@article{oai:nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005568, author = {Yanai, Takeshi and Sakamoto, Y. and Nakano, Masaki and Kakehashi, H. and Okada, A. and Fukunaga, Hirotoshi}, issue = {3-2}, journal = {Magnetics Society of Japan}, month = {Mar}, note = {We investigated reduction in an eddy current loss for a power coupler in an electrodeless discharged lamp with our previously proposed analysis method for plasma in the lamp. We confirmed that a large eddy current flow was observed at the top of an Al stage in the power coupler and the loss was reduced by a decrease in the height of the Al stage. This result suggests that a decrease in the height is effective to reduce wasted power losses and implies the possibility of an improvement in the lamp efficiency. We also confirmed that upward-moving and moderate-elongation of the ferrite core in the power coupler is effective to reduce the wasted loss. In order to verify the result, we evaluated the lamp efficiency of a lamp with a modified power coupler. Resultantly, the lamp efficiency was increased by approximately 3 lm/W (lumen per Watt). Therefore, we can conclude that reducing the eddy current loss in the power coupler is one of the important factors to obtain high lamp efficiency., Magnetics Society of Japan, 37(3-2), pp.151-154; 2013}, pages = {151--154}, title = {Reduction in eddy current loss for a power coupler in an electrodeless discharged lamp}, volume = {37}, year = {2013} }