Abstract:
A cathode sub-assembly is comprised of a retainer, a cathode and a collar, each of which has smooth unthreaded surfaces that slidably engage each other. A shield serves to hold the sub-assembly in a support plate. The cathode projects from the sub-assembly into an arc chamber with a tortuous path created therebetween for passage of a plasma flow.
Abstract:
A gas discharge lamp includes a lamp tube, two electrodes and an electron emitter. The lamp tube has a hermetic discharge chamber filled with a rare gas and two sealing neck portions. Each of the sealing neck portions has a metallic foil disposed therein. Each of the two electrodes includes an emitting part and a connecting part. The connecting part is connected to a metallic wire via the metallic foil. The metallic wire extends out of the sealing neck portion to form a circuit contact. The electron emitter is made of a conductive material and electrically connected to one of the electrodes. A portion of the electron emitter disposed in the hermetic discharge chamber, and a diameter of an end of the electron emitter in the hermetic discharge chamber is less than an outer diameter of the connecting part.
Abstract:
A ceramic gas discharge metal halide (CDM) lamp (10) capable of retrofitting into existing high pressure iodide (HPI) metal halide and high pressure mercury vapor (HP) lamp fixtures for significient energy savings, the CDM lamp (10) having a ceramic discharge vessel (12) containing a pair of discharge electrodes (17, 18), a Penning mixture of the rare gases neon and argon, and a chemical fill which includes an oxygen dispenser and which restricts strong oxygen binders to 5 mole percent or less. In a preferred embodiment, the discharge vessel (12) has an aspect ratio R of less than 2, a wall thickness t of up to 1.2 mm, a spacing d between the discharge electrodes (17, 18) of up to 14 mm, and a passive antenna (26) on the outer wall of the discharge vessel (12), with the shortest distance a between a discharge electrode (17, 18) and the floating antenna (26) of up to 7 mm.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a tungsten electrode for ultra-high pressure mercury lamps comprising an electrode rod, a first coil wound around the front end side of the electrode, and a second coil wound around the electrode rod starting from the end of the first coil. The tungsten wire of the first coil is smaller in diameter than the tungsten wire of the second coil.
Abstract:
It is provided a dielectric barrier discharge lamp (10) for providing ultraviolet light, comprising an outer tube (12) filled with a discharge gas for providing ultraviolet light, an inner tube (14) arranged at least partially inside the outer tube (12), an outer electrode (16) electrically connected to the outer tube (12) and an inner electrode (18) electrically connected to the inner tube (14), wherein the inner electrode (18) comprises a conductor (20) and a plurality of an conductive granulated material (22) for providing an electrical contact between the conductor (20) and the inner tube (14). Due to the conductive granulated material (22) an electrical contact between the conductor (20) and the inner tube (14) is safeguarded and different thermal expansions of the inner electrode (18) and the inner tube (14) are compensated at the same time without applying mechanical stress to the inner tube (14). This leads to a dielectric barrier discharge lamp (10), which comprises an increased life time without the need for external cooling.
Abstract:
A high intensity discharge lamp comprising a discharge vessel having a wall enclosing a discharge space, an ionizable material contained in said space, and at least two electrodes each having an embedded portion and an electrode shaft extending from the wall of the discharge vessel and ending with a tip of the electrode, the electrodes being arranged in said space for establishment of an electric arc between said tips. Each of the electrode shafts of the electrodes comprises a thickened portion arranged between the embedded portion and the tip of the electrode, a first shaft section extending between the embedded portion and the thickened portion, the first shaft section having a first length and a first shaft diameter, and a second shaft section extending between the thickened portion and the tip of the electrode, the second shaft section having a second length and a second shaft diameter. The thickened portion has a greater overall diameter than any of the first and second shaft diameters thereby having a higher specific surface than the specific surface of the first shaft section and the specific surface of the second shaft section, respectively, and being arranged to limit the temperature of the electrode shaft at the inner wall by heat dissipation. The thickened portion has a minimum distance from the inner wall of at least 50% of the first shaft diameter, the length of the second shaft section is at least 100% of the second shaft diameter, and the first length is at most equal to the second length.
Abstract:
It is possible to enhance the luminance of a cold-cathode type discharge lamp and to contribute to a prolongation of service life thereof. A discharge lamp 1 is provided with an electrode 3 having a cup 4 with such a shape that a bottom is provided at each of both opposed ends of the glass tube 2. The cup 4 is connected to a lead-in wire 8 which is inserted through the end of the glass tube 2 and held thereby. The collision-preventing ring 5 covering an end surface of the cup 4 is provided to the open end 4a of the cup 4. The porous tungsten disk 6 impregnated with a ternary metal oxide composed of barium (Ba), aluminum (Al), and calcium (Ca) as an electron emission material is provided at a bottom in an inside of the cup 4.
Abstract:
An electrode for a discharge lamp (I) with a core (11) and a sheath (12), which surrounds at least regions of the core (11). The sheath (12) has, in the longitudinal direction (A), a continuous bore (121), which has a first diameter (d1) in a first subregion and a second diameter (d2) in a second subregion.
Abstract:
The invention relates a high-pressure discharge lamp, which comprises:an outer bulb (1) in which a discharge vessel (11) is arranged around a longitudinal axis (22),the discharge vessel enclosing, in a gastight manner, a discharge space (13) provided with an ionizable filling,the discharge vessel having a first (2) and a second (3) mutually opposed portion forming a first and a second leadthrough through which a first (40) and a second (50) leadthrough conductor, respectively, extend to a pair of electrodes (6,7) arranged in the discharge space,a lamp base (8) of electrically insulating material supporting the discharge vessel via a first (4) and a second (5) current supply conductor, each having a weld with the respective first and second leadthrough conductor, forming a first and a second current path to the pair of electrodes,the lamp base also supporting the outer bulb,the outer bulb enclosing the first and second current supply conductors,the outer bulb being connected to the lamp base in a gas-tight manner,the lamp base being provided with first (14) and second (15) contact members connected electrically to the respective first and second current supply conductors.
Abstract:
To provide a ceramic metal halide lamp having a rated lamp wattage of not less than 450 W, which will not cause flicker due to instable arc during operating of the lamp and early blacking of an arc tube. In a metal halide lamp having a rated lamp wattage of greater than or equal to 450 W, which includes: a translucent ceramic arc tube enclosure including: a main tube inside which a discharge space is formed; and two narrow tubes having smaller diameter than the main tube, each connected to either end of the main tube; two electrodes; and a metal halide provided inside the arc tube enclosure, in which one of the two electrodes is disposed so that it protrudes inside the main tube from inside of one of the two narrow tubes, and the other one of the two electrodes is disposed so that it protrudes inside the main tube from the other one of the two narrow tubes, and when the rated lamp wattage is denoted by W (watt), an inside diameter of the main tube by D (mm), an electrode protruding length which is the distance from boundary between the main tube and the narrow tubes to an end of the electrode by L (mm), and the distance between ends of the two electrodes by E (mm), a bulb wall loading G (watt/cm2) represented by G=W/(3.14×D×E×0.01) falls within the range of 15≦G≦40, and a relationship 0.32≦L/D≦0.0003×W+0.465 is established.
Abstract translation:提供具有不小于450W的额定灯功率的陶瓷金属卤化物灯,其不会在灯操作期间由于不稳定的电弧和电弧管的早期黑化而引起闪烁。 在具有大于或等于450W的额定灯功率的金属卤化物灯中,其包括:半透明陶瓷电弧管外壳,包括:主管,其内形成有放电空间; 和两根细管,其直径小于主管,每根细管连接到主管的任一端; 两个电极 以及设置在所述电弧管外壳内的金属卤化物,其中所述两个电极中的一个设置成使得其从所述两个窄管中的一个的内部突出到所述主管的内部,并且所述两个电极中的另一个设置成使得 它从两个窄管中的另一个突出在主管内,当额定灯功率用W(瓦特)表示时,主管的内径为D(mm),电极突出长度为 从主管和窄管之间的距离到电极的端部的距离为L(mm),两个电极的端部之间的距离为E(mm),灯泡壁负载G(瓦/ cm 2)由 G = W /(3.14xDxEx 0.01)落在15≤G≤40的范围内,建立了关系0.32 <= L / D <= 0.0003×W + 0.465。