U.S. Philips Corporation

Wilhelmus A Martens

Johannes J Willems

Maarten W Steinmann

Jacobus J Boonekamp

Wilhelmus C Claassen

The Electric lamp has a lamp vessel in which an electric element is accommodated, connected to current conductors which emanate from the lamp vessel. At least one of the current conductors has a length portion which is a solidified melt and in the area of which portion the current conductor has a kink. As a result of the conductor having a kink the electric element is aligned in the lamp vessel. The lamp can be obtained by melting the current conductor, e.g. by means of a laser, in the finished lamp.

Electric lamp having a current conductor with a kinked longitudinal

The electric lamp has a getter capable of binding hydrogen, oxygen and stoichiometrically water at a comparatively low temperature. The getter comprises Pd as a first metal, chemically bound to a second metal from the group Zr and Y, the mol. % of the first metal in the getter lying between 0.4 and 15. The getter further comprises chemically bound oxygen, mole 0/mole second metal being 0.02-1.0. The particle size is .ltoreq.40 .mu.m.

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Wilhelmus A Martens