U.S. Philips Corporation

Egbertus J Maassen

Franciscus A Van Meel

Leonard C Eijkelenboom

Frederik J De Jong

The electric reflector lamp has a reflector body with a light-beam shaping surface which comprises a body of revolution of a branch of a parabola which has been tilted towards the optical axis of the light-beam shaping surface. The light-beam shaping surface has superimposed plane axial lanes of which the number in a first zone remote from the light emission window is half that in a second zone adjacent said window. The axial lanes give the light-beam shaping surface cross-sections which are regular polygons. A light source is positioned on the optical axis, while the focus is inside this light source. The lamp has a universal burning position, a good mixing of the generated light, and a comparatively high luminous flux in the beam.

Electric reflector lamp

The electric lamp has a lamp vessel (1) having an axis of symmetry (2) and a window (9). The lamp vessel has a first mirrored paraboloidal wall portion (5) remote from the window and a second mirrored wall portion (7) near the window. The second portion (7) is curved according to a branch (15) of a parabola, the axis (16) of which includes a sharp angle .alpha. with the axis (2) of the lamp vessel and the focus (8) of which coincides there with. The focus (8) is spaced from the focus (6) of the first wall portion (5). A cylindrical light source (10) is axially disposed in the lamp vessel (1) coincident with said foci (6,8). The lamp generates a wide beam and nevertheless has sizes which are normal for reflector lamps.

The luminaire comprises a cup-shaped reflector having facets which are curved continuously and extend from the light emanating aperture of the reflector towards the reflector axis. The facets of the reflector, in planes transverse to the reflector axis, are straight and constitute a regular polygon. The luminaire further comprises a circumferential light-absorbing collar which has a portion which narrows from the reflector edge in a stepwise manner. The luminaire together with an axially accommodated light source provides a wide, homogeneous, sharply bounded beam and at small angles with the axis. It is no longer observable as a source of light.

Luminaire having a light absorbing collar

Luminaire provided with a bowl-shaped reflector for an elongated light-emitting part of a light source to be arranged substantially on the principal axis of said reflector. The reflector has a reflecting surface composed of elongated facets whose longitudinal sides extend from adjacent the center to the peripheral edge of the reflector. The facets are concavely curved in a cross-section comprising the principal axis and are straight in a plane at right angles to the peripheral axis and constitute a regular polygon, the axis of symmetry of a facet extending in accordance with a curve approaching the shape of a parabola.

Luminaire having a faceted reflecting surface

A reflector whose reflecting surface is formed as a portion of a solid of revolution, the generatrix of the solid of revolution having a plurality of staggered parabolic segments, the transition portions located between the segments changing smoothly into the segments and being of such a shape that in use in the reflector, of a light source, the reflected light beam has a comparatively large width and that the object to be illuminated is illuminated uniformly.

Reflector

A color analyzer for determining the exposure time required for printing color photographs by an enlarger comprising a measuring unit having three photoelectric cells. The analyzer is further provided with a control unit being electrically connected to the measuring unit and having an electric circuit for determining the exposure time. According to the present invention, the characteristic values of the color components, blue, green and red are measured by a respective photoelectric cell for a test print as electric signals generated by the cells at voltages of S.sub.BO, S.sub.GO, and S.sub.RO at the associated exposure time t.sub.o. These values are stored in a memory and the exposure time t of an arbitrary picture is determined with the aid of measured signals S.sub.B, S.sub.G and S.sub.R for the components blue, green, and red. This determination is computed by way of the formula:

Color analyzer

A single light source illuminates an additive filter holder having three color filters of equal area arranged beside each other in a plane. Two filters are rectangular and lie within a rectangular whose diagonal defines a circle. The third filter has identical halves to opposite sides of the rectangular major sides within the circle. Color is adjusted by sliding screens over the filters.

Tri-color additive color printing head and enlarger

An electronic flash unit having a thin-walled housing (2) in which is accommodated a reflector (3) with a discharge flash lamp (4) and which on the light-emanating side is provided with a photosensitive cell (6) for measuring a quantity of light reflected from an object to be photographed, which cell switches off the discharge flash lamp (4) by means of an electric circuit after measurement of a light dose. According to the invention, the wall of the housing (2) is provided with means, such as an upright edge (7), for receiving an end of a light-conducting fiber cable (9), which end is arranged in front of the photosensitive cell.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Egbertus J Maassen