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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1991
Filed:
May. 04, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Haraeus Holding GmbH, Hanau am Main, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 83 ; 372 86 ; 372 87 ;
Abstract
A discharge device, especially for a gas laser, has a discharge chamber through which a gas flows at high velocity and the gas discharge burns as a steady-field discharge between an anode and a cathode lying opposite the anode as the main electrodes extending transversely of the gas flow. To obtain a high ionization rate with a low alternating-current power consumption, while at the same time pre-ionizing the entire volume of incoming gas present between the cathode and anode, at least two pre-ionizing electrodes are present, one of which is in front of the cathode and the other in front of the anode in the direction of flow, and the pre-ionizing electrodes are out of phase with one another.