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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1990
James T Dakin, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Mark E Duffy, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Raymond A Heindl, Euclid, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
This electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp comprises a light-transmissive arc tube having spaced wall portions of dielectric material and a first gaseous fill within the arc tube. An excitation coil about the arc tube is energizable with RF current effective to develop a toroidal arc discharge in the first gaseous fill upon a dielectric breakdown of the fill. A starting container is joined to the arc tube and has an end wall constituted by one of arc-tube wall portions. A second gaseous fill within the starting container has a dielectric strength lower than that of the first gaseous fill. For initiating toroidal arc discharge, we provide an arrangement for producing a dielectric breakdown of the gaseous fill within the starting container that develops into an electric discharge that changes the potential at end wall in such a manner as to cause a dielectric breakdown of first gaseous fill.