Abstract: A high-pressure mercury lamp including electrode assemblies and a discharge vessel (23) that is composed of: a main tube part (15) having a discharge space (13) inside; and a sealing part (17) connected to the main tube part. The electrode assemblies extend into the discharge space from and are hermetically sealed with the sealing part such that their tips face each other in the discharge space. The discharge space (13) is filled with mercury as light-emitting material, rare gas such as xenon, and halogen gas for halogen cycle. An electrode assembly is composed of an electrode part (27a), a metal foil (29a), and an external lead. The base part of an electrode inside the discharge space is provided with a liquid collecting coil (43) for holding mercury that gathers around the base part during a cooling period while lighting is off.

Abstract: A discharge lamp 50 comprises a luminous bulb 10 in which a luminous material 18 is encapsulated and a pair of electrodes 12 are arranged to be opposed to each other, and sealing parts (11a, 11b) that are formed at both ends of the luminous bulb 10 and in which metal foil structures 13 electrically connected to the pair of electrodes 12, respectively, are sealed. At least one of the metal foil structures 13 is composed of a first metal foil 13a, a second metal foil 13b and a metal bar 21 coupling both of them. At least one sealing part 11b of the sealing parts includes a cavity 20 around the position where in the sealing part the metal bar 21 is located, and at least a rare gas is encapsulated in the cavity 20.