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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2008
Ceferino Garcia, Juarez Chihuahua, MX;
Ceferino Garcia, Juarez Chihuahua, MX;
OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc., Danvers, MA (US);
Abstract
A lamp (), which can be used in rapid thermal processing (RTP), has a lamp envelope () arrayed along a longitudinal axis () and has a top () and a bottom (). A first coiled-coil filament () having a first lead-in () and a second coiled-coil filament () having a second lead-in (), are parallelly arrayed to each other and to the longitudinal axis () within the envelope (). A serial connector () joins the first and second filaments; and an electrically insulating support () is positioned near the bottom () of the lamp envelope (). The first lead-in (), the second lead-in () and at least a portion () of the serial connector () are sealed within the insulating supportwhereby the first and second lead-ins () and the at least a portion () of the serial connector () provide the only support for the first and second filaments (). In a preferred embodiment, the first and second filaments () have a wire diameter twice the diameter of a nominal CC6 filament.