Abstract:
Incandescent lamps connected in circuits to keep a maintenance current flowing through the lamp filament when the lamp is off to improve the ductile-brittle properties of the filament. Lamps are also disclosed which have an internal impedance element to be used in the circuits for producing the maintenance current.
Abstract:
Tungsten filaments for lamps and methods of making the same in which a second phase material is dispersed in doped tungsten filament material to pair with bubbles produced by the dopant which are used to make the filament resistant to sag. The second phase material reduces migration of bubbles to hot spots on the operating filament and also retards bubble coalescence into groups. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the second phase material additive is introduced in elemental form and the filament is heated in a nitrogen atmosphere to form a nitride of the additive.
Abstract:
A mandrel and a method for manufacturing filament coils for electric lamps. The mandrel is coated with a material, such as copper, which does not alloy with the filament coil during annealing. The coil is wound on the coated mandrel and the mandrel is dissolved after the filament is annealed.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing an annealed tungsten filament wire for electric lamps with a reduced amount of impurities in which the filament wire is wound on a mandrel, either the wire or the mandrel is coated with a protective material, the wire is annealed at an elevated temperature, and the wire is removed from the mandrel.