EP0528427A1 - Lampe à décharge à haute pression - Google Patents

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EP0528427A1
EP0528427A1 EP92114222A EP92114222A EP0528427A1 EP 0528427 A1 EP0528427 A1 EP 0528427A1 EP 92114222 A EP92114222 A EP 92114222A EP 92114222 A EP92114222 A EP 92114222A EP 0528427 A1 EP0528427 A1 EP 0528427A1
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Gottfried Eichelbrönner
Stefan Dr. Jüngst
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J61/00—Gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps
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    • H01J61/36—Seals between parts of vessels; Seals for leading-in conductors; Leading-in conductors
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  • the invention is based on a high-pressure discharge lamp according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Feedthroughs made of niobium are usually used (DE-PS 1 471 379). However, these are only of limited suitability for long lifetimes and good color rendering, since the niobium tube and the melting ceramic used for sealing corrode particularly in lamps with metal halide fillings. An improvement is described in EP-PS 136 505. Due to the shrinking process of the "green" ceramic, the niobium tube is melted tight during the final sintering without melting ceramic. This is possible because both materials have approximately the same thermal expansion coefficient (8 x 10 ⁇ 6 K ⁇ 1).
  • a bushing with a surface made of platinum, iron, nickel or cobalt which has a core made of an alloy adapted to the ceramic.
  • the bushing may be tapered and connected to the plug using a ceramic inner support, both also tapered, by axial pressing under a certain pressure and in a certain gas atmosphere.
  • Discharge lamps are known from DE-PS 25 48 732 and 26 41 880, in which the tubular current feedthrough consists of tungsten, molybdenum or rhenium, the tube being supported by a ceramic cylinder with straight, axially aligned walls in its interior. It is solid or hollow, in the latter case the bore serves as a pump nozzle and is subsequently closed.
  • the seal between the bushing and the ceramic parts lying inside and outside, both of which had already been sintered beforehand at a temperature of 1850 ° C, is still made with a ceramic ceramic, so that the susceptibility to corrosion of these lamps is improved, but especially when using Metal halide fillings do not yet meet the desired requirements.
  • a corrosion-resistant melting ceramic it has so far not been possible to develop a corrosion-resistant melting ceramic.
  • the invention uses the shrinking process of a green ceramic for the sealing between the stopper and the non-adapted implementation and thereby avoids the use of the corrosion-prone melting ceramic.
  • an inner support in the form of an already finished sintered ceramic is used which is no longer exposed to a shrinking process.
  • Inner support and stopper should consist of the same ceramic material. The combination of these two measures extends the life of these lamps considerably (up to a factor of four).
  • Sealing is achieved by initially leaving the end plug as a green body into which the tubular current feedthrough including the inner support is inserted. When the plug is finally sintered, the necessary secure bond is achieved by shrinking the end plug (approx. 2-20%). The expanding green body of the end plug presses on the pipe and presses it against the inner support body. The temperatures required for this (approx. 1850 ° C) are by no means reached at the end plug during lamp operation (approx. 1100 ° C).
  • connection is particularly advantageous in the case of fillings containing halide, since there is no need for components that are susceptible to corrosion.
  • the already known melting ceramic technology is still retained, because in this case no halide reaches the melting ceramic. It should be noted that only melting ceramics with a melting point above the sintering temperature are suitable. It has been shown that metallic solders can also be used. The latter have a higher elastic elongation and are therefore more able to connect bodies with different expansion coefficients.
  • the melting ceramic is also omitted for the inner support.
  • the idea here is to put the seal on the To create the inside of the current feedthrough by the pressure of the plug on the outside.
  • the inner support is in the form of a solid cylinder or a cylindrical tube (hollow cylinder). In the latter case, the central hole is used for pumping and filling purposes. You can later with a melting ceramic or the like. be closed.
  • the height of the inner support is smaller than the height of the stopper has proven particularly useful, especially if the inner support is also fastened in the tube without melting ceramic or metallot.
  • a typical value is a 30% reduction.
  • An embodiment shows particular advantages in which tapers at least a part of the inner support. This shape makes it considerably easier to adapt the composite parts (plug-pipe inner support), since differences in diameter are automatically compensated for by axial displacement. The initial fit only has to be accurate to about 200 ⁇ m. In addition, the mounting of the inner support in the tube is automatically ensured before it is connected. This embodiment is particularly well suited for connection technology without melting ceramics.
  • the tube itself can already have a conical section, the angle of inclination being the same for the inner support and tube (typically 10 °).
  • the angle of inclination being the same for the inner support and tube (typically 10 °).
  • the originally only the inner support is completely or partially slightly conical (5-10 °).
  • the originally circular cylindrical tube is first pressed into a conical shape. This is advantageously done by friction welding, in that the tube is pulled onto the inner support with constant rotation.
  • the tube can already be slightly conical (typically 5 °) and additionally expanded (to typically 10 °) during friction welding. This assembly is then inserted into the conically shaped green body of the end plug and the end plug is sintered.
  • the invention provides a high-pressure discharge lamp with a long service life, the tightness of which is not impaired by the use of fillings containing halide.
  • the discharge vessel is usually tubular, either cylindrical or bulged in the middle. It is often arranged in a one- or two-sided outer bulb.
  • a metal halide discharge lamp with an output of 150 W is shown schematically in FIG. It consists of a cylindrical outer bulb 1 made of tempered glass which defines a lamp axis and is squeezed (2) and base (3) on two sides.
  • the axially arranged discharge vessel 8 made of Al2O3 ceramic is bulged in the middle 4 and has cylindrical ends 9. It is held in the outer bulb 1 by means of two power leads 6, which are connected to the base parts 3 via foils 5.
  • the power supply lines 6 are welded to tubular bushings 10, which are each fitted in a plug 11 at the end of the discharge vessel.
  • the two bushings 10 made of molybdenum (or also tungsten, possibly alloyed with rhenium) each hold electrodes 12 on the discharge side, consisting of an electrode shaft 13 and a coil 14 pushed on at the discharge end.
  • the discharge vessel is filled with an inert ignition gas, e.g. Argon, from mercury and additives to metal halides.
  • the melting area at one end of the discharge vessel 8 is shown in detail in FIG.
  • the discharge vessel 8 has a wall thickness of 1.2 mm at its two ends 9.
  • a cylindrical stopper 11 made of Al2O3 ceramic is inserted into the end 9 of the discharge vessel. Its outer diameter is 3.3 mm with a height of 5 mm.
  • a bushing a molybdenum tube 10 with a length of 12 mm, a wall thickness of 0.1 mm and a constant diameter of 1.4 mm fitted, which is closed at the discharge end 15.
  • the shaft 13 is welded onto the end 15.
  • the tube 10 protrudes on both sides beyond the plug 11.
  • a ceramic inner support 16 made of Al2O3 is arranged at the stopper. It is a solid cylinder, the outer diameter of which is closely matched to the inner diameter of the tube 10 (to approximately 15 ⁇ m), and which is connected to the tube by an intermediate layer 17 of metal. In contrast, there is no additional compound between tube 10 and stopper 11.
  • the plug 11 is sintered directly onto the tube 10.
  • the stopper 11 is also sintered onto the tube 18, which is sealed gas-tight on the discharge side in that the electrode shaft 13 is welded into the open end of the tube 18.
  • the inner support 19, which has approximately the height of the plug, is closely fitted into the tube 18 - the tolerance is approximately 50 ⁇ m - and thus forms a counterpart in the shrinking process of the plug 11, which ensures firm gas-tight contact between the tube 18 and the inner support 19 .
  • a stop for the inner support can be used. It can be in the The simplest case is an annular spring part made of high-melting material that is spread into the cylindrical tube. As shown in FIG. 3, an extension 25 of the inner support serving as a spacer, which rests on the shaft 13 of the electrode, is particularly suitable.
  • the tightness is further improved in that the inner support 20 designed here as a hollow cylinder has a reduced height of 3.5 mm in comparison to the plug 11 and in the tube 18 in the middle with respect to the height the plug is arranged.
  • indentations 21 form, which extend from the end edges 22 of the inner support to the height of the end faces 23 of the plug. The reason is that the resistance of the inner support when shrinking the plug ceramic is missing in these sections.
  • the indentations 21 are exaggerated because in reality they are barely visible to the naked eye.
  • the fit of the stopper and the tightness of the leadthrough 18 on both its outside and inside are additionally improved.
  • the hollow cylinder 20 can be used as a pump nozzle if the tube 18 is equipped with an opening 18 '. After evacuation and filling, the hollow cylinder 20 is closed by a suitable melting ceramic 24 in a manner known per se.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 Another option, especially at an inner support which is shortened in comparison to the plug can be used is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.
  • the stop is formed by a conical central section 26 or 27 of the tube 28 or 29, against which a corresponding conical end section 30 or 31 of the inner support 32 or 33 abuts. It does not matter whether the conical section is arranged on the side of the bushing facing the discharge (FIG. 5) or the side facing away (FIG. 6). In both cases the plug 11 is also provided with corresponding bevels 34, 35.
  • the inner support 33 can be offset relative to the stopper on the side remote from the discharge or even protrude on the end face of the stopper.
  • the inner support can be fastened using both of the techniques previously shown (FIGS. 2 and 3).
  • FIGS. 7 to 9 Embodiments with special advantages are shown in FIGS. 7 to 9.
  • a completely conical inner support is inserted in the conical central sections 27 of the tube 29, offset to the side remote from the discharge.
  • the inner support can again be solid (FIG. 7) as a truncated cone 36 or tubular with conical inner walls (36 'in FIG. 8) or straight inner walls (36' 'in FIG. 9).
  • FIG. 9 meets extremely high requirements for tightness and thus a long service life. It corresponds essentially to that Examples of FIGS. 7 and 8, but here a particularly secure connection between the molybdenum tube 29 and the conical inner support 36 ′′ has been made by friction welding.
  • a connecting layer 37 a few atomic layers thick (shown in FIG. 9 exaggerated for clarity) is formed between the molybdenum tube and the inner support.
  • the angle of inclination of the cone is less than 10 ° here in order to keep the mechanical deformation of the originally straight molybdenum tube 29 as low as possible.
  • the bevels 35 of the plug have the same inclination.
  • the end section 38 of the tube with an enlarged diameter attaches directly to the base end 39 of the inner support, in accordance with the method of manufacture.
  • the friction welding technique can also be applied to the partially conical embodiments.

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