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US 4,291,250 AGranted
Arc discharge tube end seal
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorRanbir S. Bhalla
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Abstract
An improved arc tube end seal and the method of forming that seal in a high pressure sodium discharge lamp is disclosed. The method includes precoating the refractory metal end cap with a slurry of a mixture of refractory metal powder and powdered metallic silicon and baking the end cap prior to accomplishing the bonding of the end cap to the arc tube with a conventional sealing frit.
Claims7
A sealed high pressure sodium discharge lamp arc tube, said arc tube comprising:
- an elongated alumina arc tube body;
- a refractory metal end cap associated with each end of said arc tube body;
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- means sealing said end caps to the ends of said arc tube body, said means sealing said end caps to said ends of said arc tube body including a coating of a refractory metal silicide on the interior surface of said refractory metal end caps and a glassy sealing frit principally comprising alumina and calcia interposed between said refractory metal silicide coating and said alumina arc tube body.
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An arc tube for a high pressure sodium discharge lamp comprising:
- an elongated tubular ceramic arc tube body member;
- a pair of refractory metal end caps having a refractory metal silicide coating on the interior surface thereof sealed to and closing off the ends of said elongated tubular ceramic arc tube body member.
A sealed high pressure sodium discharge lamp arc tube, said arc tube comprising:
- an elongated monolithic alumina arc tube body having circular apertures in the ends thereof of a diameter substantially less than the diameter of the arc tube body;
- a refractory metal end cap having a refractory metal tubulation extending through the center thereof associated with each end of said arc tube body, with said tubulation extending through said small diameter aperture;
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- means sealing said end caps and tubulation to the ends of said arc tube body, said means sealing said end caps and tubulation to said ends of said arc tube body including a coating of a refractory metal silicide on the interior surface of said refractory metal end caps and the surface of said tubulation extending through said small diameter aperture in said arc tube body and a glassy sealing frit principally comprising alumina and calcia interposed between said refractory metal silicide coating and said alumina arc tube body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.