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AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsFranciscus H. Van Lierop, Mathias L. M. Tunissen
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An electric lamp includes a lamp vessel sealed in a gastight manner and having a wall of ceramic material. A current supply conductor is connected to an electric element arranged in the lamp vessel and issues to the exterior via a lead-through channel in the wall. The current supply conductor has a first part with a comparatively high and a second part with a comparatively low melting point, which parts form a welded joint with mutually facing ends. The first part merges into a narrowing end having a length L and having a circumference O at the transition, which length L is at least one tenth of the circumference O, while the end is embedded at least partly in the end of the second part. This induction has the advantage that the current supply conductor can be manufactured more efficiently and with less wastage.
An electric lamp comprising a lamp vessel sealed in a gastight manner and having a wall of ceramic material with a lead-through channel, an electric element arranged in the lamp vessel, a current supply conductor connected to the electric element, which current supply conductor issues from the lamp vessel to the exterior via the lead-through channel in the wall and comprises a first part with a melting point and a second part with a melting point lower than the melting point of the first part, which first and second parts form a welded joint with mutually facing ends, characterized in that:
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