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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2013
Lucidity Lights, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
John R. Goscha, Boston, MA (US);
Walter Peter Lapatovich, Boxford, MA (US);
David Alan Goodman, Amesbury, MA (US);
David Wentzel, Eliot, ME (US);
Felix I. Alexandrov, Bedford, MA (US);
Lucidity Lights, Inc., Charlestown, MA (US);
Abstract
An induction RF fluorescent lamp having a bulbous vitreous portion of the induction RF fluorescent light bulb including a lamp envelope filled with a working gas mixture. The lamp includes a power coupler and an electronic ballast. A first metallic structure is attached to a cavity wall and extends outwardly radially therefrom and within the lamp envelope outside a re-entrant cavity including mercury. The first metallic structure is mounted within the lamp envelope and adapted to absorb power from the electric field and induce discharge during a turn-on phase of the induction RF fluorescent lamp in a manner sufficient to rapidly heat and vaporize the mercury and promote rapid luminous development during the turn-on phase of the induction RF fluorescent lamp.