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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
George Oiye, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joseph R Caruso, San Martin, CA (US);
Assignee:
ILC Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
313631 ; 313623 ; 313632 ;
Abstract
An arc lamp comprises an electrode assembly with O-ring seals that seal in xenon gas within a glass tube envelope and shaped electrode that, together with a contoured tube geometry inside the glass tube envelope near the electrode, will aerodynamically redirect the supersonic forces of gas ignition to reduce the mechanical impact pulses that would otherwise ultimately work the electrode assembly out of the end of the glass the envelope.