• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1031-1033
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• 2006

In this study, in order to solve these problems, a new type of electronic ballast, which is composed of rectifier, active power factor corrector, series resonant half bridge inverter and piezoelectric transformer, was proposed for driving T5 fluorescent lamp. Driving of piezoelectric transformer was carried out with input region for the ring electrode and output region for the dot electrode. A 35W (T5) fluorescent lamp was successfully driven by the fabricated ballast with piezoelectric transformer.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.731-738
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• 2012

A new fluorescent dummy load to replace one of the fluorescent lamps in a dual lamp type rapid-start ballast for halving the lamp power is proposed. Using a circuit composed of a fundamental compensation circuit and a harmonic filter circuit, a new fluorescent dummy load having superior characteristics than a conventional dummy load is developed. The design principle and architecture of the proposed fluorescent dummy load is explained and verified by experiments.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2015

Due to the declining LED price and environment-friendly energy policies, CO2 emission reduction and energy-saving, the LED lighting industry is accelerating rapidly. In particular, the needs for LED lamp, replacing the existing fluorescent lamp without exchange luminaire or driver circuits, are also rapidly increasing. Therefore, replacement for T8 fluorescent lamp, LED T8 lamp was developed and standardized. However, except LED T8 lamps, other lamps' regulations or standards were not enacted. Also, the stability of fluorescent lamp substitutable LED lamp is low due to the difference in electrical characteristics and mismatch between the existing fluorescent lamp ballast and LED lamp. Therefore, many are struggling while developing fluorescent lamp substitutable LED lamp. In this paper describes the properties of existing fluorescent lamp ballasts and the considerations while developing fluorescent lamp substitutable LED lamp : demonstrating its validity by experiments the developed fluorescent lamp substitutable LED lamp prototype.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2005

전극 양단에 안정 콘덴서(Ballast Contenser)를 부착한 냉음극 형광램프와 외관전극의 용량성 결합으로 동작되는 외부전극 형광램프의 전류-전압 방전특성을 조사하였다. 냉음극 형광램프의 전극 양단에 인가되는 전압과 전류의 특성은 전압의 증가로 암전류 영역과 타운젠트 점화방전을 거처서 음극 강하를 통한 전형적인 글로우 방전을 보여준다. 안정 콘덴서에 인가되는 전압을 포함한 전류-전압은 안정 콘덴서에 인가되는 전압이 상대적으로 크기 때문에 냉음극 강하가 나타나지 않고, 글로우 방전 영역에서 전압의 증가에 따라서 전류가 증가한다. 외부전극 자체가 캐패시터인 외부전극 형광램프에서의 전류-전압은 안정 콘덴서를 포함한 냉음극 형광램프와 동일한 특성을 보여준다. 따라서 외부전극 형광램프는 동작 전압에서 글로우 방전의 특성을 갖으며, 외부전극 자체가 안정 콘덴서의 기능을 한다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.17-23
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• 1999

이 논문에서는 현재 사용되고 있는 Dimming 형 IC의 특성에 최적인 전자식 안정기의 인버터내 회로상수를 결정하여 Dimming 형 전자식 안정기를 제작하였고, 제작된 안정기를 이용하여 형광램프의 전기적 특성과 광출력 특성을 비교하여 회로상수 선정법의 타당성을 증명하였다. 또한 제작된 Dimming 형 전자식 안정기를 마이크로프로세서를 이용하여 수동조작 뿐만 아니라 PC를 통한 원격자동제어가 가능하도록 하였고, 램프의 동작 상태, 주위 온도, 전자식 안정기의 이상유무를 PC의 화면상에 표시되도록 프로그램하여 원격제어시스템을 구축하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.103-109
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• 2008

본 논문은 무전극램프의 조광제어에 관한 안정기 설계방법을 제안하였다. 주파수 가변을 통한 전력제어는 램프의 등가 임피던스를 나타내는 유도코일간의 결합계수, 플라즈마 저항은 전력에 대한 함수이기 때문에 부적합하다. 따라서 본 논문은 직류링크전압을 가변함으로서 램프 임피던스와 독립적으로 램프의 출력 전력을 제어함으로서 무전극램프를 조광제어 하였다. 직류 링크 전압 가변방법은 벅 컨버터에 의해 제어하였으며, 제안된 설계 방법의 시뮬레이션과 실험 결과를 통하여 논문의 타당함을 증명하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 V
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• pp.2927-2930
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• 2003

This paper has been studied the ballast for multiple lamps. Many fluorescent lamps are demanded in where industrial buildings and public buildings. Using the proposed ballast for multiple lamps, we can decrease the cost and the space for installing. Also in the paper, the protection circuit is introduced for over voltage and current. The general problem of the ballast for multiple lamps is to shut down the ballast circuit in the ease of one abnormal lamp. But the proposed method is not shut down all the circuit even if one lamp is in an abnormal condition.

• 한국조명전기설비학회지:조명전기설비
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.220-220
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• 1999

This paper describes the high efficiency inverter ballast circuit using very cheap microprocessor, which has been developed by the author. A variety of soft-switching techniques have been proposed to reduce the switching losses and EMI problems that occur with higher switching frequencies in switched inverter ballast. The inverter ballast circuit, which employs a temperature sensing circuits has been also proposed to improve starting performance of the fluorescent lamps. That is, the inverter ballast circuit, which employs a soft-starting circuit and soft-switching techniques to implement the power factor correction and to mitigate of power-loss and increase a life time of the fluorescent lamps, has become an attractive performance for ballasting the fluorescent lamps. In this paper, the operation and the control of the inverter ballast are described in detail and experimental results are presented. As the experimental results, when environment temperature is at -40℃, the inverter ballast circuit has low THD(4.8%) of the input current and large power factor(98%) of the lamp current. The proposed improved ballast circuit appears to be a good performance for ballasting fluorescent lamps.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2003

The thesis is used by PSpice circuit model to the characteristics of a fluorescent lamp modified form of he classical Cassie and Mayr equations in order to show the characteristics of HID(High-Intensity Discharge) Lamp. This is useful for applying high-frequency electric ballast for HID Lamp, and show that the result of experimentations and simulations, such as lamp rating, input voltage, high-frequency electric ballast which is using the ABM circuit model of the low pressure sodium lamp, come to the voltage and current wave.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.164-172
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• 2009

Recently, 2-dimensional flat light sources have been attracting much attention for its use in LCD backlight applications because of its high luminous efficiency and uniformity. A long-gap discharge, mercury-tree flat fluorescent lamp has been developed, which shows a high brightness ($>5000\;cd/m^2$) and high luminous efficacy (60 lm/W). Additionally, it has a wide operating margin and stable driving condition with the aid of an auxiliary electrode. For driving the lamp, a narrow pulse power to maintain the glow discharge state is required. Since there has been no research for this kind of lamp driving, this paper proposes a newly developed short-pulse, high-voltage lamp-driving scheme. The proposed lamp system uses a ballast with a coupled-inductor in order to raise the short pulse voltage up to the lamp ignition level and to obtain energy-recovery action during the glow discharge mode. The operation principles are presented and also the system performances such as the lighting efficiency, spatial and angular uniformities are evaluated by hardware experiments. The results show that the proposed lighting system is a good candidate for the next-generation of LCD backlight systems.