MXPA98005484A - Device to optimize the visible light produced by fluorescent lamps and gas mercu download - Google Patents

Abstract

This invention is essentially a device for optimizing the production of visible light from sources generating ultraviolet radiation by the action of an electric field produced, which when applied to a lamp or fluorescent tube in operation, allows an electric field to be manifested in an ionized cavity, which causes an important opposition and difficulty to the energetic dispersion that lamps or fluorescent tubes usually lose through the external glass wall in ultraviolet radiation, which achieves a greater efficiency in the conversion equation of the ultraviolet radiation in visible light, which makes this device an important tool for saving energy

Description

DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING THE PRODUCTION OF VISIBLE LIGHT FROM SOURCES GENERATING OF ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION BY THE ACTION OF AN ELECTRIC FIELD PRODUCED.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION It is known by all the problem that presents the increase of the consumption of electrical energy increased by the modern lighting, which is a direct result of the increase of the illuminated atmospheres with artificial light, and this problem is worsen in spite of the technological advance that they are having gaseous discharge lamps producing visible light. Indeed, although it has been possible to verify that these lamps or fluorescent tubes, they exceed 80% of traditional "incandescent" lamps in terms of the efficiency of the lumen / watt ratio, however, their efficiency can still be increased by using certain devices or various external attachments, and to make such changes over the years, some attempts have been made, such as: a) It has been sought to improve the lumen / watt efficiency, through the use of electronic ballast, which has achieved a significant economy of approximately 21% of active energy (in watts), compared with traditional electromagnetic ballasts that normally they feed the fluorescent tubes. b) Ceiling lamps or parabolic reflector fixtures have also been used, with high-gain aluminum plates, which has allowed a significant reduction in the number of luminaires projected in an installation, when compared with an installation with old-generation luminaires. c) There is also the Argentine patent number 249642 of the year 1996, which specifically uses a device designed to perform the recycling of ultraviolet radiation by using a specific reflector for such radiation, which achieves a luminous improvement to through a purely optical action.

All these improvements have been made with the purpose of alleviating the critical situation presented by the increase in energy consumption and the consequent environmental impact.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention is based on the formation of a "self-generated electric field (E)" either around a discharge lamp containing gaseous mercury, or traditional fluorescent tubes, thereby improving efficiency standards (relationship Lumen / Watt) in such important figures, that they will allow to save important percentages of energy. The present invention will also collaborate in achieving the objectives of improving lighting conditions in terms of lighting by mercury discharge lamps, decreasing by more than 70% the ultraviolet (near) radiation of the light spectrum that reaches the work plane, which it will also contribute in alleviating the environmental impact, and the aggression to the health of the people.

OBJECTIVES OF THE INVENTION One of the main objectives of the invention is to optimize the emission of ultraviolet radiation which is comprised between 253.7 nm to 380 nm (nm = nanometer) to increase the emission of visible light, an objective that is achieved by constructing a device that allows the formation of an "electric field (E)" or "ionized cavity" around the external wall of the lamp or the fluorescent tube. The described objective is reached because by properly organizing the constituent elements described below, a closed "ionized cavity" is formed, containing the atmospheric air that fills it, in what constitutes an "electric field (E)".

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The characteristic details of this device for optimizing the production of visible light from sources generating ultraviolet radiation by the action of an electric field produced, are clearly shown in the following description, as well as in the accompanying drawings by way of examples not limiting, as a more precise means of illustrating my invention, and where the reference signs, serve to indicate the same parts of the figures indicated, and where: Figure 1 is a front view of the device optimizing the production of visible light of my invention, where all its components are shown in decoupled position, without assembling, of a possible preferred embodiment of the device, in which: A) It is a structure external made from a transparent inorganic material that has an inner diameter greater than the diameter of the fluorescent tube it must accommodate. B) End caps are manufactured from an organic material, and have circular perforations having a diameter equivalent to the diameter of the fluorescent tube that must accommodate or carry.

C) It is a dielectric flexible sheet made from a crystalline transparent organic material, having a rectangular shape, with a surface greater than the development of the inner surface of the cylinder mentioned in A).

Figure 2 is a slightly perspective view of the visible light production optimizing device of my invention shown in Figure 1, but now in assembled position, having inside it a fluorescent tube. Figure 3 is a slightly perspective view of the device of my invention, in which the introduction of the fluorescent tube into the interior of the visible light optimizing device shown in Figures 1 and 2 is observed.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION In a preferred embodiment, but in no way limiting, and based on the letters shown in the previous figures, the device of my invention, to optimize the production of visible light from sources generating ultraviolet radiation by the action of a field electric produced, is formed by a plurality of components that when properly combined act as one, and that consists basically of: A rigid external structure (A), constituted from inorganic dielectric material of total transparency, with a thickness comprised between 1 mm to 0.80 mm., At whose ends, optionally one or two closing caps (B) are available, which they are perpendicularly located in relation to the longitudinal axis of the external structure (A), where said covers must be opaque to light and manufactured from a semi-rigid organic and dielectric material. Inside the rigid external structure (A) of the device and following the circular contour of the inner wall is located, endorsed, a flexible sheet (C) of dielectric organic material, forming a second coating on the entire inner surface of the structure rigid (A). This organic sheet has a melting point higher than 150 ° C (degrees Celsius) with optical characteristics of crystalline transparency and ultraviolet radiation filtering materials in its mass, ranging in thickness from 25 to 100 microns as technically appropriate to electrical characteristics and Forms of the lamp to be affected, said sheet must cover and close the entire inner surface of the external rigid structure (A) and may, therefore, overlap or be taught. These three elements assembled according to the description allow the constitution of an "ionized cavity (E)", which covers at least 96% of the perimeter extension of the lamp or fluorescent tube. The cavity being limited inside, by the outer wall of the fluorescent tube or lamp, and extending radially up to a distance no greater than 20mm. measured on the radius that arises in the axial center of the fluorescent tube or cylindrical lamp, up to the internal wall of the device (C). In specific cases of amorphous lamps, and according to the powers thereof, the distance between the internal walls of the device (C) and the external lamp will not be greater than 30 mm, nor less than 0.5 mm.

OPERATION OF THE INVENTION In one embodiment of the invention and as a non-limiting example, the operation of the visible light optimizing device applied specifically to fluorescent tubes will be explained. The electric field (E) is fed by the discharge of electrophotons, contributed by the ultraviolet radiation, that escape through the glass wall of the fluorescent tube in operation, creating a saturation of negatively charged gas particles (in the ionized cavity (E)), which make the escape or propagation of certain lengths difficult. monochromatic! ultraviolet spectrum (between 253.7 mm and 380 mm.), which discharge into the layer of fluorescent material that covers the inner wall of the fluorescent tube.

The mechanism explained above, is only to understand briefly in the first phase, the objective achieved by this invention, due to this "difficulty or opposition to the discharge to the outside or loss of primary energy", caused by the electric field (E) in some of the ultraviolet radiation lengths, is what manifests an imbalance in those mercury atoms (Hg), which in a "metastable" state, abound in the ionized cavity inside the fluorescent tube, passing, to the state of "resonance" ( 253.7 nm), which increases the generation of ultraviolet radiation emission and its corresponding conversion to visible light. The above is observed through the measurements made where there is a marked increase in the emission of visible light and a quantitative and qualitative change in the ultraviolet radiation spectrum (253.7 nm to 380 nm). The events produced by the presence of the "electric field (E)" continuously feed the "ionized cavity" that is located around the fluorescent tube in operation: This increase in visible light must be oriented to recompose the original photoluminal distribution characteristics of the lamp, affected by the device, by incorporating a high gain reflector (D) (98%) into the hole of the device and, following the arc of the internal half-cylinder of the device does not exceed 50% of the internal surface of the cylinder. The presence of the reflector (D) is necessary in order to correct retroreflection produced by the internal planes of the device wall that inappropriately deflect the rays of visible light increasing the negative or destructive interferences. The reflector (D) is located immediately inside the cavity that limits the organic dielectric flexible sheet (C) and is attached to this sheet. The reflector (D) has a covering or crystalline coating of transparent insulating resin applied on the metallic reflective plane of said reflector (D), so that the conductivity of the reflective plane is isolated and does not allow the collapse of the charges of the electric field ( E) surrounding the fluorescent tube or lamp. It is a condition sine qua non that the device does not have a ground connection and that the dielectric quality of its materials avoid losses or discharge to earth, for which reason it must be stable dielectrics at the temperatures and frequencies that are exposed, and respect a position relative to the adjacent environment connected to earth (artifact, luminary, luber, etc.) taking care not to have any physical contact except for atmospheric air.

Even though the invention has been shown and described in relation to a single specific modality thereof, it should be understood by all those skilled in the art, that changes may be made thereto, but that any other applications different from those herein indicated, are included within the spirit and scope of the invention, as indicated in the following claims.

Claims (4)

CLAIMS Having described and determined the nature and scope of the present invention and the manner in which it is to be put into practice, it is considered as a novelty, and therefore the content of:

1. - A device for optimizing the production of visible light from sources generating ultraviolet radiation by the action of an electric field produced, applicable to lamps and fluorescent gas discharge tubes, characterized by being constituted by an external structure of a dielectric material rigid and transparent inorganic, whose shapes and dimensions are according to the lamp or fluorescent tube that is placed in its interior, and for being internally composed with a flexible dielectric sheet of a crystalline transparent organic material, said sheet being attached over its entire surface to the inner wall of the external structure, and the assembly formed by the structure and the sheet being closed by one or both ends by one or two semi-rigid covers, made of a dielectric organic material with circular perforations of a diameter equivalent in size and shape , to the diameter of the fluorescent tube or to the lamp that houses The device will be configured in such a way as to configure the spontaneous formation of an electric field at the moment of operating the lamp or fluorescent tube, which is fed back by the ultraviolet radiation energy that escapes through the wall of the lamp or tube. fluorescent, until reaching saturation levels of negatively charged gaseous particles, which create opposition to this diffusion, and cause a greater influx and discharge of ultraviolet radiation in the layer of fluorescent material that covers the inner wall of the lamp or fluorescent tube, thus increasing the emission of visible light and the improvement in the lumen / watt ratio; and in which the entire assembly additionally carries in its hollow a metal reflector, electrically insulated in all its extension by a transparent organic dielectric material, which following the arc of the internal half-cylinder of the device, covers a maximum of 50% of the internal surface of the device. device, (according to the shape of the lamp or fluorescent tube), and which, in turn, covers up to 96% of the surface of the lamp or fluorescent tube, without having any point of physical contact with them, and being separated by a minimum distance of 0.50 mm, not beyond the optical focus, in relation to the lamp or fluorescent tube, and the whole device being without any ground connection, with the exception of the edges of the contacting lids with the lamp that closes the ends of the device.

2. - A device for optimizing the production of visible light, according to claim 1, characterized in that additionally a reactor or ballast is used to depress the power of the lamp and achieve a minimum energy saving of 45%, measured in watts, normalizing the luminous flux with the original luminous power of the lamp alone, without the device.

3. - A device for optimizing the production of visible light, according to claim 1, characterized in that the position of the device with respect to the lamp or fluorescent tube is asymmetric or off-center.

4. - A device for optimizing the production of visible light, in accordance with claims 1 and 3, characterized in that its internal components can rotate axially with respect to the fluorescent tube or lamp, up to 360 degrees according to the shape of the lamp or tube fluorescent. EXTRACT OF THE INVENTION This invention is essentially a device for optimizing the production of visible light from sources generating ultraviolet radiation by the action of an electric field produced, which when applied to a lamp or fluorescent tube in operation, allows an electric field to be manifested in an ionized cavity, which causes an important opposition and difficulty to the energetic dispersion that lamps or fluorescent tubes usually lose through the external glass wall in ultraviolet radiation, with which a greater efficiency is achieved in the conversion equation of ultraviolet radiation in visible light, which makes this device an important tool for saving energy. EXTRACT OF THE INVENTION This invention is essentially a device for optimizing the production of visible light from sources generating ultraviolet radiation by the action of an electric field produced, which when applied to a lamp or fluorescent tube in operation, allows an electric field to be manifested in an ionized cavity, which causes an important opposition and difficulty to the energetic dispersion that lamps or fluorescent tubes usually lose through the external glass wall in ultraviolet radiation, which achieves a greater efficiency in the conversion equation of ultraviolet radiation in visible light, which makes this device an important tool for saving energy.