WO2008038527A1 - Lampe fluorescente à gaz noble, dispositif d'allumage de lampe et dispositif d'affichage à cristaux liquides - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a discharge light source that does not use mercury! / And reduces the environmental load, and a lighting device that lights such a light source.
- Fluorescent lamps use a low-pressure glow discharge using mercury, which is an environmental load substance, as an ultraviolet spring source for exciting a phosphor that is the main light emitting element. For this reason, from the viewpoint of environmental protection, development of a light source that has the same efficiency as current fluorescent lamps without using mercury is required.
- a radiation source that efficiently emits ultraviolet rays having a wavelength (about 100 nm to about 300 nm) capable of effectively exciting and emitting phosphors is required.
- What is attracting attention as an ultraviolet radiation medium by discharge other than mercury is discharge plasma at a low or medium pressure (generally atmospheric pressure or less) mainly composed of rare gases.
- One photon of ultraviolet light is finally converted into one photon of visible light by the phosphor, and energy corresponding to the difference between the energy of ultraviolet light and the energy of visible light is lost.
- the wavelength of ultraviolet rays obtained by discharge be close to that of visible light. This is promising because of the relatively long wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation emitted from the discharge plasma force mainly composed of xenon among rare gas discharges.
- FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of an arc tube of a rare gas fluorescent lamp using dielectric barrier discharge.
- an external electrode 3 in which a conductive metal wire such as nickel is wound in a coil shape is provided on the outer surface of a light-transmitting arc tube 2 made of hard glass or the like having a phosphor film formed on the inner surface. It is.
- An inner electrode 1 of a cold cathode is hermetically sealed at one end of the arc tube 2.
- the arc tube 2 is filled with a rare gas mainly composed of xenon at a predetermined pressure.
- a high-frequency rectangular Norse voltage is applied between the internal electrode 1 and the external electrode 3.
- the outside of the external electrode 3 is covered with a translucent insulating tube 4 to insulate the rectangular pulse voltage from the surroundings.
- a dielectric near discharge is generated between the internal electrode 1 and the external electrode 3 using the tube wall of the arc tube 2 as a charge barrier, and is efficiently generated from a rare gas such as enclosed xenon. It emits ultraviolet rays, which excites the phosphor layer to emit light.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-42737
- Patent Document 1 In order to avoid this, a means of changing the winding pitch of the external electrode 3 is taken. By narrowing the winding pitch in the vicinity of the inner electrode 1 where the luminance decreases and in the portion far from the inner electrode 1, the input power per unit length is increased locally, and the luminance of that portion is increased.
- the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems.
- Mercury has been developed so that the luminance distribution in the longitudinal direction can be made uniform even at a low driving voltage without lowering the luminous efficiency. Do not use! /, To provide a noble gas fluorescent lamp and its lighting device.
- the lamp lighting device is a lamp lighting device including a fluorescent lamp and a power supply circuit that supplies a driving voltage to the fluorescent lamp.
- the fluorescent lamp has a light-emitting tube made of a light-transmitting material in which a phosphor film is formed on the inner surface and enclosing a discharge gas, and a first internal electrode that is sealed at one end of the light-emitting tube and applies a high-frequency rectangular alternating voltage And a second internal electrode sealed at an end of the arc tube opposite to the first internal electrode, and an external electrode provided so as to be along the longitudinal direction of the arc tube.
- the fluorescent lamp includes capacitive internal charge discharging means electrically connected to the second internal electrode.
- a fluorescent lamp includes an arc tube made of a light-transmitting material in which a phosphor film is formed on the inner surface and enclosing a discharge gas, and a high-frequency rectangular alternating voltage sealed at one end of the arc tube.
- Internal charge discharging means and an external charge unit that is provided along the longitudinal direction of the arc tube at a predetermined distance from the arc tube.
- a partial electrode is provided along the longitudinal direction of the arc tube at a predetermined distance from the arc tube.
- a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and a backlight device that illuminates the liquid crystal panel.
- the knocklight device includes the lamp lighting device described above.
- the present invention discharges residual charge during discharge through the capacitive internal charge discharging means to the outside of the arc tube, and controls the amount of residual charge inside the arc tube, thereby allowing polarity in dielectric barrier discharge. It is possible to lower the plasma conductivity during inversion and to make the discharge efficiency uniform over the entire length of the arc tube. As a result, it is possible to provide an efficient noble gas fluorescent lamp for backlight with uniform luminance distribution in the longitudinal direction of the arc tube.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a rare gas fluorescent lamp according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a graph showing the effect of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram for explaining the discharge state of the rare gas fluorescent lamp of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an electrical circuit configuration according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a method for measuring capacitance in the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a capacitance measurement result showing the effect of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a liquid crystal backlight unit according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 shows a configuration of a liquid crystal display device according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a rare gas fluorescent lamp according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the arc tube 102 is a light-transmitting hard glass cylindrical tube such as borosilicate glass, and the inner surface has an excitation spectrum that is particularly strong in the vacuum ultraviolet region (mainly 200 nm or less).
- a selected three-wavelength phosphor film (not shown) is formed.
- Inside the arc tube 102 a rare gas mainly made of xenon is sealed as a discharge gas at a pressure of about 16 kPa at room temperature.
- Inner electrodes 101 (101a, 101b) of cup-shaped cold cathodes are hermetically sealed at both ends of the arc tube 102.
- the first and second internal electrodes 101 (101a, 101b) are made of a metal having a high melting point and high electrical conductivity such as nickel.
- the arc tube 102 is separated from the external electrode 103 made of a substantially flat aluminum material by a spacer 105 made of an insulating material such as silicone resin. 3. Omm (however, the outer surface of the arc tube 102 and the external (The shortest distance from the electrode 103).
- the external electrode 103 has a high brightness reflective coating on its surface.
- the substantially flat plate shape does not necessarily need to be a completely flat plate. For example, it is allowed to have a concave shape having a width at least about the diameter of the arc tube 102 and having a radius of curvature larger than the distance to the axis of the arc tube 102.
- One of the internal electrodes 101 101a is used as a driving internal electrode.
- Internal drive Lighting is driven by applying a rectangular alternating voltage with a frequency of 20 kHz between the electrode 101a and the external electrode 103 from a lamp lighting power supply circuit (not shown in FIG. 1, see FIG. 4).
- the external electrode 103 is set to a reference potential (ground potential).
- a voltage is applied, since the glass tube wall of the arc tube 102 acts as a charge barrier, a dielectric barrier discharge can be realized between the driving internal electrode 101a and the external electrode 103.
- the internal electrode for adjusting the internal charge of the cold cathode (hereinafter referred to as "adjusting internal electrode") is the same as the driving internal electrode 101a. ) 101b is sealed.
- the adjustment internal electrode 101b is electrically and physically connected to the conductor member 104 outside the arc tube 102, and operates as internal charge discharging means.
- the internal charge discharging means has a function of discharging charges that can be accumulated at the end of the arc tube 102.
- the conductor member 104 is a flat plate-like conductive member disposed in a plane parallel to the external electrode 103.
- both the adjustment internal electrode 101b and the conductor member 104 are at a floating potential.
- the conductor member 104 is made of an aluminum plate having an area of about lcm 2 and the distance from the external electrode 103 is about 4.5 mm.
- FIG. 2 shows the measurement result of the luminance distribution in the longitudinal direction of the rare gas fluorescent lamp of the first embodiment.
- a case of a conventional configuration including no conductor charge discharging means including the conductor member 104 and a case of the configuration of the present embodiment (the present invention) using the conductor member 104 are shown.
- Solid lines curves Pl, P2 are conventional cases where the conductor member 104 is not connected
- broken lines curves Ql, Q2 are cases where the conductor member 104 (area lcm 2 ) is connected.
- the applied voltage is 2. OkV, the conductor member 104 is not connected.
- the luminance on the adjustment internal electrode 101a side is high, and the luminance on the adjustment internal electrode 101b side is low. In other words, it can be seen that the applied voltage is insufficient. On the other hand, when conductor member 104 is connected, almost uniform luminance distribution can be achieved even with the same applied voltage of 2. OkV.
- the plasma generated by the initial discharge remained in the space without drifting (referred to as “residual charge”) 1S ⁇ , a state similar to the so-called “norse afterglow plasma” It exists. Since the plasma behaves as a conductor having a finite electrical resistance, the tip A of the residual charge becomes a pseudo internal electrode having a potential that is lower than the potential of the driving internal electrode 101a by a voltage drop due to the residual charge. .
- This stretching speed is usually non- Since it is always fast (1 X 10 6 m / sec or more), in the case of a frequency of about 20 kHz as used in the first embodiment, a Norse lamp current flows immediately after the polarity of the applied voltage is reversed. The half-cycle (25 microseconds) until the polarity is reversed again is a rest period in which almost no current flows.
- the ultraviolet light that excites the phosphor is emitted when the xenon excimer dissociates from the resonance line of 147 nm emitted from the xenon excited atom. It consists of continuous radiation with a peak near 172 nm. In particular, it is important to improve the lamp efficiency that the continuous radiation from the excimer has high efficiency and it is effectively generated.
- An excimer is formed by a collision reaction (three-body collision process) between one xenon atom in an excited state and two xenon atoms in the ground state.
- the energy (electron temperature) of electrons in the plasma must be high in order to efficiently generate xenon-excited atoms. Therefore, the resonance line emission at 147 nm is emitted mainly in a Norse shape when the polarity of the applied voltage is reversed, in which electrons are accelerated by a high electric field.
- the inventors of the present application have studied a means for positively controlling the residual charge in the arc tube 102 without waiting for natural disappearance based on the consideration of the physical process as described above. As a result, the idea was to provide internal charge discharging means as in the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing the configuration of the rare gas fluorescent lamp shown in FIG.
- the flat conductor member 104 is set to a floating potential (not grounded) as a preferred embodiment, the conductor member 104 and the external electrode 103 are arranged in parallel.
- a plate capacitor Cx is formed, which operates as the capacitive internal charge adjustment means X. That is, residual charge plasma that has been stretched according to the process described above. When reaching the end of the arc tube 102, it contacts the internal electrode for adjustment 101b.
- the discharge can be advanced even at a low applied voltage, it is possible to suppress a decrease in efficiency due to an increase in current density even in the vicinity of the driving internal electrode 101a. Therefore, the luminance distribution in the longitudinal direction can be made uniform with a lower driving voltage.
- the potential of the conductor member 104 is preferably a floating potential without clipping to another potential. When the plasma is stretched, the potential of the conductor member 104 becomes equal to the plasma potential (strictly, there is a difference only by the sheath potential), so that the charge discharge is performed smoothly and smoothly as necessary. It becomes easier to balance.
- the adjustment internal electrode 101b is connected to the conductor member 104 outside and is exposed to the inside of the arc tube 102, and the residual charge plasma in the arc tube 102 during the rest period and also during the progress of discharge. And maintain the same potential. Therefore, the discharge is limited to the dielectric barrier discharge between the driving internal electrode 101a and the external electrode 103, and the adjustment internal electrode 101b does not contribute to the discharge! /.
- the value of the slope at this time was very good at +0.00000 65.
- the good range of the luminance gradient with respect to the applied voltage is narrow, and the luminance gradient changes continuously as the applied voltage changes.
- a good luminance distribution can be maintained at a certain voltage or higher (approximately 2. OkVO-p or higher in this embodiment). This shows that the stability of the luminance distribution characteristics with respect to the applied voltage can be increased by introducing the conductor member 104 in the product design, which is an important advantage.
- the luminance distribution will not be disturbed. .
- the arc tube 102 in which the electrodes are sealed at both ends is created using a process for manufacturing a normal cold cathode fluorescent lamp, and the conductor is connected to the electrode at one end thereof.
- the adjustment internal electrode 101b may be formed by connecting the member 104, and the opposite electrode may be used as the drive internal electrode 101a.
- a circuit element for example, a capacitor with a high withstand voltage and a small capacity
- the above-described great effects can be obtained without a large process modification during mass production. it can. Therefore, the increase in cost can be minimized.
- the preferred internal charge discharging means in the present embodiment is that the conductor member 104 has a flat plate shape, the area thereof is lcm 2 , and the distance from the external electrode 103 is about 4.5 mm. It was. The electric capacity in this case was about 0.2 pF from the measurement result. The method for measuring the electric capacity at this time will be described below.
- a power measuring capacitor 150 is inserted between the external electrode 103 and the ground terminal of the power supply circuit 200, and the voltage Vq between both ends thereof is measured. From the capacitance of the power measuring capacitor 150 and the measured Vq, the amount of charge accumulated in the external electrode 103 can be determined. Since this accumulated charge is an integral value of the current, if the graph of applied voltage V is plotted on the horizontal axis and the accumulated charge Q is plotted on the vertical axis (V-Q Lissajous), as shown in Figure 6, the lamp is charged and discharged. It becomes a figure with hysteresis. By calculating this area, the lamp power for one cycle of the voltage waveform can be determined. Maru.
- the slope when the upper side and the lower side of the figure are viewed as straight lines is a physical quantity obtained by dividing the amount of charge by the voltage, and thus is considered to represent the quantity corresponding to the capacity.
- this amount includes the influence of the current associated with the discharge when the lamp is lit, which is based only on the geometric capacity of the light emitting tube 102 and the external electrode 103. Therefore, in order to minimize the influence of the discharge, only the part immediately after the voltage inversion is taken out, and the slope C1 when the driving internal electrode 101a is inverted from the cathode to the anode and conversely when the inversion from the anode to the cathode is performed.
- the slope C2 was determined. As a result of many experiments, the values of C1 and C2 hardly change even when the applied voltage or frequency is changed. Therefore, it is assumed that the values reflect the geometric capacity of the lamp.
- FIG. 7 shows the geometry of the case where the conductor member 104 (area lcm 2 , distance 3 mm of the external electrode 103 force) is attached and the case where the conductor member 104 is not attached based on the configuration of the first embodiment.
- the results of measuring the static capacities C1 and C2 are shown.
- the error bar is the standard deviation of the measurement results for multiple samples. From FIG. 7, when the conductor member 104 is mounted, both Cl and C2 increase in value, and the increment can be seen as about 0.2 pF. As mentioned earlier, this is consistent with the value calculated assuming a parallel plate capacitor.
- the reason why the values of C1 and C2 are different is that the mobility (electrons or ions) varies depending on the polarity of the driving internal electrode 101a, so that the difference in mobility affects each of them.
- the necessary capacity Cx of the internal charge discharging means can be changed according to other conditions, and the dimensions of the conductor member 104 can be changed accordingly.
- the capacity Cx of the internal charge discharging means increases, and the amount of charge that can be discharged increases. As a result, it is possible to obtain an effect of making the luminance distribution uniform even with a lower applied voltage.
- the force S and the like simultaneously increase the discharge current, leading to a decrease in the luminous efficiency as a whole.
- the efficiency decreased by about 10% at an area of about 4 cm 2 or more.
- the area of the conductor member 104 is too small, it is naturally difficult to obtain the effect of making the luminance distribution uniform.
- the efficiency is reduced, the luminance in the longitudinal direction is made uniform, and the drive power is reduced.
- the preferable range of the electric capacity Cx of the internal charge discharging means was in the range of 0.1 lpF to 10 pF. If it is smaller than this, the effect of making the luminance distribution uniform cannot be obtained, and if it is larger than this, the efficiency decreases, and the deterioration of characteristics such as flickering due to unstable light emission is seen.
- Such a suitable electric capacity can be arbitrarily realized by a combination of the area of the conductor member 104 and the distance to the external electrode 103 because the internal charge discharging means is a parallel plate capacitor.
- the material of the conductor member 104 is not limited to aluminum as long as it is a metal.
- a capacitor element having a high withstand voltage having a capacity in the above-mentioned preferable range can be substituted although it is not general.
- the force using a cup-shaped cold cathode for the internal electrode 101 is not necessarily limited to this shape. By making the shape simpler, the cost can be reduced, and an emitter material can be applied to reduce the loss due to cathode fall.
- the external electrode 103 is an aluminum flat plate with a high-brightness reflective coating in this embodiment, other configurations are possible as long as the material has sufficient electrical conductivity. It is. For example, it is possible to increase the front luminance by making the arc tube 102 a substantially paraboloid near the focal point.
- the surface of the external electrode 103 can be a diffusion surface.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration of a light emitting portion of a liquid crystal backlight unit using the rare gas fluorescent lamp shown in the first embodiment.
- a liquid crystal backlight unit 300 in FIG. 8 has a configuration in which a plurality of rare gas fluorescent lamps 10 shown in the first embodiment are connected in parallel.
- the arc tube 102 is directly supported by the spacer 105 in order to maintain a predetermined distance from the external electrode 103 (about 3 mm in the present embodiment).
- a support member 106 made of a dielectric material such as a resin block is inserted between the conductor member 104 of the arc tube 102 and the external electrode 103.
- the conductor member 104 is bonded to the upper surface of the support member 106 to determine the position of the arc tube 102.
- the support member 106 is made of an epoxy resin having a relative dielectric constant of about 3.0, the area of the conductor member 104 is almost equal to 1/3 compared to the case where the support member 106 is not inserted. The effect is obtained.
- the laser power supply circuit 200 sees the laser.
- the overall load on the amplifier is capacitive. Therefore, in the present invention, since the current flowing through each lamp is limited by the load capacity, it is different from a normal cold cathode lamp that shows negative characteristics in current and voltage! It is possible to turn on (drive) the lamp.
- the driving internal electrode 101a is connected to the common power supply line 108 through the connector 107 and driven by the single power supply circuit 200.
- the adjustment internal electrode 101b is independent for each lamp. This is to prevent current from concentrating on the previously lit lamp when the timing of discharge progress is shifted due to lamp variations.
- the number of power lamps shown in the case where eight lamps are turned on can be appropriately increased or decreased depending on the size of the television screen or the like.
- the material of the support member 106 it is possible to select an appropriate material in consideration of its electrical characteristics and aging deterioration characteristics. In that case, the area of the conductor member 104 and the distance from the external electrode 103 should be appropriately designed.
- the external electrode 103 may be constituted by a force using an aluminum flat plate, for example, a substantially flat conductor independent for each arc tube 102. In this case, it is desirable that all independent external electrodes 103 have the same reference potential.
- FIG. 9 shows a configuration of a liquid crystal display device using the liquid crystal backlight unit of the second embodiment.
- the liquid crystal display device 500 includes a liquid crystal panel 400, a liquid crystal panel drive circuit 430 that drives the liquid crystal panel according to an input image signal, and a backlight device 450 that illuminates the liquid crystal panel 400.
- the knock light device 450 includes, for example, the liquid crystal backlight unit 300 shown in the second embodiment.
- the backlight device 45 can illuminate the liquid crystal panel 400 with backlight light having a uniform luminance distribution in the lamp longitudinal direction. For this reason, it is possible to display a high-quality image without luminance unevenness on the entire screen.
- the backlight device 450 can realize a uniform luminance distribution independent of voltage, and therefore, even when the liquid crystal display device is controlled to change the luminance for each scene, the backlight device 450 has a high luminance level. Image quality can be displayed.
- the present invention provides a fluorescent lamp excellent in brightness uniformity and high efficiency without using mercury. And is useful as a liquid crystal backlight, particularly a liquid crystal backlight for a large-screen television.
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