Patent ID: 6369519
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: H05B,Y02B,Y10S

Abstract:
Dielectric-barrier discharge lamp light source equipment, having a dielectric-barrier discharge lamp with a discharge plasma space filled with a discharge gas in which a dielectric-barrier discharge will create eximer molecules, with a dielectric positioned between the discharge gas and at least one of a pair of electrodes that give rise to a discharge phenomenon in the discharge gas, and dielectric-barrier discharge lamp power supply equipment to impress high voltage on the electrodes of the dielectric-barrier discharge lamp;in which the power supply equipment impresses a high-voltage, roughly periodic waveform on the dielectric-barrier discharge lamp through a transformer; and in which, after passing a point in time when the voltage value to start a dielectric-barrier discharge is reached, voltage is impressed on the dielectric-barrier discharge lamp for a period of not more than 3 &mgr;s from the largest voltage value to the next largest voltage value.