US4633127A
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Electric lamp having a strongly colored lamp envelope
Assignee: US Philips Corp
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Filing: 1984-01-25
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Granted: 1986-12-30
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Expires: 2004-01-25
Abstract
Abstract The lamp envelope of the electric lamp is coated at the inner surface with an electrostatically applied light-scattering pigmented powder layer. The powder layer comprises at least a cadmium-containing pigment and further a cadmium-free pigment for example in approximately equal part by weight. Although cadmium-free pigments alone cannot give lamps the desired color properties, it has been found that they are capable of replacing cadmium-containing pigments in the powder layer up to a high percentage by weight.
Inventors
- 👤 Johannes H. H. Beurskens
- 👤 Christiaan Prozee
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 11:28
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01K; H01K1/00; H01K1/28; H01K1/32
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
98 words
An electric lamp having the same apparent color under incident as with transmitted light, comprising a glass lamp envelope sealed in a vacuum-tight manner, a light source arranged within said envelope, and a light-scattering pigmented powder layer, comprising at least one cadmium compound, electrostatically applied to the inner surface of said envelope, characterized in that said powder layer further comprises as an effective part of the pigment a cadmium-free compound which has the same color as said cadmium compound, and which has insufficient coloring power by itself to produce the same color for incident as for transmitted light.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
98 words
An electric lamp having the same apparent color under incident as with transmitted light, comprising a glass lamp envelope sealed in a vacuum-tight manner, a light source arranged within said envelope, and a light-scattering pigmented powder layer, comprising at least one cadmium compound, electrostatically applied to the inner surface of said envelope, characterized in that said powder layer further comprises as an effective part of the pigment a cadmium-free compound which has the same color as said cadmium compound, and which has insufficient coloring power by itself to produce the same color for incident as for transmitted light.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
23 words
A lamp as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said cadmium-free pigment compound constitutes approximately 20% by weight of said powder layer.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
29 words
A lamp as claimed in claim 1, comprising an amount by weight of said cadmium-free pigment compound as least equal to the amount by weight of said cadmium compound.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
A lamp as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said cadmium-free compound and said cadmium compound each constitute approximately 20% by weight of said powder layer.
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