Philips Electronics North America Corporation

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

U.S. Philips Corporation

Thomas W Morris

Joseph E Canale

Henrikus J Pragt

Bart Van Der Leeuw

Kevin S Dombrowski

Albert E Kowal

A metal halide lamp includes an arc tube and a surrounding tubular quartz sleeve between a wire frame. The wire frame is formed from a pair of substantially parallel wire frame members and a top section where the two frame members meet. The two frame members are mounted to a glass stem containing current supply leads. The sleeve is provided with two pairs of diametrically opposed apertures, each pair of apertures receiving an elongate wire U-clip which engages a pinched end of the arc tube inside the sleeve and the frame members outside the sleeve. A disk having a slot is inserted over a top section of the wire frame through the slot.

Dome shield for protected metal halide lamps

The high pressure discharge lamp has a quartz glass lamp vessel having two opposite pinch seals. The pinch seals have major faces which are tapering from an end face towards the discharge space and have raised ridges along their axial edges. The height of the ridges diminishes towards the end faces. The lamp vessel can be obtained from a cylindrical tube by pinching without prior processing.

High pressure discharge lamp having pirch seals

A high pressure discharge lamp having a discharge vessel with opposing end chambers includes discharge electrodes each consisting of an open elongate filament of refractory metal wire having a plurality of succesive coil turns extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of the discharge vessel. The filament electrodes are dimensioned so that the discharge arc which terminates thereon is sufficiently retracted into the end chamber of the discharge vessel so that the fill constituents condense on a region of the discharge vessel which is primarily axially between the filament electrodes. In a favorable embodiment, the lamp is a metal halide lamp in which the electrode and the discharge sustaining fill is free of thoria and its compounds.

High pressure discharge lamp having filament electrodes

The electric discharge lamp has a discharge vessel, which is mounted in an outer bulb. A containment shield surrounds the discharge vessel and includes a glass sleeve and a helically coiled wire about the sleeve. Electrically isolated clamping leads extending from the seals axially secure the glass sleeve about the discharge vessel so that it is electrically isolated. The wire is fixed around the sleeve in an electrically floating manner, e.g. by clamping fit and/or by bent end portions secured over the ends of the glass sleeve. The construction of the lamp is simple and effective to protect the outer bulb from being damaged by an explosion of the lamp vessel and to prevent accelerated sodium depletion from the discharge vessel.

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Thomas W Morris