Electrode support tube for high pressure discharge lamp
US6262535A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 12, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jul 17, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 12, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01J61/366
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The high pressure lamp has a bulb (2) to which a neck (4, 4a, 4b) is joined. The transition region (6) between the bulb and the neck is conical. A support tube (5, 20, 25) surrounds a holding rod (10) for an electrode (11) within the bulb. The support tube is melt-connected to the neck, and conical with an inner end of the support tube having an outer diameter which is smaller than the outer diameter of the outer end of the support tube. The neck, likewise, is conical, and forms a transition region to the bulb, which is free from the support tube, so that the support tube is recessed within the transition region. This recess is between 3 and 25 mm and corresponds, at the most, to twice the outer diameter of the support tube at its inner end. The ratio of the outer diameter of the outer, or remote, end of the support tube (5, 20, 25) and the outer diameter of the inner, or proximate, end of the support tube is between 1.1 and 2.5.
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