Electric lamp and discharge devices – With gas or vapor – Envelope composition
Patent
1979-04-19
1984-11-06
Moore, David K.
Electric lamp and discharge devices
With gas or vapor
Envelope composition
H01J 6330
Patent
active
044814437
ABSTRACT:
A short-arc discharge lamp having tungsten electrodes, tungsten electrode pins, and a sealed vacuum-tight lamp envelope filled with a rare gas. Hitherto the electrode pins have been sealed into neck-shaped portions of the envelope using graded seals. In a lamp according to the invention, the electrode pins extend through neck-shaped portions of the envelope. In the vicinity of the respective envelope to electrode pin seal, the electrode pin bears a local glass coating. An annular glass bead-shaped member is sealed to this glass coating and the neck-shaped portion is sealed to at least part of the length (in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the electrode pin) of the bead-shaped member. The glass coating and the bead-shaped member each have a coefficient of thermal expansion with in the range from 11 to 17.times.10.sup.-7 per deg C.
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Moore David K.
Smith Robert S.
U.S. Philips Corporation
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