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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1995
Jozsef Fulop, Thokoly, HU;
Istvan Wursching, Erzsebet, HU;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The discharge lamp has a discharge tube filled with a fill gas and sealed in a gas-tight manner and a cap part made to be suitable for connection to a socket. This cap part has a housing made by a shell and a closing member fixed thereto, and electrical contact components. The shell has openings for receiving the end portions of the discharge tube legs into the housing and the shell is made to be suitable for supporting the discharge tube mechanically. The electrical contact components are embedded in the housing and connected in the inner space of the housing to the electrodes of the discharge lamp and protrude from the cap part. The cap part contains mechanical support component(s) for fixing the discharge lamp in the socket. The mechanical support component(s) forms (form) a part of the shell and the portions of the electrical contact components protruding from the cap part are placed in an outwardly open indentation defined by an indented plate portion of a bordering plate of the cap part, preferably of the base plate of the closing member.