US4017758A
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Incandescent lamp with infrared filter
Assignee: US Philips Corp
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Filing: 1975-03-28
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Granted: 1977-04-12
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Expires: 1995-03-28
Abstract
Abstract The thermal radiation which is emitted by an electric incandescent lamp is eliminated according to the invention by providing an incandescent lamp with a filter which transmits visible light and which reflects infrared radiation, which filter consists of an interference filter and a heavily doped metal oxide filter which is disposed at the side of the interference filter which is remote from the filament body.
Inventors
- 👤 Friedrich Hermann Raymund Almer
- 👤 Heiner Kostlin
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-24 16:16
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01K; H01K1/00; H01K1/28; H01K1/34; H01K1/02; H01K1/14; H01K1/32; H01K1/325; Y; Y02; Y02B; Y02B20/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
75 words
An electric incandescent lamp which comprises a filament body, a lamp envelope, a gas filling and a filter which is transparent to visible light and which reflects infrared radiation, said filter, being transparent to visible light and reflecting infrared radiation, comprise an interference filter and a heavily doped metal oxide filter with a plasma wavelength smaller than 1.4μum, which is disposed at the side of said interference filter which is remote from the filament body.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
75 words
An electric incandescent lamp which comprises a filament body, a lamp envelope, a gas filling and a filter which is transparent to visible light and which reflects infrared radiation, said filter, being transparent to visible light and reflecting infrared radiation, comprise an interference filter and a heavily doped metal oxide filter with a plasma wavelength smaller than 1.4μum, which is disposed at the side of said interference filter which is remote from the filament body.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
26 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the filament body is disposed in the optical centre of the filter which reflects infrared radiation.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
56 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in claim 1 including a heavily doped metal oxide filter indium oxide which is doped with at least 7, at. per cent of tin calculated for indium, which has a free-electron density of at least 10 21 cm - 3 , and a layer thickness of between 0.2 and 0.5μum.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
52 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed claim 1 wherein the interference filter consists of at least 3 layer pairs, each consisting of a transparent layer of low refractive index and a transparent layer of high refractive index and that the wavelength at which reflection is a maximum lies between 0.7 and 1.2.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
71 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed claim 1 wherein the interference filter consists two stacks, of which one stack comprises one or more layer pairs with a maximum reflection between 0.7 and 0.9μum and the other stack comprises one or more layer pairs with a maximum reflection between 0.9 and 1.3μum, each layer pair consisting of a transparent layer of low refractive index and a transparent layer of high refractive index.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
20 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in claim 5, wherein the two stacks of the interference filter are spatially separated.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
30 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in claim 1 wherein the heavily doped metal oxide filter and the interference filter are separated by an adaptation layer of low refractive index.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
36 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lamp comprises a double-wall lamp envelope and that the interference filter and the heavily doped metal oxide filter are both disposed at the outer wall.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
23 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in Claim 8, wherein the two filters are disposed at the inner side of the outer wall.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
19 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lamp envelope and the filament body are cylindrical.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
20 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in claim 10, wherein the lamp comprises a total reflector near the end faces.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
84 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in claim 1 wherein the lamp envelope has an oblong wall portion which is provided with infrared filters, which portion adjoins an elliptically or parabolically curved reflecting wall portion in such a way that the major axis of the reflecting wall parabola perpendicularly intersects the first wall portion, which lamp envelope is closed at the ends by reflecting wall portions, and that the filament body is shaped in accordance with the focal line of the curved wall portion.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
22 words
An electric incandescent lamp as claimed in Claim 12, wherein the lamp envelope is double-walled and that the inner wall is cylindrical.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
72 words
An electric incandescent lamp is claimed claim 1 wherein the lamp envelope has a rotation-symmetrical, elliptically or parabolically curved reflecting wall portion, which adjoins a wall portion which is provided with infrared reflecting filters in such a way that the (major) axis of the reflecting wall portion perpendicularly intersects the wall portion which is provided with filters, and that the filament body is disposed in the focus of the reflecting wall portion.
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