of poles 43 N and S and affect the magnetic flux F of said three windings 41 (indicated as A, B, C), so as to form the three phase system of the generator 31, as schematically shown in Figure 4C .
- a permanent magnet multi-generator is therefore obtained, which is particularly compact and operates at frequencies in the range of 400-600 Hz.
- the generator 31, in its entirety, may be considered as divided in a plurality of generators, in particular, in the illustrative and non limitative example of Figures 4A-4C , five independent (or at least partially independent) generators, i.e. five local generators 32.
- the generator 31 is free of ballasts (differently from the described generators of the known art).
- ballasts are possible due to the particular output characteristic of the permanent magnet generator.
- the generator since the generator has a constant excitation, it has an output characteristic with a non negligible slope, so that the open voltage is higher than the load voltage (typically twice as much).
- ballast generator with an "intrinsic" ballast is that it lacks any reactive element (unlike a traditional ballast), which would have to be compensated by another additional reactive element (such as the condenser C of the ballast generator realised according to the prior art).
- the supplying device 30 comprises universal igniters for powering lamps of various types, for instance metallic iodide and sodium vapor lamps.
- the main advantage of the supplying device according to the invention is its unusual compact size: in the same conditions, i.e. with the same lamp set to be switched on and powered, it provides a generator with a diameter and length reduced by 50% with respect to generators used in known devices. The weight is also greatly reduced.
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- Dispositif d'alimentation (30) pour une pluralité de lampes (L1-L4) du type comprenant au moins un générateur (31) pour fournir un courant d'allumage et un courant de pointe aux dites lampes (L1-L4), caractérisé en ce que le dit générateur (31) comprend une pluralité de générateurs locaux (32), chaque générateur local (32) étant connecté, par un allumeur respectif (33), à une des dites lampes (L1-L4) afin d'alimenter la dite lampe (L1-L4) avec le dit courant d'allumage, ainsi qu'un générateur auxiliaire (34) connecté aux dits allumeurs (33) pour les alimenter avec une alimentation auxiliaire en courant, de façon à ce que les dits allumeurs (33) fournissent le dit courant de pointe aux dites lampes (L1-L4).
- Dispositif d'alimentation (30) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les dits générateurs locaux (32) sont insérés entre les bornes respectives d'entrée (IN1-IN4) des dits allumeurs (33) et un premier noeud interne de circuit (X1), les dits allumeurs (33) ayant des bornes respectives de sortie (OUT1-OUT4) connectées aux dites lampes (L1-L4) afin de les alimenter avec le dit courant d'allumage.
- Dispositif d'alimentation (30) selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que le dit générateur auxiliaire (34) est inséré entre le dit premier noeud interne de circuit (X1) et un deuxième noeud interne de circuit (X2), qui est à son tour connecté à la borne respective d'alimentation en courant auxiliaire (T1-T4) des dits allumeurs (33), afin de les alimenter avec la dite alimentation auxiliaire en courant.
- Dispositif d'alimentation (30) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend un minuteur connecté aux dits allumeurs (33).
- Dispositif d'alimentation (30) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le dit générateur (31) comprend une génératrice de courant triphasé à aimants permanents ayant un stator (40) avec une pluralité de bobinages (41) et un rotor (42) avec une pluralité de pôles (43), les dits bobinages (41) du dit stator (40) étant divisés en secteurs (Set1-Set5), qui forment les dits générateurs locaux (32) et le dit générateur auxiliaire (34).
- Dispositif d'alimentation (30) selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un des dits secteurs (Set1-Set5) comprend trois bobinages formant le dit générateur auxiliaire (34).
- Dispositif d'alimentation (30) selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le restant des dits secteurs (Set1-Set4) comprend chacun six bobinages (41) formant les dits générateurs locaux (32).
- Dispositif d'alimentation (30) selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que les dits allumeurs (33) sont de type universel et peuvent alimenter des lampes de types différents, parmi lesquels les lampes à iodure métallique et à vapeur de sodium.
- Tour lumineuse (1) du type comprenant au moins une base (2), qui est connectée, par un support de type pôle (6) à un arrangement d'illumination (7) comprenant une pluralité de lampes (8), alimenté par un dispositif d'alimentation, caractérisé en ce que le dit dispositif d'alimentation est prévu selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
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DE200760007048 DE602007007048D1 (de) | 2007-04-06 | 2007-04-06 | Versorgungseinrichtung für lampen, besonders für eines mobiles Beleuchtungssystem |
EP20070425204 EP1978789B1 (fr) | 2007-04-06 | 2007-04-06 | Dispositif d'alimentation pour lampe, en particulier pour une tour d'éclairage |
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