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US 4,559,470 AGranted
Fluorescent discharge lamp
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKatsuo Murakami, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Norihiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Ito
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AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKatsuo Murakami, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Norihiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Ito
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A fluorescent discharge lamp of improved light output having a plurality of phosphor layers stacked on a substrate of a glass tube so that the concentration of activator for the phosphor layer located near the glass substrate is less than that for the phosphor layer located at a position remote from the glass substrate, thereby to form phosphor layer having a low reflection factor to an ultraviolet ray on the electric discharge side, and a phosphor layer of enhanced quantum efficiency and high reflection factor to the ultraviolet ray on the side of the glass substrate. The ultraviolet ray generated with an electric discharge is caused to be absorbed as much as possible by the phosphor layers thereby to improve the light output. The lamp is used in, for example the field of illumination.
A fluorescent discharge lamp comprising a glass tube for surrounding a source of ultraviolet rays, and a plurality of successive phosphor layers coated on the inner surface of said glass tube, each of said phosphor layers containing a phosphor having a matrix and an activator in said matrix, wherein the concentration of said activator in the respective phosphor layers increases with increasing remoteness of said phosphor layer from said inner surface of said glass tube, the phosphors in each phosphor layer having the same components and the same activator, differing in the proportion of the activator in the respective phosphors.
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