General Electric Company

Luana E Lorio

Bernard Patrick Bewlay

Timothy John Sommerer

James Scott Vartuli

James Anthony Brewer

Anteneh Kebbede

Sylvia M DeCarr

Sylvain S Coulombe

A system and method for hermetically sealing a lamp. Certain embodiments of the lamp have an arc envelope having an open end and, also, an end structure diffusion bonded to the arc envelope at the open end. The end structure also has a dosing passageway extending into the arc envelope. In other embodiments, a lighting device is provided with an end structure adapted to close an open end of an arc envelope, and a dosing tube diffusion bonded to the end structure. Another embodiment of the lighting device has an arc envelope and an end structure diffusion bonded to an open end of the arc envelope.

Hermetical lamp sealing techniques and lamp having uniquely sealed components

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