Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kenji Ohkubo

Masami Takagi

Shinichi Tsunekawa

A low pressure gas discharge lamp includes a bulb with a pair of closed ends, and a pair of bases attached to the ends of the bulb, respectively. Each base has a cylindrical base body into which the end of bulb is inserted, and a pair of receiving terminals electrically connected to an electrode in the bulb and protruding from the base body in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the bulb. Each terminal has a pair of mutually parallel flat faces and is secured to the base body such that these flat faces are located on planes perpendicular to the axis of the bulb, and a part of at least one flat face is in contact with a bottom wall of the base body.

Low pressure discharge lamp with flat-plate terminal

A low-pressure discharge lamp includes a bulb and a pair of bases attached to the end portions of the bulb, respectively. Each base has a base body fixed to the end of the bulb and a pair of terminals attached to the periphery of the base body. The terminals have contact portions which project from the periphery of the base body and include contact surfaces extending parallel to the axis of the bulb and facing the same direction. The contact surfaces are located so as to contact a common plane.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Kenji Ohkubo