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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2006
Koji Matsushita, Hamamatsu, JP;
Kazuo Ueno, Hamamatsu, JP;
Kouzou Adachi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K. K., Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a light source apparatus with a structure that enables the brightness of a gas discharge tube to be stabilized and facilitates gas discharge tube maintenance work. The light source apparatus has a gas discharge tube, a lamp container housing the gas discharge tube, and a base on which the lamp container is fixed. The gas discharge tube is fixed via a heat insulating member to a portion of an outer shell of the lamp container, and the heat insulating member functions to reduce heat transfer between the lamp container and the gas discharge tube to reduce the influence of temperature change, outside the lamp container, on the gas discharge tube. The lamp container also has an attachment/detachment structure for enabling attachment and detachment of the portion of the outer shell on which the gas discharge tube is fixed via the insulating member, with respect to the remaining portion of the outer shell, and whereby the attachment/detachment structure facilitates gas discharge tube maintenance work.