Patent Treuhand Gesellschaft Fur Elektrische Gluhlampen Mbh

Karl Stadler

Roland Stark

Axel Bunk

Ruediger Klam

Manfred Gaugel

Michael Brinkhoff

Gottfried Eichelbronner

Rupert Muhlberger

Rupert Muehlberger

Rudiger Klam

Rainer Haake

To permit ready insertion of a holding frame for a filament into an essentially tubular bulb, particularly a halogen incandescent lamp bulb made of quartz glass or hard glass, the frame has two legs extending along the wall of the bulb, connected by a holding portion to hold the filament at the end remote from the current supply leads to the filament, one of the legs of the frame is shorter than the other, for example only about one-third the length of the bulb. The longer leg of the frame can be pinch-sealed in a pinch seal closing off the bulb. The holding portion, which is intermediate the two legs, is preferably U-shaped to form a hook into which the filament can be hooked; or, particularly if the legs of the U are close together, about which the filament can be wound.

Electric lamp with a holding frame for a lamp filament

To support a filament, or filament structure, in a halogen incandescent l, which may have a V or U filament, a straight filament, or be of the lumiline type, support ribs are placed within the lamp, which support ribs are formed from the lamp bulb material itself, by deforming the lamp bulb after local softening, for example by punches or by applying a vacuum, to provide interiorly extending, essentially tubular ribs. The tubular ribs may have circular or oval cross section, and can be placed to engage the filament to, for example, pinch the filament therebetween. In the pinching regions, the filament preferably is straight or only single-coiled and may be supported by a core pin.

Halogen incandescent lamp, particularly for operation from power

To provide a mount for a halogen incandescent lamp, extending longitudinally within an elongated, for example essentially cylindrical bulb (2), the filament, preferably, is a coiled-coil filament and the mount includes a first lead-in conductor (8) which extends inwardly of the bulb and, adjacent the remote end of the bulb, is bent over in inverted V or arch shape, towards the lamp axis, and then downwardly to define an essentially arch or roof shaped construction, the second leg (15) of the bent filament being bent inwardly 180.degree. towards the lamp axis, and then downwardly towards the near end, with respect to the base, of the lamp bulb, for retention of the remote end of the filament. All legs and bent portions of the longitudinal conductor are located in a common plane, the essentially V or arch-shaped bent-over region approximately spanning the inner diameter of the bulb, but being clear of the inner walls thereof. By locating all the elements in a single plane, the construction is simplified and localized thermal stresses by contact of the lead-in wires or elements close to the hot filament against the quartz glass are avoided.

Halogen cycle incandescent lamp structure

To permit easy attachment of a coiled filament, and especially a coiled-c or double-twist filament, to the current supply leads within a lamp bulb, in which the current supply leads are made of tungsten, each current supply lead is flattened to form a plate-like flattened surface in the vicinity of the terminal end of the current supply lead. The secondary coiling of a coiled-coil filament--or the single coil of a single-coiled filament--is then slipped over the end portion of the lead-in to extend over and about the flattened portion and with a few turns adjacent the flattened portion and therebeyond on the end portion (15) of the current lead-in, thereby retaining the end portion in position due to the additional width of the flattened portion while providing a reliable electrical contact. The greatest width of the flattened portion is slightly greater than the inner diameter of the secondary coiling of the filament (13), for example about 5% to 20% wider.

Halogen incandescent lamp with high reliability filament connection, and

To eliminate the necessity for supervising the composition of a fill being ntroduced to a halogen incandescent lamp bulb, so that the proportion of halogen containing additive and inert gas will be at a predetermined ratio, by spectroscropic and other similar means, the halogen containing additive (8) is placed, in solid or liquid phase, in a mixing vessel at a temperature (T.sub.1) which is in excess of a temperature (T.sub.2) which is necessary to result in the vapor pressure to enrich the inert gas at the predetermined quantity. The inert gas is conducted into the vessel and thereby excessively enriched. The excessively enriched inert gas is passed through a condenser, the temperature of which is accurately controlled to the temperature (T.sub.2) to thereby condense out the excess halogen additive, so that the mixture then will have the desired relationship of halogen containing additive and inert gas; this mixture is then being filled into the lamp. If the halogen is present in form of a carbon containing compound, or a hydrocarbon compound, it is conducted first over a cracking unit (15), for example quartz granules heated to 900.degree. C., to remove any carbon. Composite fill mixtures of, preferably, the same inert gas such as argon, with different halogen additives, such as bromine or iodine, can be mixed in a blender (17) of constant flow throughput.

Method to introduce a fill gas mixture into an electric light bulb,

To prevent the occurrence of brittle weld junctions upon joining thin intal lead-in wires (3a, 3a') to thicker connecting pin wires (3b, 3b'), an intermediate element of nickel (4) is positioned between the thinner and thicker wire parts, the nickel joining easily with the two parts of the molybdenum wires. The junction molybdenum-nickel-molybdenum, or tungsten-nickel-tungsten in case tungsten wires are used, is preferably located within the region of the press (5) of the lamp (1). In contrast to direct welding of molybdenum to molybdenum, or tungsten to tungsten, the weld does not decay.

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