Ultra-high pressure discharge lamp
AssigneeUshiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKensuke Fukushima
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Abstract
An ultra-high pressure discharge lamp in which the disadvantage of the reduction of the illuminance maintenance factor due to formation of blackening and milky opacification in the discharge vessel and the disadvantage of formation of cracks in the discharge vessel is eliminated by the discharge vessel being made of a silica glass that contains 0.1 ppm by weight to 290 ppm by weight hydrogen. Further advantages are obtained by the silica glass having a content of OH radicals that is at most 1 ppm by weight and a content of aluminum in a range of 2 ppm by weight to 30 ppm by weight.
Claims4
Ultra-high pressure discharge lamp, comprising:
- a discharge vessel made of silica glass which is filled at least 0.15 mg/mm3 of mercury, and which contains a pair of opposed electrodes,
- wherein the silica glass contains 0.1 ppm by weight to 290 ppm by weight of hydrogen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.