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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2014
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Fangming Du, Northfield, OH (US);
Brett R. Bradley, Maple Heights, OH (US);
William Erwin Cohen, Solon, OH (US);
Nathaniel Jon Farkas, North Ridgeville, OH (US);
Clark David Nelson, East Cleveland, OH (US);
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 1/62 (2006.01); H01J 63/04 (2006.01); H01J 61/44 (2006.01); C09K 11/71 (2006.01); C09K 11/77 (2006.01); C09K 11/76 (2006.01); H01J 61/35 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 61/44 (2013.01); C09K 11/71 (2013.01); C09K 11/76 (2013.01); C09K 11/7734 (2013.01); H01J 61/35 (2013.01);
Abstract
A coating system for a fluorescent lamp, and fluorescent lamps provided therewith. The coating system includes a phosphor-containing coating containing a mixture of phosphors that contain less than 10% weight rare earth phosphors. The phosphor-containing coating emits visible light having a color rendering index of at least 87 when excited by UV radiation.