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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Joseph E. Canale, Painted Post, NY (US);
Stephen L. Cooch, Big Flats, NY (US);
William L. Haynes, Painted Post, NY (US);
Clayton L. Tuttle, Ii, Corning, NY (US);
Joseph E. Canale, Painted Post, NY (US);
Stephen L. Cooch, Big Flats, NY (US);
William L. Haynes, Painted Post, NY (US);
Clayton L. Tuttle, II, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for sealing and affixing a component assembly for an electrical lighting device to a glass lamp envelope. The assembly used in the process comprises the component, such as an electrode lead wire and a solder glass perform. The process is useful, for example, in hermetically sealing and affixing lamp components, such as electrical lead wires and exhaust tubulation, to a low pressure fluorescent discharge lamp envelope having phosphor coating already applied thereto. The present invention is particularly suitable for lamp envelope made of borosilicate glass having a CTE from 0 to 300° C. in the range of 30–45×10° C..