U.S. Philips Corporation

Antonius Johannes Van Stratum

Tjepke Hendrik Ekkelboom

Pieter Zalm

Auke G Van Der Kooi

Johannes Reinier Blatter

Johan B Van Overveld

Johannes Gerardus Van Os

Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp having in the discharge vessel a vapor pressure-controlling mercury amalgam which is secured to the inner surface of a wall of a container which is provided with an opening to the discharge vessel. Such securing reduces the risk that small portions of the amalgam might become dislodged by vibration or shock and escape from the container into the discharge vessel. The amalgam is secured to the container wall by fusion thereto by means of an intermediate 'wetting' agent formed by a thin layer of nickel.

Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp

A dispenser cathode comprising a porous metal body which has an emissive surface and the pores of which contain one or more compounds for dispensing at least barium and scandium to the emissive surface, which compounds are composed of at least barium oxide, scandium oxide and aluminium oxide, in which the quantity of scandium oxide is less than 10% by weight, and preferably 3% by weight, of the overall quantity of the dispensing compound (s), has substantially the same good emissive properties as cathodes in which the dispensing compound comprises 5.5% by weight of scandium oxide and 18% by weight of yttrium oxide (Y.sub.2 O.sub.3), or barium scandate as a dispensing compound.

Barium-aluminum-scandate dispenser cathode

Electrodes for a discharge lamp having a semispherical fused body to produce a very stable arc. The electrodes can be manufactured inter alia by compressing a mixture of tungsten powder, metal carbide powder and a binder to a moulding, sintering the moulding, and fusing it then at least partly in a discharge arc, the sintered moulding serving as one of the electrodes.

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