Abstract: The invention relates to an electric lamp, comprising a base (3) having at least two V-shaped fixing plates (5; 6) with a first (5a, 6a) and a second elastic V-shaped limb (5b; 6b). The ends of the first V-shaped limb (5a, 6a) are formed on the base (3). The first V-shaped limb (5a; 6a) forms a location (7) to accommodate a tappet-like holder or connector part and the ends of the second V-shaped limb (5b; 6b) arm configured as free ends. The inventive lamp can be used in a sealed headlight of a motor vehicle and on a carrier plate fitted with several lamp holders and forming part of the tail lights of a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A first lamp base assembly is provided which includes two separate base components. The first base component is attachable to a lamp via a lamp retainer and to the second base component. The second base component is attachable to the first base component and to a connector. The first component includes a retainer clamp to the lamp. The retainer includes two parallel folded back walls. The retainer is then coupled to outward facing spring arms that slip behind the parallel walls. The retainer and spring arms are adjusted with in plane shifts, including rotations with respect to each other thereby providing final lamp adjustments. The walls and the spring arms are then welded with out pressing directly on the lamp. The spring arms may be further formed with heat conduction resistant slots. A lamp including the foregoing lamp base assemblies is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a miniature incandescent lamp which is provided for mounting on a printed circuit board. According to the invention, the base contacts (7) have a plane contact surface (7a) for soldering onto a printed circuit board, a section (7b, 7c, 7d) which is constructed like tongs and serves to anchor the base contact (7) in the lamp base, and a hookshaped section (7e) into which one end of a supply lead (5) guided out of the lamp bulb (1) is inserted, and to which said supply lead (5) is welded.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric lamp, provided with a metal-plastic cap, for a motor vehicle headlight, which has a pressing-on spring (100) which is arranged laterally on the lamp cap and serves to mount the lamp in the reflector opening, constructed as lamp holder, of the headlight. The lamp cap has a metal holder part for the lamp bulb, a metal annular carrier sleeve (14b) connected thereto, and a plastic cap part (15) in which the carrier sleeve (14b) is anchored. According to the invention, the annular carrier sleeve (14b) has two inwardly angled lugs (14d) between which the pressing-on spring (100) is arranged with a clamping fit, and which are crossed with the ends (104a) of the pressing-on spring (100).

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric lamp for a motor vehicle headlight. The lamp is equipped with an adjustment ring (4) which has at least three bearing points (4a) which are arranged in a common plane oriented perpendicularly with respect to the axis of the adjustment ring (4). Along its inner circumferential surface, the adjustment ring (4) has at least three contact points (8a) with the lamp cap (1), in which points the adjustment ring (4) is fixed to the lamp cap (1).

Abstract: A first lamp base assembly is provided which includes two separate base components. The first base component is attachable to a lamp via a lamp retainer and to the second base component. The second base component is attachable to the first base component and to a connector. The second base component may be a straight base component or an angled base component. Since either one of the second base components may be attached to the first base component, an adjustable lamp base assembly is provided which may be assembled as a straight or an angled lamp base. A second lamp base assembly is provided which includes a base which is attachable to a connector and one of various differently configured lamp attachment members, such attachment members being adapted to be attachable to a lamp via a lamp retainer. Since various lamp attachment members may be attached to the base, an adjustable lamp base assembly is provided which may be adapted for use with different lamps.

Abstract: A lamp housing assembly is provided wherein clips secured to a lens engage the walls of a trough provided about the periphery of a lamp housing to hold the lens in place relative to the lamp housing until a volume of glue which has been provided within the trough to bond the lens to the trough is cured. Subsequent to curing, the clips remain in place buried within the glue thereby providing an aesthetically pleasing lamp housing assembly. A method for assembling such a lamp housing assembly is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlight lamp having a metal-plastic cap whose electric connections are constructed as contact lugs (16, 17). According to the invention, the two contact lugs (16, 17) in each case have a groove (16c, 17c) in which in each case a supply lead wire (12, 13) which is guided out of the lamp bulb is fixed to the corresponding contact lug (16, 17) by a welded joint. Furthermore, the contact lugs (16, 17) are equipped with means (16f, 17f) for threading the supply lead wires (12, 13) into the respective groove (16c, 17c) and the lamp cap has at least one cut-out (18) which serves the purpose of carrying out the welding of the supply lead wires (12, 13), arranged in the grooves (16c, 17c), to the contact lugs (16, 17).

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric lamp, the cap (3) of which has at least two resilient tabs (8), which are each provided with a latching lug (8a), and an attachment ring (6), which is mounted so that it can rotate about its ring axis, the tabs (8) bearing against the inside of the attachment ring (6) with a clamping fit, and the inside having wall areas which are at different distances from the ring axis. By rotation of the attachment ring (6), pressure is exerted on the tabs (8) and the latching connection of the latching lugs (8a) in the lamp holder is released.

Abstract: The reflector lamp has a lamp support (10) which permanently connects the bulb (3) to the reflector neck (7). To this end, the lamp support has a clamping device (23) which cooperates with a web (11) on the reflector neck.

Abstract: A lamp assembly is provided which includes a lamp such as an arc tube sealed within a sleeve which is attached to a pair of retainer members which are coupled to a base component. The sleeve includes a circumferential groove and the retainer members include curved detents. The retainer members are attached to the sleeve by causing the detents to engage the surface of the groove and mate therewith, the two retainer members being welded together. Respective segments of the retainer members are tensioned relative to a mounting portion of the base component and attached thereto.

Abstract: A modular lamp assembly and method of assembling same is provided. The modular lamp assembly includes a lamp/ballast subassembly and a reflector which is positioned in a space provided between the lamp and the ballast. The reflector is unassembled in relation to the lamp and the ballast so that if the lamp or ballast are defective, the reflector may be readily removed from the subassembly and placed between a lamp and ballast of a replacement subassembly. The lamp/ballast subassembly, including the reflector, are held in place within a housing by sandwiching the ballast and the reflector between interior surfaces of the housing and a housing cover which contains an opening aligned with the lamp.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pulse starting device and a starting method for a discharge lamp, in particular a high-pressure discharge lamp for a motor vehicle headlamp. The starting device has a transformer which has either two primary windings which are connected in parallel and are both coupled inductively to the at least one secondary winding, or instead has a primary winding which consists of a wide metal strip and is wound, separated by an electric insulation, over the at least one secondary winding. The starting device according to the invention has a compact design which permits the complete starting device to be accommodated in the lamp cap.

Abstract: The arc of an alternating current discharge lamp may be magnetically straightened by including a small direct current component to the lamp current. The lamp may then be operated substantially as an alternating current lamp, but with out the need to synchronize the magnetic field with the alternating lamp current. The minor inclusion of the direct current component enables the lamp to be magnetically deflected effectively for arc straightening, optical positioning of the arc, offset positioning from the envelope wall to preserve lamp life, and other useful functions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a unit pack for a linear lamp. The pack is desig as a single-piece tubular folding box. It has four side walls (10, 11, 12, 13) which form a tubular sleeve of trapezoidal cross section. At its top end, the folding box is provided with an integrally formed hanging tab (15).

Abstract: A method for producing helically wound filament elements, and filament elnts produced according to this method. The method is distinguished in that a thermal treatment of the incandescent wire at temperatures of over 1200.degree. C. takes place already before the winding of the incandescent wire, so that, after separation, the coil springs open and can easily be detached from the core wire.

Abstract: An electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp with a lamp fill material including gallium iodide has been found to be more efficient in generating light in general, and more efficient in generating blue light. The very small size of the lamp, in combination with the high intensity in a relatively narrow blue spectral range make the lamp particularly useful in supplying blue light to a fiber optic. The relative efficiency of the lamp increases its value. In combination, the lamp provides a useful, efficient source of blue light as an input source for optical fiber, and other systems for medical and other processes using blue light as a process element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a discharge lamp whose discharge vessel (1) is pided with a light-transmitting, electrically conductive layer (4) in order to improve the electromagnetic compatibility of the lamp when it is operated from an electronic operating unit. The light-transmitting, electrically conductive layer (4) is advantageously connected to the circuitry-internal ground potential of the operating unit.

Abstract: A lamp such as a PAR lamp is provided wherein a metal base shell is attached to a neck portion of a reflector by three or more peens which extend into respective peen holes. In a preferred embodiment, respective of the peen holes are located (a) at opposite regions of the neck portion and (b) on opposite sides of a medial plane of the neck portion. The peen holes of such embodiment extend into the neck portion in a direction other than radially towards the axis which forms the centerline of the neck portion.

Abstract: A folding carton for an elongated object, such as a double ended electric mp is disclosed. The carton includes cut out retentions formed in the end flaps of the carton to position the elongated object.