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Lamp and lamp package made of functionally gradient material

US6597114B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 13, 2000
Grant dateJul 22, 2003
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Expiry dateJun 13, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01K1/40
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A lamp seal (10, 30) of functionally gradient seal material and a lead bar (13, 32) that is fixed to the seal piece (11, 31), which seal piece is formed an inorganic layer with insulative properties and a number of mixed layers that are each mixtures of conductive inorganic materials and insulative inorganic materials, such that the proportion of conductive inorganic materials increases gradually in the direction of layering. A hole is formed extending in the direction of layering such that the lead bar can be fixed into the seal material with a sleeve-shaped metallic part made of a high-melting-point metal separating the outer periphery of the lead bar from the seal material. A lamp made with an air-tight seal formed of that lamp seal of functionally gradient material.

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