JP2006202775A - Lighting device for high-pressure discharge lamp - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting device for a high-pressure discharge lamp which controls arc spot movement in a high-pressure discharge light such as an ultrahigh-pressure mercury lamp, suppresses a large change in the light intensity of a light amount entering a light-receiving part due to arc spot movement, keeps screen illumination intensity constant and does not generate flickering on a screen. <P>SOLUTION: In the lighting device lighting the high-pressure discharge lamp by using a low-frequency current and a high-frequency rectangular current as lamp currents of the high-pressure discharge lamp, the high-frequency rectangular current of one cycle is applied immediately after a half-cycle of the low-frequency rectangular current. The high-frequency rectangular current is larger than lamp currents of the high-pressure discharge lamp. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an improvement of a high pressure discharge lamp lighting device by rectangular wave lighting.

  In recent years, a high-pressure discharge lamp lighting device that combines a step-down chopper circuit and a full-bridge circuit that switches the lighting polarity of a high-pressure discharge lamp at a low frequency is used in a light source device for a backlight such as a liquid crystal projector.

As such a high pressure discharge lamp lighting device, one having a circuit shown in FIG. 10 is known. The high pressure discharge lamp lighting device shown in FIG. 10 applies a power source 101 (DC or AC rectified and smoothed) to a chopper circuit 106 including a diode 102, a choke coil 103, a capacitor 104, and a switching element 105. By controlling the duty ratio of the switching element 105 by the PWM control circuit 107, the full bridge circuit 108 is converted to an appropriate DC voltage and supplied with electric power.

  The full bridge circuit 108 keeps the transistors 1011 and 1012 conductive for a certain period of time after starting the lighting of the high-pressure discharge lamp 1010 started by the igniter circuit 109, and when the high-pressure discharge lamp 1010 is in the lighting stable state, Control is performed so that the transistors 1013 and 1014 are alternately turned on. And it controls by the full bridge control circuit 1015 so that it may operate | move at a low frequency, and the high pressure discharge lamp 1010 lights with a low frequency rectangular wave.

  In recent years, ultra-high pressure mercury lamps have begun to be used as backlight sources for liquid crystal projectors and the like. In addition, with the miniaturization and weight reduction of liquid crystal projectors, the miniaturization and high illuminance of light source reflectors are further advanced. As a result, the miniaturization of the liquid crystal element which is the light receiving portion has been further promoted.

  In conventional high-pressure discharge lamp lighting devices that illuminate with a low-frequency rectangular wave, the arc movement in an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp cannot be controlled. In this case, since the screen illuminance change becomes large, flickering occurs on the screen. The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a high-pressure discharge lamp lighting device that suppresses arc movement of an extra-high pressure mercury lamp.

  In order to solve the above problems, the invention according to claim 1 is a high pressure discharge lamp lighting device for lighting a high pressure discharge lamp using a low frequency rectangular wave current and a high frequency rectangular wave current as a lamp current of the high pressure discharge lamp. A high-pressure discharge lamp lighting device that applies a high-frequency rectangular wave current for one cycle immediately after a half cycle of the low-frequency rectangular wave current, and the high-frequency rectangular wave current is more input than the lamp current of the high-pressure discharge lamp. The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in the high pressure discharge lamp lighting device according to claim 1, the high-frequency rectangular wave current is applied only to the latter half of one cycle. Is a high pressure discharge lamp lighting device.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the frequency of the low-frequency rectangular wave current is selected from a range of 60 to 500 Hz, and the frequency of the high-frequency rectangular wave current is 5 to 25 of the frequency of the selected low-frequency rectangular wave current. The high-pressure discharge lamp lighting device according to any one of claims 1 to 2, wherein the high-pressure discharge lamp is selected from a range up to twice. 4. The high-frequency rectangular wave current, which is an over-input current value than the lamp current, is set to 1.2 to 5 times the lamp current value during normal operation of the high-pressure discharge lamp. It is a high pressure discharge lamp lighting device as described in the term.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, it is possible to suppress arc movement of a high-pressure discharge lamp such as an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp, reduce screen illuminance change, and prevent flickering on the screen. According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to further reduce arc movement of a high-pressure discharge lamp such as an ultrahigh-pressure mercury lamp, and to further prevent flickering on the screen. According to the invention described in claim 3 and the invention described in claim 4, it is possible to prevent flickering on the screen very well according to the lamp power of a high pressure discharge lamp such as an ultra high pressure mercury lamp.

[Embodiment of the Invention]
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram showing an example of the present invention. A power source 1 (DC or AC rectified and smoothed), chopper circuit 2, full bridge circuit 3, high pressure discharge lamp 4, high frequency rectangular wave oscillation circuit 5, A frequency rectangular wave oscillation circuit 6, a waveform synthesis circuit 7, a full bridge control circuit 8, a PWM control circuit 9, and an overinput signal extraction circuit 10 are configured.

  FIG. 2 is a high-frequency rectangular wave signal waveform diagram of the high-frequency rectangular wave oscillation circuit 5, and FIG. 3 is a low-frequency rectangular wave signal waveform diagram of the low-frequency rectangular wave oscillation circuit 6. The frequency of the high-frequency rectangular wave in FIG. 2 is oscillated in the range of 5 to 25 times the frequency of the low-frequency rectangular wave in FIG.

  FIG. 4 is an output signal waveform diagram of the waveform synthesis circuit 7, and is a waveform diagram in which the high-frequency rectangular wave signal of FIG. 2 is applied for one cycle immediately after the half cycle of the low-frequency rectangular wave signal of FIG. When the output signal of the waveform synthesis circuit 7 is input to the full bridge control circuit 8, the high pressure discharge lamp 4 is turned on with a waveform equivalent to the output signal waveform diagram of the waveform synthesis circuit 7 of FIG.

  FIG. 5 is a detailed diagram of the PWM control circuit 9. The resistors 11a, 11b and 11c connected in parallel to the high pressure discharge lamp 4 detect the lamp voltage, and the current detection resistor 12 connected in series to the high pressure discharge lamp 4 Detect lamp current. The detected lamp voltage value and lamp current value are input to the multiplier 13 and the calculation result is input to the error amplifier 14.

  The PWM control circuit 9 connects resistors 11d and 11e in series with the variable resistor 15 connected to the input terminal of the error amplifier 14 in order to adjust the duty ratio of the chopper circuit 2 based on the calculation result. The switch element 16 is connected in parallel with the resistors 11d and 11e. After the duty ratio of the chopper circuit 2 is controlled by the PWM control circuit 9, it is converted into an appropriate DC voltage to the full bridge control circuit 8, and power is supplied to the high pressure discharge lamp 4.

  Then, when the time of one cycle of the high-frequency rectangular wave portion is extracted as a signal from the signal waveform of the waveform synthesis circuit 7 of FIG. 4 by the over-input signal extraction circuit 10, a signal waveform diagram as shown in FIG. 6 is obtained. When the signal waveform of FIG. 6 is applied to the switch element 16, the switch element 16 is turned on, both ends of the resistor 11d are short-circuited, and the voltage applied to the resistor 11e is increased compared to the normal operation, and the duty ratio is increased. By increasing the duty ratio, the lamp current supplied to the high-pressure discharge lamp 4 increases only when the switch element 16 is conductive, resulting in a lamp current waveform diagram as shown in FIG. FIG. 7 shows a lamp current waveform according to one embodiment of the present invention.

  Further, when the over-input signal extraction circuit 10 extracts the half-cycle time of the latter half of one cycle of the high-frequency rectangular wave portion as a signal from the signal waveform of the waveform synthesis circuit 7 of FIG. 4, a signal waveform diagram as shown in FIG. Become. When the signal waveform of FIG. 8 is given to the switch element 16, a lamp current waveform diagram as shown in FIG. 9 is obtained. FIG. 9 shows a lamp current waveform according to another embodiment of the present invention.

  The flicker generated when switching the current waveform is affected by the temperature of the electrode. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 7 or FIG. 9, when switching from the high-frequency rectangular wave current to the low-frequency rectangular wave current, Since the discharge portion of the electrode is warmed by lighting at the current value, the movement of the arc spot can be suppressed, the movement of the arc can be reduced, the change in screen illuminance can be reduced, and flickering on the screen can be prevented.

  A lamp with a lamp power of 120 W using the high-pressure discharge lamp lighting device of the present invention has a low-frequency rectangular wave current frequency of 90 Hz, a high-frequency rectangular wave current frequency of 1 kHz, twice the lamp current value during normal operation. An aging test for lighting with a current value of about excessive input was performed and screen illuminance measurement was performed. As a result, changes in screen illuminance accompanying the movement of arc generated in high pressure discharge lamps such as ultra high pressure mercury discharge lamps can be reduced It was possible to prevent flickering on the screen.

  Further, when the frequency of the low-frequency rectangular wave current is less than 60 Hz, flickering occurs on the screen, and when the frequency of the low-frequency rectangular wave current is higher than 500 Hz, an acoustic resonance phenomenon occurs. When the frequency of the high-frequency rectangular wave current is less than five times the frequency of the selected low-frequency rectangular wave current, the electrode is loaded and the electrode is broken, and the frequency of the high-frequency rectangular wave current is selected. If the frequency is larger than 25 times the frequency of the generated low-frequency rectangular wave current, the arc spot portion of the electrode cannot be heated, and the arc spot moves. Setting the high-frequency rectangular wave current to 1.2 to 5 times the lamp current value during normal operation of the high-pressure discharge lamp is most effective for warming the arc spot portion of the electrode, and the arc spot is difficult to move. Because it becomes.

  Note that, by adjusting the voltage applied to the resistor 11e with the resistance value of the resistor 11d, it is possible to make the current value of the input higher than the lamp current value corresponding to the lamp power of the high-pressure discharge lamp 4, and the ultra-high pressure mercury lamp It is possible to prevent flicker on the screen very well according to the lamp power of the high pressure discharge lamp.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the movement of the arc spot of a high-pressure discharge lamp such as an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp can be suppressed, and the arc movement can be reduced. be able to. Furthermore, flicker on the screen can be prevented very well according to the lamp power of a high-pressure discharge lamp such as an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp.

1 is a block circuit diagram illustrating an example of the present invention. High-frequency rectangular wave signal waveform diagram Low-frequency rectangular wave signal waveform diagram Waveform synthesis circuit output signal waveform diagram Detailed view of PWM control circuit Signal waveform diagram that takes the time of one cycle of the high-frequency rectangular wave part as a signal Lamp current waveform diagram of one embodiment of the present invention Signal waveform diagram showing half cycle time in the second half of one cycle of high-frequency rectangular wave part Lamp current waveform diagram of another embodiment of the present invention Conventional high pressure discharge lamp lighting device

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Power supply 2 Chopper circuit 3 Full bridge circuit 4 High pressure discharge lamp 5 High frequency rectangular wave oscillation circuit 6 Low frequency rectangular wave oscillation circuit 7 Waveform synthesis circuit 8 Full bridge control circuit 9 PWM control circuit 10 Over input signal extraction circuit 11a, 11b, 11c 11d Resistor 12 Current detection resistor 13 Multiplier 14 Error amplifier 15 Variable resistor 16 Switch element

Claims (1)

A bridge circuit (3) for converting a DC voltage into an AC lamp current, a circuit (2, 9) for supplying the DC voltage to the bridge circuit, and a circuit (8) for controlling alternating conduction in the AC lamp current of the bridge circuit; In a high pressure discharge lamp lighting device comprising:
The control circuit (8) is configured such that the AC lamp current is a low-frequency rectangular current and one cycle of the high-frequency rectangular wave current immediately after the half cycle of the low-frequency rectangular current. A first current portion that lasts for one period, a second current portion that lasts for a second period with a negative polarity that immediately follows the first current portion, a positive that immediately follows the second current portion Controlling the bridge circuit (3) to include a third current portion that continues in polarity for a third period, such that the first period is 5 to 25 times longer than the third period;
The high-voltage discharge lamp lighting device characterized in that the DC voltage supply circuit (2, 9) supplies a DC voltage larger than the first period to the bridge (3) circuit in the third period. .

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