Matsushita Electronics Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masashi Sangen

Takeshi Matsumura

Naoyuki Nakamura

Shiro Iida

Shuuzou Kanayama

Toshiyoshi Oga

Hidehito Kawahara

Ikuhiro Okuno

Masaru Yamaguchi

This invention provides a compact, efficient and well-designed circular fluorescent lamp with high output power. The circular fluorescent lamp has less non-luminant region and good characteristics of luminous intensity distribution, and keeps high level of lamp lumen output. Circular arc tubes are disposed concentrically on the same plane. Electrodes are attached to the tube-end parts of the one side of the circular arc tubes respectively, and the other tube-end parts of non-electrode side are sealed. The circular arc tubes are joined each other near the tube-end parts of the non-electrode side with a bridge-jointed portion, so that a discharge path is formed between the electrodes inside the arc tubes. The tube outer diameter of the circular arc tubes is 14 mm, the circle outer diameter of the outer circular arc tube is 150 mm, and the circle inner diameter of the inner arc tube is 90 mm. The distance measured along the center line of the tube from the point corresponding radially to the end part of the bridge-jointed portion to the sealed tube-end part of the outer circular arc tube is 11 mm, and the distance measured along the center line of the tube from the point corresponding radially to the end part of the bridge-jointed portion to the sealed tube-end part of the inner circular arc tube is 6 mm.

Circular fluorescent lamp

Fluorescent lamp

Compact self-ballasted fluorescent lamp

A fluorescent lamp device with an incandescent bulb type base cap. The fluorescent lamp device has a luminous tube unit and a case with one end supporting the luminous tube unit, and the other end has an outwardly projecting portion. A ballast is provided in the case, and a base cap is adapted to be rotatably fitted to the projecting portion of the case. The outer periphery of the projecting portion of the case has an engagement groove formed in it and a stopper portion which is formed in the axial direction of the case. An engagement portion, a guide groove and a rotation limiting groove having a rotation stopper portion are successively provided for the inner surface at one end of the base cap disposed in that order starting from the one end of the base cap. By fitting the engagement portion of the base cap in the engagement groove of the case, fitting one end of the projecting portion of the case in the guide groove of the base cap, fitting the stopper portion of the base cap in the rotation limiting groove of the base cap, and rotating the stopper portion so that it is fitted in the rotation limiting groove, the luminous tube unit and the case can be rotatably fitted to the base cap, and rotation of the stopper portion can be prevented by the rotation stopper portion.

Fluorescent lamp device with incandescent bulb type base cap

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Hyogo, Japan

Masashi Sangen