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Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:

Kenji Kikuchi, Aizuwakamatsu, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 2/300 ; H01K 1/58 ; H01K 3/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 2/300 ; H01K 1/58 ; H01K 3/22 ;
Abstract

Irradiation lamps of an ultraviolet-light irradiation apparatus are uniformly cooled to achieve an appropriate temperature of the walls of the lamps and the ultraviolet light emitted from the lamps is efficiently reflected toward an object to be irradiated so that the ultraviolet light is efficiently irradiated onto the object to be irradiated. A plurality of low-pressure mercury lamps are arranged in parallel. A reflective mirror is arranged above the low-pressure mercury lamps so as to reflect the ultraviolet light emitted by the low-pressure mercury lamps. An exhaust passage defined by the reflective mirror suctions air around the low-pressure mercury lamps and exhausts the suctioned air to outside. The reflective mirror has a plurality of openings arranged along a longitudinal direction of the low-pressure mercury lamps, and a part of the openings has a size different from a size of other parts of the openings.


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