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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1999
Roy D. Roberts, Hayward, CA (US);
EG&G ILC Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An improved arc lamp with a ceramic body, an anode supported by a base, and a cathode suspended by a strut system opposite to the anode, and having an inside volume filled with xenon gas. The improvements include a groove in the ceramic body such that an angled area is presented to a head area of the anode that reduces heat coupling by radiation. A neck in the anode provides for a thermal choking such that a head portion of the anode will elevate in temperature during operation. A cavity is relieved in the base and all around the anode to provide a fixed means for managing the temperature of a head portion of the anode during operation. A stem portion of the cathode has a reduced diameter for attachment to the strut system and this provides reduced optical blockage. A base for the anode has a longer length than its diameter for improved heat transfer to an anode heatsink. A braze-ring recess is machined in an inner diameter of the base to help prevent a contamination of the surface of the anode facing the cathode with any braze material during manufacturing. A chamfer is cut in each of three legs in the strut system to reduce the tendency for electricity to arc-over to a reflector that surrounds the anode. A cathode heatsink surrounds a window sleeve supporting a lens and has an angled inside face for reducing lamp-thermal gradients. A waist-area heatsink is clamped-on the ceramic body in the gap on an outside surface between an anode heatsink and a cathode heatsink with enough clearance provided so that inter-heatsink electrical arcing does not occur.