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EP0331660A2
EP0331660A2 EP89850075A EP89850075A EP0331660A2 EP 0331660 A2 EP0331660 A2 EP 0331660A2 EP 89850075 A EP89850075 A EP 89850075A EP 89850075 A EP89850075 A EP 89850075A EP 0331660 A2 EP0331660 A2 EP 0331660A2
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fluorescent tube
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Torsten Axelsson
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Auralight AB
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Lumalampan AB
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J61/00Gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps
    • H01J61/02Details
    • H01J61/30Vessels; Containers
    • H01J61/34Double-wall vessels or containers
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J61/00Gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps
    • H01J61/70Lamps with low-pressure unconstricted discharge having a cold pressure < 400 Torr
    • H01J61/72Lamps with low-pressure unconstricted discharge having a cold pressure < 400 Torr having a main light-emitting filling of easily vaporisable metal vapour, e.g. mercury

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  • the present invention relates to a gas discharge lamp of the tubular kind filled with gas or vapour at low pres­sure, e.g. a fluorescent lamp.
  • a gas discharge lamp of the tubular kind filled with gas or vapour at low pres­sure e.g. a fluorescent lamp.
  • the inventive gas discharge lamp has properties which render it especially suited for use in low ambient temperatures.
  • the lamp is therefore particularly suited for outdoor use in the Nordic winter climate, and also for illuminating cold storage and freeze storage facil­ities.
  • Fluorescent lamps are widely used in the open, because the fluorescent lamp gives light more efficient­ly than an incandescent lamp. In addition to street lighting, fluorescent lamps have thus been used to illuminate road signs, as canopy lighting, e.g.
  • a fluorescent tube which is mounted in known kinds of lamp casings or enclosures will, to some extent, be self-heating, since the air present in the casing is able to conduct heat away from the actual fluorescent tube only to a very limited extent.
  • This problem applies to fluorescent tubes incorporated in advertising signs (company name signs) and road signs (traffic), such as overhead lane-­destination signs of partially translucent design, and also to fluorescent tubes which are mounted in enclosed lamp fittings. With the ambient air stationary and the air temperature beneath 0°C, this self-heating effect will result in a surface temperature of +15°C on the coldest part of the fluorescent tube.
  • the self-heating effect is so small as to produce hardly any increase in luminous flux.
  • the lamp casings or enclosures absorb all of the increase in luminous flux achieved by self-­heating of the fluorescent tube. Consequently, the great majority of fluorescent lamps for outdoor use are of the kind which have reflectors fitted over the fluorescent tube, but which lack the provision of a casing.
  • the purpose of encasing fluorescent lamps is to protect the fluorescent tubes from damage through mechanical causes, and the lighting requirement has been made secondary to the need of protecting the lamp.
  • Tunnels are another area of use in which fluorescent tubes or lamps can be subjected to the effects of low ambient temperatures.
  • the air flow through tunnels, even when the tunnels have a length of several hundred meters, is so large that any heat which may be radiated from the surrounding rock or earth is unable to supple­ment heating of the surfaces of the fluorescent tube.
  • the luminous flux will decrease exponentially with falling air temp­eratures. This can have a serious consequence, for instance, on a cold sunny winter's day when a car driver will see the road with an illumination strength of close to 100 000 lux.
  • this driver enters an illuminated tunnel his eyes must adjust to an illuminance which is far below 100 lux. Road safety and the driver's own feeling of security are assisted by the fact that the fluorescent lamps in the tunnel maintain a practically normal luminous flux, even in very cold weather condi­tions.
  • the luminous flux is reduced to a third of its original value when the ambient temperature lies within a range of +10°C to 0°C.
  • the matter is made more serious by the fact that the luminous flux of a 26 mm tube at +10°C is 20% lower than the luminous flux of a 38 mm tube of corresponding power.
  • the starters or chokes normally used are effective in short circuiting the electrodes, so that they are preheated by through surging current, whereby when the striker opens, a spark arcs from anode to cathode and a positive column is generated therebet­ween.
  • the striker will open and close a number of times before the electrodes are sufficiently warm to sustain an arc therebetween. It may often take 30 seconds for the tube to ignite, which drawback is far more manifest in 26 mm tubes than in tubes of 38 mm in diameter.
  • the object of the present invention is to solve the problems which are associated with the use of narrow fluorescent tubes in freezing temperatures and to pro­vide a lamp which has high illuminance at low tempera­tures.
  • This object is realized in accordance with the invention with a narrow fluorescent tube which is sur­rounded along the whole of its length by a fixed trans­parent outer tube, for instance a glass tube.
  • Other characteristic features of the inventive solution are set forth in the following claims.
  • a gas-discharge lamp which comprises an inner fluorescent tube that is surrounded or enveloped by a glass tube or envelope, which may be transparent or opalescent.
  • the ends of this outer tube or envelope are fixed to the cathode-containing ends of the glass tube of the dis­charge lamp, such as to leave a tubular space of con­stant width between the outer tube and the inner tube.
  • This fixation of the outer glass tube may be effected with the aid of seals located at the ends of the lamp, between the two glass tubes.
  • These seals may have the form of polymer sealing rings, or may otherwise comprise age-resistant gas-impermeable material.
  • the gas most preferred in this respect is dry, dust-free air, although in particular cases the gas may comprise a noble gas or a mixture of such gases.
  • the gas in the aforesaid space may be kept at atmo­spheric pressure, although in combination with the tube wall, which is normally less than 2 mm thick, and in order to increase the heat insulating ability, the gas is preferably held at a pressure beneath atmospheric.
  • the insulating ability is also dependent on the width of the space, which width may be from 2-10 mm, depending on the intended lamp application. When the fluorescent tube has an external diameter of 26 mm and is surrounded by a glass envelope whose outer diameter is 38 mm, the tubular space will have a width of 5 mm.
  • the light may be directed positively from the lamp fitting, normally downwards.
  • the inner surface of the tubular envelope or outer glass tube may be coated with a light and heat reflective mat­erial, through an angle of arc of up to 180°C.
  • this embodiment affords the further ad­vantage of reflecting heat rays back to the discharge chamber of the lamp.
  • the resultant increase in the temperature of the discharge chamber corresponds to an increase in illumination strength of more than 20% when the ambient temperature is beneath +10°C. Together with the light reflection, an increase in illuminating power of between 50 and 60% can be achieved.
  • Fluorescent tubes of this construction can also be turned through 180°C in reflector-fitted lamp fittings, resulting in a type of top-reflection. This gives a very soft light and promotes self-heating of the lamp.
  • the inventive lamp is believed to afford a good solution to the illuminating requirements expressed by those who work on oil rigs in arctic climates.
  • the outer en­velope of the inventive lamp will also afford protection against mechanical damage.
  • the inventive lamp thus provides in this instance a safety lamp which will reduce explosion hazards on oil platforms and rigs.
  • the inventive lamp illustrated in Figure 1 is a pre­ferred embodiment of the invention, namely a double-­ walled fluorescent lamp 1.
  • the lamp comprises a fluores­cent tube 2 which has a diameter of 26 mm and which is fitted at both ends with lamp bases 3 having connector pins 4.
  • the tube 2 also has cathodes placed on a ter­minal foot 5 in the usual manner, the cathodes in this case being surrounded by electrode screens 6.
  • the elec­trical contact pins extend through the foot, or base, 5 to the cathode current distributor 7.
  • the fluorescent tube 2 of the illustrated embodiment is surrounded by a tubular glass envelope 8 which is trans­parent and has an outer diameter of 38 mm and the ends of which are drawn or necked slightly inwards.
  • the ends of the tubular envelope 8 are inserted into ring-shaped grooves in polymer rings 9 which are press-fitted onto the bases 3.
  • the tubular envelope is fitted with the aid of polymer rings 9 in a chamber which is under a partial vacuum and to which only dry, filtered air is introduced, the air present in a tubular space 10 bet­ween the fluorescent tube 2 and the tubular envelope 8 will be free from dust.
  • the application of atmospheric pressure will assist in holding the polymer rings 9 tightly and sealingly between the envelopes 8 and respective lamp bases 3.
  • seals 11 consisting of some form of siloxane are provided on the side of the polymer rings 9 that faces towards the discharge chamber.
  • siloxane compound can be placed in the grooves in the rings 9 into which respective ends of the outer tube 8 are fitted, and a bead of siloxane compound can be provided on the fluorescent tube 2 in immediate contact with the polymer rings 9.
  • polydimethylsiloxane compound disposed on each end of the lamp.
  • the active substance in the siloxane compound comprises trimethyl siloxane monomers and an addition of a catalyzing and stabilizing substance.
  • the ignition time for the 36W Termo lamps was under 5 seconds, whereas the 36W lamps took between 8 and 20 seconds to ignite, the longest ignition times being experienced with the eldest starters.
  • the 58W lamps could not be ignited with the oldest starters at the aforesaid test temperature. When using the starters which had been used 2000 times previously, only some of the lamps would ignite, and then only after an average time lapse of 25 seconds. When using a new starter, one lamp ignited after 8 seconds and all lamps ignited during the tests with new starters were seen to ignite in 15 seconds or less. In the case of the 58W Termo lamps, ignitions were observed within 8 seconds, except in the case of those lamps with which old starters were used.
  • Figures 2, 3 and 4 show the average luminance of the lamps tested, at different temperatures. Previously documented values for 20W, 40W and 65W lamps have also been shown, for comparison purposes.
  • the inner surfaces of the outer glass tube or envelope of the inventive lamp may be coated with substances which will filter out undesired light.
  • This technique enables critical ultraviolet lines to be further reduced with the aid of light-absorbing or fluorescent substances. The following substances have been found suitable in this respect.
  • the substances are applied to the inner surface of the outer tube 8 in the form of a suspension having a dry solids content of between 0.3 and 0.5mg/cm2. These dyestuffs or pigmenting substances are burned onto the glass. Alternatively, organic dyestuffs may be used. When using organic dyestuff, however, burning, or stov­ing, cannot be effected at temperatures which lie above 500°C. In all events, a binder must be added when burning, baking,organic dyestuffs.
  • One suitable binder in this regard is ammonium polymethyl acrylate.

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EP89850075A 1988-03-02 1989-03-02 Lampe à décharge dans un gaz à basse pression Expired - Lifetime EP0331660B1 (fr)

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SE8800747A SE8800747D0 (sv) 1988-03-02 1988-03-02 Lagtrycks-gasurladdningslampa
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US6201352B1 (en) 1995-09-22 2001-03-13 Gl Displays, Inc. Cold cathode fluorescent display
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US6316872B1 (en) 1995-09-22 2001-11-13 Gl Displays, Inc. Cold cathode fluorescent lamp
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US6452326B1 (en) 1995-09-22 2002-09-17 Gl Displays, Inc. Cold cathode fluorescent lamp and display
US6201352B1 (en) 1995-09-22 2001-03-13 Gl Displays, Inc. Cold cathode fluorescent display
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US6310436B1 (en) 1995-09-22 2001-10-30 Gl Displays, Inc. Cold cathode fluorescent lamp and display
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WO1999057749A3 (fr) * 1998-05-06 2000-11-30 Gl Displays Inc Lampe fluorescente a cathode froide, et afficheur
US6515433B1 (en) 1999-09-11 2003-02-04 Coollite International Holding Limited Gas discharge fluorescent device
WO2007085985A1 (fr) * 2006-01-25 2007-08-02 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Lampe à décharge de gaz à basse pression tld
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EP0331660A3 (fr) 1991-01-23
SE467279B (sv) 1992-06-22
ES2073459T3 (es) 1995-08-16
SE8900728L (sv) 1989-09-03
SE8900728D0 (sv) 1989-03-02
SE8800747D0 (sv) 1988-03-02
EP0331660B1 (fr) 1995-06-28
EP0330808A1 (fr) 1989-09-06
DE68923197T2 (de) 1995-11-09
ATE124573T1 (de) 1995-07-15

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