EP2090142B1 - Schaltungsanordnung und verfahren zum betreiben einer hochdruckentladungslampe - Google Patents

Schaltungsanordnung und verfahren zum betreiben einer hochdruckentladungslampe Download PDF

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EP2090142B1
EP2090142B1 EP06829961A EP06829961A EP2090142B1 EP 2090142 B1 EP2090142 B1 EP 2090142B1 EP 06829961 A EP06829961 A EP 06829961A EP 06829961 A EP06829961 A EP 06829961A EP 2090142 B1 EP2090142 B1 EP 2090142B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B41/00—Circuit arrangements or apparatus for igniting or operating discharge lamps
    • H05B41/14—Circuit arrangements
    • H05B41/26—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by power derived from dc by means of a converter, e.g. by high-voltage dc
    • H05B41/28—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by power derived from dc by means of a converter, e.g. by high-voltage dc using static converters
    • H05B41/288—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by power derived from dc by means of a converter, e.g. by high-voltage dc using static converters with semiconductor devices and specially adapted for lamps without preheating electrodes, e.g. for high-intensity discharge lamps, high-pressure mercury or sodium lamps or low-pressure sodium lamps
    • H05B41/292—Arrangements for protecting lamps or circuits against abnormal operating conditions
    • H05B41/2928—Arrangements for protecting lamps or circuits against abnormal operating conditions for protecting the lamp against abnormal operating conditions
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B41/00—Circuit arrangements or apparatus for igniting or operating discharge lamps
    • H05B41/14—Circuit arrangements
    • H05B41/26—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by power derived from dc by means of a converter, e.g. by high-voltage dc
    • H05B41/28—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by power derived from dc by means of a converter, e.g. by high-voltage dc using static converters
    • H05B41/288—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by power derived from dc by means of a converter, e.g. by high-voltage dc using static converters with semiconductor devices and specially adapted for lamps without preheating electrodes, e.g. for high-intensity discharge lamps, high-pressure mercury or sodium lamps or low-pressure sodium lamps

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  • the present invention relates to a circuit arrangement for operating a high-pressure discharge lamp with an electronic ballast, which is designed to provide an AC supply signal for the high-pressure discharge lamp, wherein the frequency of the AC supply signal is at least 1 MHz. It also relates to a method for operating a high-pressure discharge lamp with an AC supply signal, wherein the frequency of the AC supply signal is at least 1 MHz.
  • High-pressure discharge lamps as used for example as video projection lamps, usually have two similar electrodes, which are usually formed rod-shaped.
  • Such a jump in the arc approach particularly affects the use of high pressure discharge lamps in optical devices, such as projection equipment, beamers, Microscope illuminations, and may lead to uselessness in the application.
  • a material annealing ie the electrode metal tungsten from the gas circulation process is deposited with the tungsten halides on the electrodes, and a peaking on the electrodes, which stabilizes the discharge and the approach of the arc very effectively.
  • WO 03/098979 A1 From the WO 03/098979 A1 is the operation of a high-pressure discharge lamp with an unmodulated RF signal of more than 3 MHz known.
  • high-pressure discharge lamps permit successful HF operation only at frequencies which are above the acoustic resonances in the combustion chamber. These acoustic resonances lead to strong currents in the combustion chamber, which generally disturb the discharge arc in general.
  • a gas discharge lamp in which a combustion chamber has only one electrode.
  • a counter electrode is formed by a reflector outside the combustion chamber.
  • the lamp is powered by a high frequency alternating current.
  • an amplitude of the high-frequency alternating current is modulated.
  • a repetition frequency of the amplitude modulation is selected such that acoustic oscillations are excited in the lamp.
  • the present invention is therefore the object of the above-mentioned circuit arrangement or the aforementioned method in such a way that in the specified frequency range, d. H.
  • d. H the specified frequency range
  • the present invention is based on the finding that a very effective stabilization of the arc in high-frequency operation can be achieved when the AC feed signal is modulated in amplitude.
  • the causes of this are currently not fully understood, since in addition amplitude amplitudes and amplitude reductions bring about the success of the invention and to avoid flicker phenomena of discharge arcs in general, especially plasma bows in high pressure discharge lamps lead.
  • An indication of this is that a stabilizing peaking similar to that in operation with that in the mentioned US 5,608,294 presented circuit arrangement, only after a few hours adjusts. In other words, this means that the actual explanation for the solution according to the invention is not to be found in the peak formation.
  • the time constancy and spatial constancy of the discharge arc stabilization is achieved, the self meets the high optical requirements of projection lamps.
  • HF operation In contrast to LF operation, HF operation enables simple, even single-stage ballasts. This allows over the current state of the art (low-frequency operation) greatly reduced and thus significantly cheaper ballasts.
  • the amplitude modulation represents a pulse modulation.
  • a stabilization of the arc is achieved by a pulse-shaped, periodically repeated amplitude modulation of the AC feed signal outside the range of stronger acoustic resonances.
  • the pulse modulation has a repetition frequency of 100 Hz to 100 kHz, preferably from 100 Hz to 2 kHz.
  • the duty cycle of the pulse modulation is preferably between 1% and 50%, preferably between 3% and 20%. From the point of view of video projection applications, duty cycles have proved to be very advantageous in which the modulation pulses only take very short periods of time, in particular periods of time which are shorter than the image dark gap.
  • the amplitude modulation of the AC feed signal may be at a constant frequency, but may also be accompanied by a frequency change.
  • the changed frequency is in a range of - 50% to + 100%, preferably in a range of - 10% to + 10%, the frequency of the AC feed signal.
  • the pulse modulation can be characterized by an amplitude increase compared to the unmodulated AC feed signal.
  • Particularly good results with regard to the stabilization of the arc have at amplitude peaks between 20% and 1000%, preferably between 20% and 200%, of the amplitude of the unmodulated AC feed signal.
  • the pulse modulation can also be characterized by an amplitude reduction compared to the unmodulated AC feed signal.
  • the amplitude reduction is between - 5% and - 90% of the unmodulated AC supply signal.
  • the pulse modulation may be characterized by a sequence of amplitude peaks, a sequence of amplitude decreases, and a sequence of amplitude peaks and reductions in amplitude that alternate.
  • the amplitude peaks and / or the amplitude reductions can always take place to positive amplitudes or always to negative amplitudes or alternately to positive and negative amplitudes or simultaneously to positive or negative amplitudes of the unmodulated AC feed signal.
  • the sequence of an amplitude increase with an immediately following amplitude reduction or the reverse order has proved to be particularly advantageous.
  • the success of the invention has been achieved in a wide variety of pulse shapes, in particular in rectangular, triangular, semi-sinusoidal, rectangular with exponential rise or sawtooth-shaped pulse shape.
  • the electronic ballast preferably has an input connection for connecting an input voltage, an output connection for providing an AC supply signal to the high-pressure discharge lamp and a series connection comprising an inverter and a load network arranged between the input connection and the output connection.
  • the inverter is an inverter output voltage having a predetermined frequency, a predetermined Amplitude and a predetermined duty cycle to the load network provides.
  • the predefinable frequency and / or the predeterminable amplitude of the inverter output voltage is changed for amplitude modulation of the AC supply signal.
  • the load network has at least one transformer which is arranged at the input and / or the output and / or between the input and the output of the load network. This proves to be particularly useful in the case of very low or high operating voltages or in the demand for a safe electrical isolation, which is here, for example, the railway standard of 2 kV to think.
  • the load network is preferably designed so that it can be brought into resonance by changing the predeterminable frequency of the inverter output voltage, thereby generating the ignition voltage for ignition of the high-pressure discharge lamp. This eliminates the provision of a separate ignition device.
  • the high-pressure discharge lamp preferably has an operating pressure of 100 to 500 bar.
  • the Fig. 1 shows a schematic representation of the structure of a circuit arrangement according to the invention.
  • the input voltage Ue which in particular can represent the so-called intermediate circuit voltage, is supplied to a high-frequency inverter 10. Its output signal is characterized by a predeterminable amplitude, a predefinable frequency and a specifiable duty cycle. These predefinable variables can be set via an interface (not shown) on the inverter 10.
  • the output signal Ua of the inverter 10 is supplied to a load network 12. At the output of a lamp current I L is provided to the high-pressure discharge lamp 14.
  • the load network 12 forms the approximately sinusoidal lamp current I L from the output voltage Ua of the inverter 10 and simultaneously serves to limit the current.
  • the lamp current can be dependent on both the frequency and the amplitude of the output voltage of the inverter.
  • the load network 12 is also designed so that it can be brought into resonance by changing the predeterminable frequency of the output voltage Ua of the inverter, so as to generate the ignition voltage for the high-pressure discharge lamp.
  • Fig. 2 shows various embodiments of a suitable load network. It should be noted that in the embodiments according to Fig. 2a and 2d the capacitor C 2 can be designed differently: Once to contribute to the resonant network, on the other hand, only for DC separation. If at least one transformer is inserted at the input or at the output or between the input and the output of the load network 12, it is possible in particular to ensure galvanic isolation. In addition to the illustrated load networks in T-arrangement, pure series circuits of LC elements as well as circuits in ⁇ -arrangement can be used for the purposes of the present invention. As will be apparent to those skilled in the art, the objects of the present invention can also be achieved with higher order load networks.
  • Fig. 3 shows the transfer function of the lamp current I L as a function of the frequency f of the input voltage Ue for the in Fig. 2a shown load network.
  • Two operating points AP1 and AP2 are shown, with reference to FIG Fig. 8 is returned.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 show examples of inverters 10 that are suitable for the circuit arrangement of Fig. 1 are suitable.
  • Fig. 4 shows a switch-relieved class E-converter
  • Fig. 5 a zero-voltage ZVS (Zero Voltage Switching) half-bridge. Since the inverters according to the FIGS. 4 and 5 the person skilled in the art are known, will not be discussed in detail.
  • ZVS Zero Voltage Switching
  • the driving frequency of the switching transistors, S1 in Fig. 4 or S1 and S2 in Fig. 5 frequency modulated.
  • a voltage-controlled, variable-frequency oscillator can be shared, which is usually present anyway for power or power control.
  • Fig. 6 shows the generation of the drive signals for the inverter according to Fig. 5 ,
  • a pulse signal P is added to the already existing control signal Q for operation in the adder 16.
  • This control signal is supplied to a VCO 18, which supplies it to a pulse shaper 20.
  • the pulse shaper 20 also driver circuits are usually provided.
  • the drive signals for the switches S1, S2 of the inverter 10 are provided.
  • the time profile of the lamp current I L in this variant of the control of the switch of the inverter is in Fig. 8 shown.
  • the shift of the operating point from AP1 to AP2 is associated with a change in frequency.
  • the frequency at the operating point AP2 is lower than the frequency at the operating point AP1, but the lamp current I L has a higher amplitude at the operating point AP2 than at the operating point AP1.
  • the modulation can be made by changing the amplitude of the input voltage of the inverter 10.
  • an increased lamp current I L can also be achieved, for this see the time profile of the lamp current I L of Fig. 7 in which, although the amplitude at the operating point AP1 is greater than the amplitude at the operating point AP2, the frequency remains unchanged.
  • this is particularly preferably an upstream, quickly controllable DC / DC converter.

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