High-pressure gas discharge lamp having a seal with a cylindrical crack about the electrode rod

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5461277
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07957538

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A high pressure discharge lamp includes a sealed lamp vessel (1) having a quartz glass wall (2) enclosing a discharge space (3). Metal foils (4) are embedded in the wall, connected to electrode rods (6), and have a circumferential coating (7) of quartz glass at least adjacent the metal foil. The coating has a firm adherence to the rod. It may comprise in its boundary (7') adjoining the rod/coating interface an addition, e.g. selected from a group comprising thorium, yttrium, hafnium. Alternatively, rhenium may be present at the surface of the rod, giving an interlocking configuration of the rod and its coating. Due to a strong adherence of the quartz glass to the rod upon completing a seal, and due to large differences in expansion coefficients, the coating is torn off from the wall so as to be mechanically loose from the wall. The coating prevents premature failure of the lamp caused by leakage.

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U S PHILIPS CORP100 EAST 42ND STREET NEW YORK NY 10017

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Van, Dommelen Mark J L M Eindhoven, NL 1 14
Van, Gennip Petrus M G Eindhoven, NL 2 17

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