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US 9,805,924 B2Granted
High-intensity discharge lamp assembly and method
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsDouglas R. Jungwirth, Anton M. Bouckaert, Christina Vlastelica
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Abstract
A lamp assembly including a housing defining an internal volume and a lamp positioned in the internal volume, the lamp including a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode is both thermally and electrically coupled to the housing, and wherein the second electrode is thermally coupled to the housing by way of a thermally conductive, electrically insulative material and a heat transfer element.
Claims20
A lamp assembly comprising:
- a housing defining an internal volume;
- a lamp positioned in the internal volume, the lamp comprising:
- a cathode thermally and electrically coupled to the housing;
- and
- an anode thermally coupled to and electrically isolated from the housing;
- a heat transfer element extending between the anode and the housing in the internal volume and thermally coupling the anode to the housing along a conductive cooling pathway;
- and
- a thermally conductive, electrically insulative material positioned in the conductive cooling pathway and electrically isolating the anode from the housing.
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A lamp assembly comprising:
- a housing defining an internal volume;
- a lamp positioned in the internal volume, the lamp comprising:
- a first electrode thermally and electrically coupled to the housing;
- and
- a second electrode thermally coupled to and electrically isolated from the housing;
- a heat pipe extending between the second electrode and the housing in the internal volume and thermally coupling the second electrode to the housing along a conductive cooling pathway;
- and
- a thermally conductive, electrically insulative material positioned in the conducting cooling pathway and electrically isolating the second electrode from the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.