Discharge lamp device

• US 6,894,429 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2002
• Issued: 05/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Company Limited
• Inventors: Harazaki, Masato, Mochizuki, Kunimasa, Shido, Masaya, Tsuda, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dong, Dalei
• Application Number:
  US10/093,382
• Publication Number:
  US 20020130601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,163 Days
• Field of Search: 313/318, 313110-113, 313/25, 313/580, 313/238, 313/318.01, 313/318.02, 313/318.09, 313/318.1, 313310-313, 439/611, 439352-353, 439/355, 362/285, 362/288, 362/255, 362/311, 362/369, 362/396
• US Class Current: 313/318.09
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 5/52 directly applied to or forming part of the vessel
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/025 Associated optical elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/82 Lamps with high-pressure unconstricted discharge having a cold pressure > 400 Torr

Abstract

In a discharge lamp device, the arc tube body is configured by welding and integrating shroud glass with an arc tube so as to enclose a discharging portion, and a rearward elongating portion of the arc tube that elongates in the rear of the shroud glass is inserted and held into an opening of an insulating plug which is made of synthetic resin. A UV blocking film is formed on the outer surface of the rearward elongating portion of the arc tube. UV components of leakage light from the rearward elongating portion are cut off, and the amount of ultraviolet rays to which the resin layer in the opening is exposed is reduced. The UV blocking film is in the opening, and hence cannot be seen through a front lens.

Claims

1. A discharge lamp device comprising:

an arc tube body including

an arc tube having a discharging portion, and

cylindrical shroud glass enclosing said discharging portion and integrated with an arc tube by welding,

an insulating plug made of a synthetic resin and holding a rearward elongating portion of said arc tube in a front opening of said insulating plug, said rearward elongating portion of said arc tube elongating in a rear of said shroud glass; and

a metal light blocking member with a portion interposed between a rear end face of said shroud glass and said front opening of said insulating plug, said light blocking member blocking light which is emitted from a rear end portion of said shroud glass and reaches an inner peripheral face of said front opening of said insulating plug;

wherein said metal light blocking member has a shape of a bottomed cylinder

and further comprising a metal supporting member that fixingly supports said shroud glass and is disposed on a front face of said insulating plug;

wherein said metal light blocking member is fixed and integrated with said metal supporting member, or formed integrally with said metal supporting member.

2. The discharge lamp device according to claim 1,

wherein said metal light blocking member is coveringly attached to said rear end portion of said shroud glass;

and

wherein said metal light blocking member includes;

an insertion hole; and

an elastic engaging piece formed in a peripheral edge portion of said insertion hole for said rearward elongating portion of said arc tube; and

wherein said metal light blocking member is retainingly held by engaging said elastic engaging piece with a constricted portion disposed in a root portion of said rearward elongating portion of said arc tube.

3. The discharge lamp device according to claim 1,

wherein said metal supporting member comprises a metal gripping band gripping a portion in a vicinity of said rear end portion of said shroud glass, and

wherein said metal light blocking member is coveringly attached to said rear end portion of said shroud glass, and

wherein said metal light blocking member is fixed and integrated with said metal gripping band, or formed integrally with said gripping band.

4. The discharge lamp device according to claim 1,

wherein said metal supporting member comprises:

a metal gripping band gripping a portion in a vicinity of said rear end portion of said shroud glass; and

a metal slide plate for positioning said arc tube body and fixing said gripping band to a front face of said insulating plug; and

wherein said metal light blocking member is loosely fitted on said rear end portion of said shroud glass and integrated with said metal slide plate.

5. The discharge lamp device according to claim 1,

wherein a base plate of said metal supporting member is fixed to a front face of said insulating plug;

wherein said holding member of said metal supporting member comprises;

a metal gripping band gripping a portion of said shroud glass; and

a metal slide plate for positioning said arc tube body and fixing said gripping band to said base plate, and

wherein said metal light blocking member is loosely fitted on said rear end portion of said shroud glass and clamped between said metal base plate and said metal slide plate.

6. A discharge lamp device comprising:

an arc tube body including

an arc tube having a discharging portion; and

a cylindrical shroud glass enclosing said discharging portion and integrated with an arc tube by welding;

an insulating plug made of a synthetic resin and holding a rearward elongating portion of said arc tube in a front opening of said insulating plug, said rearward elongating portion of said arc tube elongating in a rear of said shroud glass;

a metal supporting member fixingly supports said shroud glass and disposed on a front face of said insulating plug;

wherein said metal light blocking member is fixed and integrated with said metal supporting member, or formed integrally with said metal supporting member; and

a metal light blocking member with a portion interposed between a rear end face of said shroud glass and said front opening of said insulating plug, said light blocking member blocking light which is emitted from a rear end portion of said shroud glass and reaches an inner peripheral face of said front opening of said insulating plug;

wherein said metal light blocking member has a shape of a cylinder extending along an inner peripheral face of said front opening of said insulating plug, said inner peripheral face facing said rear end portion of said shroud glass; and

wherein said metal light blocking member is pressingly inserted into said front opening of said insulating plug and retained by said metal supporting member disposed on a front face of said insulating plug to fixingly support a portion in a vicinity of said rear end portion of said shroud glass.