High-pressure discharge lamp having a capacitive ignition aid

• US 8,664,855 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2010
• Issued: 03/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LEDVANCE GmbH (MLS Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: OSRAM Licht AG (Ams-Osram AG)
• Inventors: Buttstaedt, Johannes, Dunkel, Stefan, Grabinski, Leon, Hentschel, Janbernd, Koch, Bernd, Lichtenberg, Stefan, Tueshaus, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Green, Tracie Y
• Application Number:
  US13/812,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20130181604A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,243 Days
• Field of Search: 445/22, 445/26, 445/27
• US Class Current: 313/623
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 5/48 Means forming part of the tube or lamp for the purpose of supporting it
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/12 Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/34 Double-wall vessels or containers
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/54 Igniting arrangements, e.g. promoting ionisation for starting
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/547 using an auxiliary electrode outside the vessel H01J61/544 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/82 Lamps with high-pressure unconstricted discharge having a cold pressure > 400 Torr

Abstract

A high-pressure discharge lamp having an ignition aid may be provided, having a discharge vessel that is surrounded by gas, wherein the discharge vessel includes two ends having fusings in which electrodes are secured, wherein an ignition aid is fastened on at least one fusing, wherein the ignition aid has a local field amplifier in the form of a tip or a curved part, wherein the ignition aid is configured to cause a corona discharge in the surrounding gas which emits UV radiation into the discharge vessel.

Claims

1. A high-pressure discharge lamp having an ignition aid, having a discharge vessel that is surrounded by gas, wherein the discharge vessel comprises two ends having fusings in which electrodes are secured, wherein an ignition aid is fastened on at least one fusing, wherein the ignition aid has a local field amplifier in the form of a tip or a curved part, wherein the ignition aid is configured to cause a corona discharge in the surrounding gas which emits UV radiation into the discharge vessel,

wherein the ignition aid is a clip which has a frame part with four sides and which is positioned on the fusing and surrounds this at least partially, wherein at least one tip extends inwardly from the frame part and in the mounted state points in the direction of the discharge volume.

2. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gas is selected from the group of noble gases, air, nitrogen or mixtures thereof.

3. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1,wherein at least one side of the frame part has a plurality of tips similar to the teeth of a comb.

4. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the discharge vessel is made of quartz glass and has a metal halide filling.

5. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ignition aid is galvanically or capacitively coupled.

6. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ignition aid has two parts which are distributed between the two fusings, wherein the two parts are connected via a conducting connection.

7. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 6, wherein the ignition aid as the first part has a cuff and as the second part a curved piece of wire, wherein the tip attached thereto ends at the second fusing outside at the height at which the electrode enters the discharge volume.

8. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the discharge vessel is housed in an outer bulb, which is filled with gas at a cold fill pressure of 10 mbar to 1 bar.

9. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the discharge vessel is open to air.

10. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 2, wherein the gas comprises Ar, Xe, or air.

11. A high-pressure discharge lamp having an ignition aid, having a discharge vessel that is surrounded by gas, wherein the discharge vessel comprises two ends having fusings in which electrodes are secured, wherein an ignition aid is fastened on at least one fusing, wherein the ignition aid has a local field amplifier in the form of a tip or a curved part, wherein the ignition aid is configured to cause a corona discharge in the surrounding gas which emits UV radiation into the discharge vessel,

wherein the ignition aid is a wire with a free tip, wherein the free tip ends at the fusing outside at the height where the electrode enters the discharge volume.

12. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 11, wherein the wire comprises a curved part which is formed in a U-shape with two legs and a base, wherein the curved part is partially curved around the fusing, wherein a retaining effect is obtained at the fusing by the curved part.

13. A high-pressure discharge lamp having an ignition aid, having a discharge vessel that is surrounded by gas, wherein the discharge vessel comprises two ends having fusings in which electrodes are secured, wherein an ignition aid is fastened on at least one fusing, wherein the ignition aid has a local field amplifier in the form of a tip or a curved part, wherein the ignition aid is configured to cause a corona discharge in the surrounding gas which emits UV radiation into the discharge vessel,

wherein the ignition aid is a spring sheet metal part to which at least one tip is attached.

14. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 13, wherein the tip is provided at the point where the clearance is smallest between the electrode and lamp exterior.