US3497767A - Constant intensity monochromatic light source - Google Patents
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- US3497767A US3497767A US629512A US3497767DA US3497767A US 3497767 A US3497767 A US 3497767A US 629512 A US629512 A US 629512A US 3497767D A US3497767D A US 3497767DA US 3497767 A US3497767 A US 3497767A
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
- H05B41/00—Circuit arrangements or apparatus for igniting or operating discharge lamps
- H05B41/14—Circuit arrangements
- H05B41/24—Circuit arrangements in which the lamp is fed by high frequency ac, or with separate oscillator frequency
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
- H01J65/00—Lamps without any electrode inside the vessel; Lamps with at least one main electrode outside the vessel
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
- H01J65/00—Lamps without any electrode inside the vessel; Lamps with at least one main electrode outside the vessel
- H01J65/04—Lamps in which a gas filling is excited to luminesce by an external electromagnetic field or by external corpuscular radiation, e.g. for indicating plasma display panels
- H01J65/042—Lamps in which a gas filling is excited to luminesce by an external electromagnetic field or by external corpuscular radiation, e.g. for indicating plasma display panels by an external electromagnetic field
- H01J65/048—Lamps in which a gas filling is excited to luminesce by an external electromagnetic field or by external corpuscular radiation, e.g. for indicating plasma display panels by an external electromagnetic field the field being produced by using an excitation coil
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- the ionization is produced by an excitation device, formed, for example, by an assembly of coils surrounding the vessel and wherein a high-frequency current flows providing a high-frequency magnetic filed inside the vessel.
- the energy required in the cold state to strike the discharge in the neutral gas is generally very much higher than that required for maintaining the ionization of the vapour of an alkali metal when the optimum operating temperature has been reached.
- the nominal power of a generator supplying the high-frequency current to the excitation device has to be much higher than that necessary for maintaining the ionization of the vapour of an alkali metal.
- the impedance caused by the excitation device associated with the vessel containing the plasma is not constant, and the generator contains therefore circuits for limiting the power supplied by it.
- a source of monochromatic light com-prising: a bulb, filled with xenon and containing an alkali element; and means for submitting said bulb to a high-frequency ionization field.
- the drawing shows a closed envelope, for example, a glass tube 1, containing a mixture 2 of a neutral gas and an alkali metal vapour.
- the two ends of the tube are surrounded by two identical windings 3 and 4, connected in series through a capacitor 5, whilst the other end of each of these windings is grounded at 23 by means of conductors 20 and 21.
- the assembly of the coils 3 and 4 and of the capacitor 5, forms an oscillating circuit, the advantages of which have been described in the United States Patent 3,230,422.
- the tube 1 contains an alkali metal in the solid state and xenon, which later requires an energy for starting the high-frequency discharge of the same order of magnitude as that necessary for maintaining the ionization of the alkali metal vapour.
- the oscillating circuit comprises taps 7 and 8, located, respectively, on the windings 3 and 4, and is supplied by a high-frequency generator 26 between the tap 7 and earth 23.
- the earth 23 may be formed, for example, by a brass plate, on which are wound flat heating resistances.
- the assembly consisting of the glass tube 1, equipped with the oscillating circuit and of the earth 23, is placed into a thermostatically controlled chamber 25.
- the generator 26 comprises a transistor 11 whose collector. 22 is connected through a choke coil 13, on the one hand to an output 19 of a DC. source, whose other output is grounded, and on the other hand to the earth 6 through a bypass capacitor 12.
- the emitter 27 of the transistor 11 is connected to the tap 7 of the coil 3.
- the base 14 of the transistor 11 is connected on the one hand to the tap 8 of the coil 4 of the oscillating circuit through reactance coil 9 in series with a capacitor 10, and on the other hand to a common point 24 of an impedance bridge through a reactance 15.
- the said impedance bridge comprises a resistor 18 connected between the output 19 of the DC. source and the point 24. This point 24 is connected to earth 6 via an assembly, consisting of a resistor 17 connected in parallel with a capacitor 16.
- the said generator and the said oscillating circuit form an oscillator whose feedback loop is a dipole, comprising a reactance 9 in series with the capacitor 10.
- this reactance 9 in the feedback loop makes it possible to regulate the phase shift produced by this dipole and facilitates electrical adjustments, for example, the high-frequency energy supplied to the excitation device associated with the tube 1.
- xenon makes it possible to obtain the striking of the light source in the cold state with the same amount of high-frequency energy as that necessary for maintaining the discharge, in the alkali plasma at the optimum working temperature.
- the impedances offered by the xenon and by the alkali plasma are of the same order of magnitude.
- the load formed by the oscillating circuit surrounding the tube which contains xenon and the vapour of an alkali metal is always perfectly matched to the exciting generator, for all discharge conditions.
- the electrical adjustment of this matching is less critical than in any other known solution.
- This feature of the invention makes it possible to use a generator of particularly simple construction, which does not comprise power limiting circuits and is formed only of a power oscillator with a single amplifier stage, represented by the transistor 11.
- the striking of cold xenon may be produced with a high-frequency energy of 0.6 watt.
- the high power energy is adjusted at 1.5 watts. Taking into account an efficiency of the oscillator of about 50 percent, the overall consumption of the arrangement is 35 watts.
- an additional energy is supplied by the heating resistors surrounding the plate of the earth 23. This heating is obtained by means of a direct current flowing through these wound heating resistors, which are so arranged that no parasitic fields are created.
- the calories are conducted towards the tube by thermal conduction of the turns of the excitation coils 3 and 4 which are connected to the earthing plate 23 by wires 20 and 21.
- a source of constant intensity monochromatic light comprising: a bulb filled with xenon and containing an alkali element; and means for submitting said bulb to a constant high-frequency electromagnetic ionization field.
- said bulb is an elongated bulb having a first and a second end; said means comprising a tuned circuit, formed of a first and a second coil respectively surrounding said bulb near said ends, and of a capacitor interposed between said coils; said coils being grounded at said ends and respectively comprising a first and a second tap.
- said amplifying means comprise a bipolar transistor having an emitter, a base, and a collector; said collector being grounded, said emitter being connected to said first tap and said base being coupled to said second tap.
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Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR57622A FR1485625A (fr) | 1966-04-14 | 1966-04-14 | Nouvelle source de lumière monochromatique d'intensité constante |
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US3497767A true US3497767A (en) | 1970-02-24 |
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US629512A Expired - Lifetime US3497767A (en) | 1966-04-14 | 1967-04-10 | Constant intensity monochromatic light source |
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US (1) | US3497767A (fr) |
FR (1) | FR1485625A (fr) |
GB (1) | GB1154274A (fr) |
NL (1) | NL6705128A (fr) |
Cited By (3)
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US4053814A (en) * | 1976-07-14 | 1977-10-11 | Gte Laboratories Incorporated | Continuous automatic starting assist uv circuit for microwave powered electrodeless lamps |
US5300860A (en) * | 1992-10-16 | 1994-04-05 | Gte Products Corporation | Capacitively coupled RF fluorescent lamp with RF magnetic enhancement |
WO2005124298A1 (fr) * | 2004-06-22 | 2005-12-29 | William Howard Considine | Ameliorations apportees a des sources lumineuses de spectrophotometres |
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DE3617110A1 (de) * | 1986-05-21 | 1987-11-26 | Leybold Heraeus Gmbh & Co Kg | Lampe fuer die erzeugung von gas-resonanzstrahlungen |
DE4120730C2 (de) * | 1991-06-24 | 1995-11-23 | Heraeus Noblelight Gmbh | Elektrodenlose Niederdruck-Entladungslampe |
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US2031198A (en) * | 1932-04-23 | 1936-02-18 | Rca Corp | Photophone |
GB965955A (en) * | 1961-05-29 | 1964-08-06 | Philips Electrical Ind Ltd | Improvements in ignition and operating circuit arrangements for discharge tubes |
US3230422A (en) * | 1962-07-31 | 1966-01-18 | Csf | Constant intensity sources of monochromatic light |
US3287601A (en) * | 1963-12-18 | 1966-11-22 | Sylvania Electric Prod | Two-lamp mercury ballast |
US3302095A (en) * | 1963-08-16 | 1967-01-31 | Laurence W Bell | Direct current to alternating current converter |
US3311775A (en) * | 1963-08-27 | 1967-03-28 | Gtc Kk | Gaseous discharge lamp with stabilizing arrangement |
US3368107A (en) * | 1965-05-17 | 1968-02-06 | Microdot Inc | Oscillator circuit |
US3389298A (en) * | 1965-07-16 | 1968-06-18 | Microdot Inc | Single-transistor flasher circuit |
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- 1967-04-10 US US629512A patent/US3497767A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1967-04-12 GB GB06894/67A patent/GB1154274A/en not_active Expired
- 1967-04-12 NL NL6705128A patent/NL6705128A/xx unknown
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Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2031198A (en) * | 1932-04-23 | 1936-02-18 | Rca Corp | Photophone |
GB965955A (en) * | 1961-05-29 | 1964-08-06 | Philips Electrical Ind Ltd | Improvements in ignition and operating circuit arrangements for discharge tubes |
US3230422A (en) * | 1962-07-31 | 1966-01-18 | Csf | Constant intensity sources of monochromatic light |
US3302095A (en) * | 1963-08-16 | 1967-01-31 | Laurence W Bell | Direct current to alternating current converter |
US3311775A (en) * | 1963-08-27 | 1967-03-28 | Gtc Kk | Gaseous discharge lamp with stabilizing arrangement |
US3287601A (en) * | 1963-12-18 | 1966-11-22 | Sylvania Electric Prod | Two-lamp mercury ballast |
US3368107A (en) * | 1965-05-17 | 1968-02-06 | Microdot Inc | Oscillator circuit |
US3389298A (en) * | 1965-07-16 | 1968-06-18 | Microdot Inc | Single-transistor flasher circuit |
Cited By (3)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US4053814A (en) * | 1976-07-14 | 1977-10-11 | Gte Laboratories Incorporated | Continuous automatic starting assist uv circuit for microwave powered electrodeless lamps |
US5300860A (en) * | 1992-10-16 | 1994-04-05 | Gte Products Corporation | Capacitively coupled RF fluorescent lamp with RF magnetic enhancement |
WO2005124298A1 (fr) * | 2004-06-22 | 2005-12-29 | William Howard Considine | Ameliorations apportees a des sources lumineuses de spectrophotometres |
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NL6705128A (fr) | 1967-10-16 |
GB1154274A (en) | 1969-06-04 |
FR1485625A (fr) | 1967-06-23 |
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