Abstract: An inverter circuit for discharge lamps for multi-lamp lighting in which the value of a negative resistance characteristic of a fluorescent lamp is controlled, and an excessively set reactance is eliminated by causing a shunt transformer to have a reactance exceeding the negative resistance characteristic. Two coils connected to a secondary winding of a step-up transformer of the inverter circuit are arranged and magnetically coupled to each other to form a shunt transformer for shunting current such that magnetic fluxes generated thereby cancel each other out. Discharge lamps are connected to the coils, respectively, with currents flowing therethrough being balanced. Each discharge lamp is lighted because a reactance of an inductance related to the balancing operation which is in an operating frequency of the inverter circuit, exceeds a negative resistance of the discharge lamps.

Abstract: An inverter circuit for discharge lamps for multi-lamp lighting in which the value of a negative resistance characteristic of a fluorescent lamp is controlled, and an excessively set reactance is eliminated by causing a shunt transformer to have a reactance exceeding the negative resistance characteristic. Two coils connected to a secondary winding of a step-up transformer of the inverter circuit are arranged and magnetically coupled to each other to form a shunt transformer for shunting current such that magnetic fluxes generated thereby cancel each other out. Discharge lamps are connected to the coils, respectively, with currents flowing therethrough being balanced. Each discharge lamp is lighted because a reactance of an inductance related to the balancing operation which is in an operating frequency of the inverter circuit, exceeds a negative resistance of discharge lamps.

Abstract: An inverter circuit for discharge lamps, in which transformers are separated into multiple small or middle-sized transformers connected to one another to provide a high-power transformer equivalent to a large transformer. The inverter circuit includes a plurality of leakage flux step-up transformers each having a magnetically continuous central core, a primary winding, and a distributed-constant secondary winding, wherein a part of a resonance circuit is formed among a leakage inductance produced on the secondary winding side, a distributed capacitance of the secondary winding and a parasitic capacitance produced around a discharge lamp close to a proximity conductor, and as the resonance circuit resonates, the secondary winding has a close coupling portion in a vicinity of the primary winding which has a magnetic phase close to that of the primary winding and magnetically close couples with the primary winding.

Abstract: Disclosed is an inverter circuit for discharge lamps, in which transformers are separated into plural small or middle-sized transformers connected to one another to provide a high-power transformer equivalent to a large transformer.

Abstract: An inverter circuit for discharge lamps for multi-lamp lighting in which the value of a negative resistance characteristic of a fluorescent lamp is controlled, and an excessively set reactance is eliminated by causing a shunt transformer to have a reactance exceeding the negative resistance characteristic, whereby shunting characteristics high in performance are obtained while reducing the size of the circuit. In an inverter circuit for discharge lamps for multi-lamp lighting, two coils connected to a secondary winding of a step-up transformer of the inverter circuit are arranged and magnetically coupled to each other to form a shunt transformer for shunting current such that magnetic fluxes generated thereby are opposed to each other to cancel out. Discharge lamps are connected to the coils, respectively, with currents flowing therethrough being balanced with each other.