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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1990
Hisashi Honda, Yokohama, JP;
Katsuhide Misono, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fluorescent lamp device comprises an oblate section type fluorescent lamp having an oblate cross section and provided with a luminous surface illuminating in one direction and with a back plate and a lighting circuit means attached to the back plate and adapted to light the fluorescent lamp. The fluorescent lamp is electrically connected to and integrally assembled with the lighting means including the lighting circuit board by the bendable leads and the terminal pieces capable of having various shapes. In addition, a fluorescent lamp device comprises a fluorescent lamp body which includes a front plate, a back plate and a spacer which is provided between the front plate and the back plate and which defines the oblate sectioned bulb of the fluorescent lamp. The bulb airtightly containing at least a pair of cold cathodes and rare gases, the flourescent lamp device being so designed that the discharge current density, which is the ratio of the discharge current between the pair of cold cathodes to the area of the oblate section of the bulb, is 0.30 mA/mm.sup.2 or less and that the flatness F, which is the ratio of the length in the longitudinal direction of the oblate section of the bulb to the length in the lateral direction of the same, and the pressure P (torr) of the rare gases satisfy at least one of the following inequalities (1) and (2):