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US2214511A
US2214511A US33411140A US2214511A US 2214511 A US2214511 A US 2214511A US 33411140 A US33411140 A US 33411140A US 2214511 A US2214511 A US 2214511A
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    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J17/00Gas-filled discharge tubes with solid cathode
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    • H01J17/22Means for obtaining or maintaining the desired pressure within the tube
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    • HELECTRICITY
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    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J9/00Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture, installation, removal, maintenance of electric discharge tubes, discharge lamps, or parts thereof; Recovery of material from discharge tubes or lamps
    • H01J9/38Exhausting, degassing, filling, or cleaning vessels
    • H01J9/395Filling vessels
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • a direct or alternating current can be used
  • the invention relates to electron tubes, and especially to such tubes which operate with the gas filling in order to decrease the space charge.
  • An object of the invention is to maintain a 5 constant pressure of gas in the discharge space of a gaseous discharge device.
  • One of the problems with gas discharge devices is the constant maintaining of the desired gas pressure.
  • the gas is subject to clean-up and absorption by the various interior parts of the device, especially the glass walls. For this reason the tube may be originally designed to operate upon the occurrence of a given condition, and then fail because the gas pressure has changed.
  • the invention in particular, is an improvement over the invention of utilizing a glow discharge on a thin metallic partition, for example, of iron, in a storage container for the gas to pump through from this storage container.
  • my invention provides means for utilizing gases with large molecular weights, and having a mechanically stronger partition than is possible with the thin metallic partition of iron, for example.
  • the invention contemplates having a storage container with a porous partition which is coated with a thin metal coating on the side facing the storage container.
  • a glow discharge is started in the storage container in such a way that the metal coating serves at least part of the time as a cathode or is brought to 0 cathode potential.
  • the single figure of the drawing illustrates the operation of the process according to the invention.
  • the low pressure discharge space I contains many suitable electrodes, such as the anode,
  • This portion of the vessel is partitioned off from the gas storage chamber 2 by a porous partition '3, which may, for example, be of ceramic material, such as porcelain.
  • a metal film or coating 4 is preferably on the side of the porous partition 3, facing the storage space 2. This metal coating may be of iron, nickel, gold or other suitable metals, and may be deposited on the porous partition by evaporation.
  • the metal coating discharge is started in the A glow in'the storage and the metal ions are accelerated to the cathode 4 andpenetrate through it.
  • the gas ions are neutralized porous partition 3 into and pass through the the evacuated space I.
  • the partition 3 gives great strength to the arrangement so that the metal coating can be made very thin.
  • the metal-coating 4 can be 10- cm. thick.
  • metal coating can, of course, be made thicker
  • An advantageous form of the invention is to utilize a the metal coating, ing is protected. ode for the glow ing has approximately discharge,
  • the grid can be used as a oathand the metal coatotential of the cathode or a somewhat higher potential.
  • the porous partition is ceramic material, for example, the material known under the name of and also some other porous preferably made of chamotte and Steatite materials which are permeable to gas, for example, Sohotts glass filters and the like.
  • a discharge device comprising a vacuumtight container, a cooperating anode and cathode forming a discharge space therebetween within said container, a porous wall partitioning a portion of said container, a gaseous atmosphere in said portion, a metallic coating on said porous wall for normally preventing said gaseous atmosphere from passing through said wall, and electrode means in said portion for passing gas through said wall when desired.
  • a discharge device comprising a container, a porous partition and a metallic coating thereon normally resistant to gas transfer, said porous partition and metallic coating dividing the con-' tainer into compartments, a gas reservoir in a first compartment, an electrode in said first compartment for cooperating with said metallic coating on said Wall to form between, said metallic coating being permeable for gas because of the discharge in said space, a
  • a discharge device comprising a container, a porous wall and a metallic coating on said wall dividing said container into two compartments, a gaseous medium at a higher pressure in one compartment than in the other compartment,

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Sept. 10, 1940. H. SCHNITGER G-AS DISCHARGE DEVICE Filed May 9, 1940 INVENTOR Hf/PBZ/FF arm /r552 BY m L ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 10, 1940 Herbert Schnitger, Berlin-tspandau, Germany, assignor to Patentverwertungsgesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung Hermes, Berlin; Ger-1 many, a corporation of Germany Applic ation May 9, 1940, serial No 324,111
In Germany March 27, 1939 3Claims. (012504275) A direct or alternating current can be used The invention relates to electron tubes, and especially to such tubes which operate with the gas filling in order to decrease the space charge.
An object of the invention is to maintain a 5 constant pressure of gas in the discharge space of a gaseous discharge device.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description and drawing, in which the figure illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention.
One of the problems with gas discharge devices, especially those utilizing a very low pressure of gas, is the constant maintaining of the desired gas pressure. The gas is subject to clean-up and absorption by the various interior parts of the device, especially the glass walls. For this reason the tube may be originally designed to operate upon the occurrence of a given condition, and then fail because the gas pressure has changed.
It is an object of this invention to provide means for constantly maintaining a fixed pressure of gas in the discharge path of such a tube. The invention in particular, is an improvement over the invention of utilizing a glow discharge on a thin metallic partition, for example, of iron, in a storage container for the gas to pump through from this storage container.
In particular, my invention provides means for utilizing gases with large molecular weights, and having a mechanically stronger partition than is possible with the thin metallic partition of iron, for example.
In particular, the invention contemplates having a storage container with a porous partition which is coated with a thin metal coating on the side facing the storage container. A glow discharge is started in the storage container in such a way that the metal coating serves at least part of the time as a cathode or is brought to 0 cathode potential.
The single figure of the drawing illustrates the operation of the process according to the invention. The low pressure discharge space I contains many suitable electrodes, such as the anode,
45 cathode, and one, or a plurality, as desired, of control elements diagrammatically illustrated. This portion of the vessel is partitioned off from the gas storage chamber 2 by a porous partition '3, which may, for example, be of ceramic material, such as porcelain. A metal film or coating 4 is preferably on the side of the porous partition 3, facing the storage space 2. This metal coating may be of iron, nickel, gold or other suitable metals, and may be deposited on the porous partition by evaporation.
'coatingA. With is a cathode.
storage space and positive gas current and voltage of for starting the glow discharge 2 between the electrode 5 direct current, the metal coating discharge is started in the A glow in'the storage and the metal ions are accelerated to the cathode 4 andpenetrate through it.
The gas ions are neutralized porous partition 3 into and pass through the the evacuated space I.
The partition 3 gives great strength to the arrangement so that the metal coating can be made very thin.
The metal-coating 4 can be 10- cm. thick. The
metal coating can, of course, be made thicker,
such as the order of 10- cm.
On starting a glow discharge, the positive ions no longer enter through the whole partition,
but they remain fixed thereon. But, after neutralization of the gas ions, a higher gas pressure results inside thepartition which results in a partial diffusion of'the .gas molecules to the discharge space I.
The exact introduced into determination of the amount of gas the space I,
the glow discharge, and
is regulated by the by the duration of this discharge.
An advantageous form of the invention is to utilize a the metal coating, ing is protected. ode for the glow ing has approximately discharge,
the p The glow discharge is pally, towards the grid,v
the arrangement of metallic grid before so that the thin metal coat- The grid can be used as a oathand the metal coatotential of the cathode or a somewhat higher potential.
then extended, princibut there are still several positive ions present which hit on the surthey can enter'through the face of the metal coating with such velocity that metallic coating and the porous partition 3 .to the space I.
The porous partition is ceramic material, for example, the material known under the name of and also some other porous preferably made of chamotte and Steatite materials which are permeable to gas, for example, Sohotts glass filters and the like.
Many modifications may be made in the preferred embodiment illustrated,
and its application are within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
What is claimed:
1. A discharge device comprising a vacuumtight container, a cooperating anode and cathode forming a discharge space therebetween within said container, a porous wall partitioning a portion of said container, a gaseous atmosphere in said portion, a metallic coating on said porous wall for normally preventing said gaseous atmosphere from passing through said wall, and electrode means in said portion for passing gas through said wall when desired.
2. A discharge device comprising a container, a porous partition and a metallic coating thereon normally resistant to gas transfer, said porous partition and metallic coating dividing the con-' tainer into compartments, a gas reservoir in a first compartment, an electrode in said first compartment for cooperating with said metallic coating on said Wall to form between, said metallic coating being permeable for gas because of the discharge in said space, a
a discharge space there;
second compartment, a gaseous medium and an electrical device in said gaseous medium in said second compartment.
3. A discharge device comprising a container, a porous wall and a metallic coating on said wall dividing said container into two compartments, a gaseous medium at a higher pressure in one compartment than in the other compartment,
. an electrode in said compartment of higher pres- "sure for forming a discharge to be directed at the metallic coating on said Wall whereby gas is pumped through said coating and Wall to the other compartment, and an electrical device in the other compartment.
HERBERT SCI-INITGER.
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Cited By (4)

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US2442824A (en) * 1944-03-13 1948-06-08 Bendix Aviat Corp Radiant energy receiver
US2556855A (en) * 1946-08-30 1951-06-12 Raytheon Mfg Co Gaseous discharge device
DE969254C (en) * 1951-05-23 1958-05-14 Japan Radio Co Ltd Ventilation device for generating a high vacuum
US3255354A (en) * 1963-03-22 1966-06-07 Electronics Corp America Ultraviolet radiation detector

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2442824A (en) * 1944-03-13 1948-06-08 Bendix Aviat Corp Radiant energy receiver
US2556855A (en) * 1946-08-30 1951-06-12 Raytheon Mfg Co Gaseous discharge device
DE969254C (en) * 1951-05-23 1958-05-14 Japan Radio Co Ltd Ventilation device for generating a high vacuum
US3255354A (en) * 1963-03-22 1966-06-07 Electronics Corp America Ultraviolet radiation detector

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