Electric discharge devices
USRE30831E · kind E · reissue
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 1, 1978 |
| Grant date | Dec 22, 1981 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 1, 1998 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
The inclusion of an alkali metal halide in the gas fill of a high pressure mercury and aluminium halide discharge lamp improves the color appearance of the lamp; notably by lowering the color temperature, while maintaining or even increasing the efficacy and stability of the discharge. Preferred contents are 10 to 30 mg cm.sup.-3 mercury, 5 to 100 .mu.mol cm.sup.-3 aluminium halide and 0.5 to 150 .mu.mol cm.sup.3 alkali metal halide, with the molar ratio of alkali metal halide to aluminium halide in the range 0.1 to 1.5 and the total number of aluminium and alkali metal atoms preferably greater than the total number of halogen atoms.
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