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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:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
May. 04, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electronics Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
315118 ; 315248 ; 315 3951 ; 315344 ; 362373 ; 362351 ; 313 35 ;
Abstract
A microwave-excited discharge lamp apparatus of the present invention has a translucent blow guide 6 arranged around a microwave-excited discharge lamp 4. Thereby, even when the microwave-excited discharge lamp 4 is reduced in size, the microwave-excited discharge lamp 4 can be cooled efficiently without complicating or increasing the size of the apparatus.