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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1982
Robert G Frey, Strongsville, OH (US);
Charles I McVey, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An improved high pressure sodium vapor lamp is described having resistance heater means contained within a tubular light-transmitting ceramic envelope that further contains a reservoir of sodium-mercury amalgam in excess of the quantity vaporized during lamp operation and which are supplied by electric current other than the lamp current responsive to a rise in the lamp operating voltage to reduce the quantity of amalgam being vaporized during lamp operation to help maintain said lamp operation at a relatively constant voltage. In a preferred embodiment, said resistance heater means comprises a refractory metal coil wound around the tungsten shank at one thermionic electrode and electrically insulated therefrom, with said thermionic electrode including a tubular metal inlead serving as the amalgam reservoir, and with the electric current being supplied at a lower value to said refractory metal coil than being supplied to said thermionic electrode.