Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Piezoelectric transformer driving device, cold-cathode tube inverter, cold-cathode tube driving device, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 压电变压器驱动装置,冷阴极管逆变器,冷阴极管驱动装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US12694321Application Date: 2010-01-27
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Publication No.: US08174200B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Toru Kosaka , Masao Yaji , Akira Hagiwara
- Applicant: Toru Kosaka , Masao Yaji , Akira Hagiwara
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
- Current Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mots Law, PLLC
- Agent Marvin A. Motsenbocker
- Priority: JP2009-016766 20090128
- Main IPC: H05B37/02
- IPC: H05B37/02 ; H01J29/96

Abstract:
A piezoelectric transformer driving device including: an oscillator; a frequency-divider outputting a pulse by dividing a clock signal from the oscillator by a frequency-divide ratio received thereto; a switching element driven by the pulse and intermittently applying a voltage to a primary side of a piezoelectric transformer; a frequency-divide ratio instructing unit holding a frequency-divide ratio instruction value of a real number having an integer part and an fractional part; a binarization unit binarizing the frequency-divide ratio instruction value into two different integer frequency-divide ratios and selectively outputting the frequency-divide ratios. The binarization unit adjusts an appearance ratio of the frequency-divide ratios such that an average of the frequency-divide ratios output from the binarization unit is equal to an average of the frequency-divide ratio instruction value.
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