Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems – Combined load device or load device temperature modifying... – Electric switch inside evacuated or gas filled envelope
Patent
1983-08-05
1985-07-09
Massie, Jerome
Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
Combined load device or load device temperature modifying...
Electric switch inside evacuated or gas filled envelope
315104, 315106, 337 24, 337 25, 337 27, 337110, 337159, H01J 744, H05B 4106
Patent
active
045284792
ABSTRACT:
A circuit breaker for a rapid-start fluorescent lamp includes a pair of electrical conductors sealed into a glass bottle, a bimetal switch within the bottle having one end affixed and the other end contacting the pair of electrical conductors and a meltable by-pass element shunting the pair of electrical conductors and formed of a material having a relatively high cold resistivity and a low temperature coefficient of resistance.
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Bonazoli Robert P.
Shaffer John W.
Buffton Thomas H.
GTE Products Corporation
Massie Jerome
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