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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188664 | Compact high intensity discharge lamp with textured outer envelope A compact mercury-free high intensity discharge (HID) lamp particularly suitable for automotive headlamp application has a pair of spaced and opposing electrodes sealed in a transparent enclosure defining an arc chamber. An outer transparent envelope has a first and... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8183781 | Fluorescent lamp with adjustable color temperature A fluorescent lamp includes at least two lighting elements, which emit lights with different color temperatures. In addition, the lighting illuminations of the lighting elements can be controlled by independent driving devices. Thus, the user can adjust the color te... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8115391 | Hermetic envelope and image display apparatus using the same A hermetic envelope includes a first plate, a second plate, and a frame provided between the first plate and the second plate to form an interior space. A first bonding part is provided between the frame and the first plate to bond the frame and the first plate to e... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106589 | Direct-current high voltage discharge bulb for vehicle lamp A direct-current high-voltage discharge bulb includes a ceramic arc tube body having a discharge emission chamber at a middle portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, a light-emitting substance which is sealed inside the discharge emission chamber together with ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8049425 | Gas-filled shroud to provide cooler arctube A lamp is provided having an arctube having a light-transmitting envelope. The arctube is surrounded by a gaseous medium confined by a containment envelope such as a hermetic shroud. The gaseous medium is preferably He or H2 or Ne or another gas whose the... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044591 | Fluorescent lamp and lighting unit A fluorescent lamp can be configured to prevent a decrease in luminescent efficiency when located in a high temperature room. The fluorescent lamp can include a couple of stems each including an emitter electrode located opposite to each other at each end of a tube,... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8030847 | Low power discharge lamp with high efficacy In order to achieve a discharge lamp suited to operate under reduced nominal power of e.g. 20-30 W, a lamp is proposed with two electrodes (24) arranged at a distance in a discharge vessel (20, 120) for generating an arc discharge. The discharge vessel... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018157 | Lamp with a base at one end Various embodiments provide an electric high-pressure lamp with a base at one end, with a wattage of at most 100 W and with a discharge vessel which is sealed in a vacuum-tight manner, said discharge vessel being surrounded by an inner bulb and furthermore by an out... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8004195 | Discharge bulb for vehicle A discharge bulb and an arc tube are provided. The discharge bulb includes an arc tube main body having a discharge arc chamber, in which two discharge electrodes are disposed to oppose to each other; a tube portion disposed at each end portion of the arc tube main ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999476 | Plasma display sealing structure There is provided a plasma display panel in which a front plate and a rear plate are disposed opposite to each other, a side of a tubular exhaust pipe is disposed in the vicinity of a fine hole provided in the rear plate using a tablet serving as sealant formed of f... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999477 | Deuterium lamp The present invention relates to a deuterium lamp with a structure to enable high-accuracy positioning with respect to a mounting object such as an analyzer. The deuterium lamp comprises a sealed container in which a light-emitting portion to emit a discharge light ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982401 | Xenon lamps A xenon short arc lamp which has a middle section with a length to diameter ratio greater than 1.6 and which is directly interchangeable with a xenon short arc lamp of the same wattage in a lamphouse without modifying the lamphouse. ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982400 | Starting aid for HID lamp A high-intensity discharge lamp includes a discharge vessel made of an insulator, and a cathode and anode. A V-shaped gap is provided between the anode and a first region of the vessel directly adjacent to where the anode separates from an interior surface of the ve... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973479 | Discharge lamp A discharge lamp for a vehicle is provided with a ceramic luminous tube, a front side electrode and a rear side electrode held by the ceramic luminous tube, a first lead wire connected to the front side electrode, a second lead wire connected to the rear side electr... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973480 | High-pressure discharge lamp having an outer envelope arranged around a discharge vessel A high-pressure discharge lamp has an outer envelope (1) in which a discharge vessel (11) is arranged. The discharge vessel encloses a discharge space (13) with an ionizable filling. The discharge vessel has two mutually opposed neck-shaped port... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965042 | Metal halide lamp and lighting apparatus using the same A metal halide lamp according to the present invention includes: an outer tube 2; an inner tube 3 that is provided in the outer tube 2, has a sealing portion 10 in at least one end portion, and is made of quartz glass; an inner tube 3 | 06/21/2011 |
| 7952285 | Metal halide lamp with cerium oxide seal A metal halide lamp includes a ceramic discharge vessel and two electrodes. The discharge vessel encloses a discharge volume containing an ionizable gas filling including at least a metal halide, two current lead-through conductors connected to the respective electr... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7915826 | Electric lamp with inner assembly and outer bulb and method for manufacturing An electric lamp comprises an inner assembly including a light source and a control gear circuit. An outer envelope encloses the light source and at least a part of the control gear and has a predetermined wall thickness and an end portion. The outer envelope is com... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911144 | Metal halide lamp and vehicle headlamp The invention relates to a metal halide lamp for a vehicle headlamp comprising a cylindrically-shaped discharge vessel (23) having a ceramic wall which encloses a discharge space comprising Xe and ionizable filling, and a cylindrically-shaped outer bulb (2... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7876052 | Gas discharge lamp comprising a helicoid discharge tube and an inner tube piece The invention relates to a novel compact fluorescent lamp with a helical discharge tube 2 and a tube piece 8 which is fitted to it and can serve to accommodate an Hg source 14 and also as an exhaust tube, and to a corresponding production proces... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7863819 | Metal halide lamp with adhesive layer sealing molybdenum/vandium alloy leadthrough The invention relates to a metal halide lamp comprising a ceramic discharge vessel (10), characterized in that an MoV leadthrough is connected to a PCA element (Al2O3) by means of a specific adhesive layer containing Al and Mo. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852006 | Ceramic lamp having molybdenum-rhenium end cap and systems and methods therewith A lamp comprising an arc envelope and a molybdenum-rhenium end structure coupled to the arc envelope. ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7804248 | Lamp with shaped wall thickness, method of making same and optical apparatus A lamp, a method of making a bulb for a lamp and an optical apparatus are disclosed. The lamp may include an anode and cathode disposed within a bulb. The bulb may include an optically refractive wall that is rotationally symmetric about an axis. A thickness of the ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7800308 | Excimer lamp A excimer lamp comprises an electric discharge container in which a sealing member is provided between a lid member and an arc tube which does not contain silica, and a pair of external electrodes which are separately provided on an outer surface of the arc tube, wh... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7795814 | Interconnection feedthroughs for ceramic metal halide lamps An arc discharge metal halide lamp for providing visible light comprising an arc discharge vessel which has capillary tubes therein in at least one of which there is a first electrical feedthrough extending through an interior passageway to have an interior end of t... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7786673 | Gas-filled shroud to provide cooler arctube A lamp is provided having an arctube having a light-transmitting envelope. The arctube is surrounded by a gaseous medium confined by a containment envelope such as a hermetic shroud. The gaseous medium is preferably He or H2 or Ne or another gas whose the... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7750571 | Increasing the discharge arc diffuseness in mercury-free discharge lamps A mercury-free gas discharge lamp suitable in particular for motor vehicles has an enhanced discharge arc diffuseness. The lamp according includes an inner vessel and/or outer bulb with a structured arrangement or pattern such that the discharge arc diffuseness of t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7741779 | Metal vapor discharge lamp and illumination apparatus A metal vapor discharge lamp and a lighting fixture are downsized without causing breakage of an outer tube because of optimization of a positional relation among the outer tube (34), an inner tube (32), and an arc tube (40). The metal vapor dis... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7710039 | Compact fluorescent lamp and method for manufacturing A compact fluorescent lamp comprises a discharge tube arrangement with at least one discharge tube. The tube is formed of glass, encloses a discharge volume filled with a discharge gas and has a fluorescent phosphor coating disposed on the inner surface of the tube.... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7705539 | Tungsten-halogen quartz lamp A tungsten-halogen quartz lamp with a structure for preventing glass-bead supporter from breaking off, which can insure that its glass-bead supporter could not leave and drop from the top of a bulb in any case, so that reliability of a holding-filament structure is ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701141 | High pressure lamp and associated operating method for resonant operation of high pressure lamps in the longitudinal mode, and an associated system The high pressure discharge lamp is fitted with a discharge vessel that has an inside volume with an inside length IL and a maximum inside diameter ID, and that is subdivided into a middle region of constant inside diameter ID and two end regions of variable inside ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701142 | Ceramic HID arc tube assembly An arc tube assembly (10) for a protected high intensity discharge lamp. The assembly has a ceramic arc tube (12) with a short shroud (20) surrounding at least the arc chamber (14) of the arc tube. The short shroud (20) allows the ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701140 | High-pressure discharge lamp The invention relates to a high-pressure discharge lamp with an outer envelope (1) in which a discharge vessel (11) is arranged around a longitudinal axis (22). The discharge vessel encloses, in a gastight manner, a discharge space (13) p... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7687997 | UVC/VUV dielectric barrier discharge lamp with reflector The subject of the present invention relates to a high efficiently dielectric barrier discharge (DBD)-lamp for generating and/or emitting a radiation of ultraviolet (UV)-light comprising: a discharge gap (1) being at least partly formed and/or surrounded by a... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7679289 | Flat fluorescent lamp having grooves A flat fluorescent lamp is disclosed, wherein rows of U-shaped grooves are formed in a front glass substrate, rows of wavy parallel grooves are formed in a rear glass substrate, and the U-shaped grooves and the wavy parallel groves are made to be perpendicular to ea... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7622867 | Cold cathode fluorescent lamp and backlight module using same A cold cathode fluorescent lamp includes: a working gas, a transparent tube, a fluorescent layer, an anode, a cold cathode and a light cut filter film. The transparent tube receives a working gas, and has an inner surface and an outer surface. The fluorescent layer ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7615930 | Shrouded arc discharge lamp suitable for downlighting applications A low-wattage, high intensity arc discharge electric lamp (10) has a thick-walled outer envelope (12) extending along a longitudinal axis (14) and has a bulbous portion (16) and a narrow, cylindrical base (18) including oppositely ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7612503 | Electric lamp having an outer bulb The elongate inner bulb (1) defines a longitudinal axis (A) and is sealed at mutually opposing ends by sealing parts (6; 32), an outer bulb being placed, with an adjoining tube piece, over the inner bulb and being fixed to the sealing part by means of ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7592751 | Excimer lamp and ultraviolet-rays irradiation apparatus having the same An excimer lamp has an arc tube made of dielectric materials capable of transmitting ultraviolet rays, a pair of electrodes facing each other through the dielectric materials forming the arc tube, and a high voltage power supply terminal for supplying high voltage t... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7589468 | High intensity discharge lamp A metal halide lamp is disclosed comprising an elongated discharge vessel, preferably made of a ceramic material, surrounded by an outer envelope and having a wall which encloses a discharge space containing an inert gas, such as xenon, and an ionizable filling, whe... | 09/15/2009 |
