IP Library Granted Patent US 8,569,952
Granted Patent B2
US 8,569,952 · App. 13/127,498 · Granted Oct 29, 2013

Ceramic metal halide lamp having a high color temperature

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Patent No.
US 8,569,952
App. No.
13/127,498
Granted
Oct 29, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

In various embodiments, a high-pressure discharge lamp is provided. The high-pressure discharge lamp may include a ceramic discharge vessel which encloses a discharge volume, wherein a filling containing sodium halides, rare earth halides, mercury and inert gas is accommodated in the discharge volume, wherein the filling at the same time includes the rare earths Tm and Gd, the relative proportions between Gd and Tm, considered as a molar ratio, lying in the range 0.1 to 1.

Claims (25)

1. A high-pressure discharge lamp, comprising:

a ceramic discharge vessel or a quartz glass vessel which encloses a discharge volume,

wherein a filling containing sodium halides, rare earth halides, mercury and inert gas is accommodated in the discharge volume,

wherein the filling at the same time includes the rare earths Tm and Gd, the relative proportions between Gd and Tm, considered as a molar ratio, lying in the range 0.1 to 1 wherein the color temperature is in the range from 5950 k to 6500 k.

2. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the relative proportions lie between 0.2 and 0.8, marginal values included.

3. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the halide is at least one of iodine and bromine, and

wherein at least one of xenon and argon is used as the inert gas.

4. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the metal halides additionally have at least one of Ho and Pr as rare earths, each at max. 10 mol %.

5. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein halides of at least one of In and TI are used in addition as metal halides.

6. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the content of Hg is in the range of 1 to 20 mg/cm3.

7. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the molar ratio between the sum of all rare earths and Na is in the range 0.2 to 5.

8. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the lamp has a color rendering index of at least 80.

9. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the lamp has a light yield of at least 90 lm/W.

10. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 3 ,

wherein the halide is at least one of iodine and bromine with max. 50 mol % bromine.

11. The high-pressure discharge lamp as claimed in claim 7 ,

wherein the molar ratio between the sum of all rare earths and Na is in the range 0.3 to 3.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 7, 2020
From: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
To: OSRAM AG
Reel/Frame 053144/0163 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 7, 2020
From: OSRAM GMBH
To: LEDVANCE GMBH
Reel/Frame 053144/0291 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 7, 2020
From: OSRAM AG
To: OSRAM GMBH
Reel/Frame 053259/0743 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 4, 2011
From: GENZ, ANDREAS
To: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
Reel/Frame 026221/0071 →