Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp includes a glass housing made of a high-melting vitreous material, a pair of sealing components made of the same high-melting vitreous material and extended from the glass housing. A rare gas and a material that is solid or liquid at room temperature is sealed inside the glass housing. Electrically conductive bars are embedded in the sealing components. The air-tight seals around the electrically conductive bars are formed such that at least one metal material selected from metals and oxides of said metals is provided near the regions lying between the high-melting vitreous material and the electrically conductive bar.

Abstract: A high-frequency energy supply device has a group of side resonators which are electrically connected in a practically annular form, and supply high-frequency energy using resonant high-frequency electromagnetic fields generated in the center portion; and a plurality of high-frequency coupling part for coupling a plurality of high frequency energies propagated from a plurality of high-frequency propagation paths to said group of side resonators; wherein a plurality of high frequencies coupled to said group of side resonators from said plurality of high-frequency coupling means have phases and/or frequencies different from each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mercury-free metal halide lamp with an increased lamp operating voltage and prolonged lamp life without enclosing mercury or excessively increasing an inner pressure of an arc tube. A lamp in accordance with the present invention contains, as a content of a fill material 202, 0.04 mg of ScI3, 0.21 mg of NaI, 7 atm of Xe at room temperature, and 0.1 mg of YI3, which is an iodide of Y, Y having an ionization potential as a simple substance being 5 to 10 eV and a vapor pressure at a temperature of lamp operation being 10−5 or higher.

Abstract: In a high intensity discharge lamp, at least one of an arc bend amount and an apparent width of arc is controlled by a simple configuration at low cost. A high intensity discharge lamp system 110 has a high intensity discharge lamp 111 and an operating circuit 113 for driving the high intensity discharge lamp 111. In the high intensity discharge lamp 111, a rare gas and a filling material 136 containing a metal halide as a light generating substance are enclosed in the arc tube 121 provided with a pair of electrodes 122a and 122b. The lamp system is disposed such that the line connecting the electrodes 122a and 122b is horizontal, and by applying a magnetic field having a vertical magnetic flux thereto and by varying the frequency of alternating current for driving the high intensity discharge lamp 111, at least one of an arc bend amount and an apparent width of arc can be easily controlled.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor array includes a substrate, an electrically conductive portion, and a metal layer. The electrically conductive portion is made of one of indium tin oxide, indium oxide, and tin oxide. The electrically conductive portion and the metal layer are formed on a common surface of the substrate. The metal layer includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is made of one of aluminum and an aluminum alloy. The second layer extends on the first layer and is made of metal having an oxidization potential nobler than a reduction potential of said one of indium tin oxide, indium oxide, and tin oxide in alkaline aqueous solution.

Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp includes a glass housing made of a high-melting vitreous material, a pair of sealing components made of the same high-melting vitreous material and extended from the glass housing. A rare gas and a material that is solid or liquid at room temperature is sealed inside the glass housing. Electrically conductive bars are embedded in the sealing components. The air-tight seals around the electrically conductive bars are formed such that at least one metal material selected from metals and oxides of said metals is provided near the regions lying between the high-melting vitreous material and the electrically conductive bar.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a high pressure discharge lamp is disclosed. Oscillation in the discharge arc periphery, a problem that occurs with high frequency operation, is eliminated. A high pressure discharge lamp is operated by applying thereto a dc or rectangular wave current to which is superposed an ac component shaped by a high frequency ripple signal that has been amplitude modulated by a modulation signal for inducing instantaneous fluctuations in the power supply input to both ends of the arc gap. The ripple level is thereby temporally varied, and stable operating is possible even exceeding the ripple level at which oscillation in the arc periphery begins.

Abstract: A metal halide lamp includes an arc tube containing at least mercury and metal halide. A pair of opposed main electrodes extend in the arc tube. A lamp voltage is applied between the main electrodes. The main electrodes have respective distal ends which are spaced from each other by a predetermined distance “d”.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a high-pressure discharge lamp of the double-ended type having excellent resistance to high-pressure and wherein the internal diameter of a portion of the high-pressure discharge lamp where a light-emitting section and a side tube are adjacent can be reduced without restricting the maximum diameter of an electrode on a side where it projects into the light-emitting section. An electrode assembly 105 is arranged within an evacuated glass bulb 2 such that an end of electrode 102 where a coil 102b is wound is positioned within the light-emitting section 3. In this condition, the portion where the light-emitting section 3 and the side tube 4a (4b) are adjacent is heated by a burner 300. The internal diameter of the side tube 4a (4b) can thereby be formed with a reduced-diameter section 7, whose diameter is smaller than that of the electrode rod 102a without restricting the diameter at the location of the coil 102b.

Abstract: A fluorescent lamp operating apparatus is used for operating a fluorescent lamp, which includes a glass tube coated with a phosphor and has at least mercury sealed therein, by generating an electric field in a direction from an inner surface of the glass tube toward a center of the glass tube. The operating apparatus, for example, includes: a ballast circuit connected to the fluorescent lamp for starting the fluorescent lamp; a potential application member disposed so as to at least partially surround discharge plasma generated in the fluorescent lamp; and a potential application circuit for applying a potential to the potential application member. In such a case, the potential application circuit applies a potential to the potential application member which is higher than the potential of the discharge plasma.

Abstract: In a metal halide lamp which includes a discharge tube (2) retaining a fill of mercury and at least one metal halide added as a luminous material, an energy density of the arc discharge portion (3) represented by a product E.times.j is in the range of 70.0.ltoreq.E.times.j.ltoreq.150.0 (VA/mm.sup.3) where E=V/d, j=I/S, assuming that I is a lamp current in amperes with a lamp voltage of V volts applied between the paired discharge electrodes in a stable lighting condition of the lamp and that each of the electrodes has a tip face (1a, 1a') of which a cut area in section is S mm.sup.2 and the gap distance is d in millimeters, and thus a high luminous flux retention rate and high luminance of an arc discharge portion can be accomplished with a longer life of the lamp, suppressing a lamp voltage varying rate, and avoiding a change in color temperature, which remarkably improves additional merits when in utilization as a light source in various display apparatuses such as optical projection systems.

Abstract: Use of a side resonator group comprising a plurality of side resonators, each including both an electromagnetically inductive function section made of a substantially ringed conductive material and an electrically capacitive function section made of a gap, so arranged in a circle as to make said electrically capacitive function sections opposed to the center as high frequency energy supply means, enables a high frequency discharge to take place in a smaller space than that observed in use of a conventional cavity resonator. Besides, application of said high frequency energy supply means to a high frequency electrodeless lamp device enables high frequency energy to be effectively coupled even with a relatively small size of electrodeless discharge lamp.

Abstract: An electrodeless discharge lamp has an arc tube which seals at least rare gas and one of luminous metal and metal halide thereinto, an opening of the arc tube being vacuum-sealed with at least molten glass, and an sealing unit of the arc tube being placed outside a cavity which supplies excitation energy to make said electrodeless discharge lamp emit a light.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a high pressure discharge lamp is disclosed. Oscillation in the discharge arc periphery, a problem that occurs with high frequency operation, is eliminated. A high pressure discharge lamp is operated by applying thereto a dc or rectangular wave current to which is superposed an ac component shaped by a high frequency ripple signal that has been amplitude modulated by a modulation signal for inducing instantaneous fluctuations in the power supply input to both ends of the arc gap. The ripple level is thereby temporally varied, and stable operating is possible even when exceeding the ripple level at which oscillation in the arc periphery begins.

Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp includes an arc tube. The arc tube is supplied with electric power having a frequency at which substantially only one sound standing wave occurs in the arc tube. The sound standing wave is of a given mode, and is in a radial direction with respect to the arc tube. The given mode corresponds to, for example, a first-order mode. Preferably, the arc tube satisfies a relation as follows:(n+0.2).ltoreq.2L/D.ltoreq.(n+0.8)where "n" denotes a natural number, and "L" denotes an axial length of an interior of the arc tube and "D" denotes an inside diameter of the arc tube.

Abstract: A metal halide lamp includes a light transmitting container filled with a rare gas, a halide of indium in an amount of 0.1 mg/cc to 1.5 mg/cc, at least one halide of a rare earth element selected from terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, or thulium. The metal halide lamp has an emission spectrum distributed over the visual inspection range, a high luminous efficacy, a high color temperature, and long lifetime.

Abstract: In a quartz glass tube body for high-pressure discharge lamp, the devitrification occurs during lighting, a light flux decreases and finally the useful life ends, where the main cause of this devitrification phenomenon is reaction between a sealed substance and the quartz glass tube body. It is one object of the present invention to attain the longer useful life, for example, of a high-pressure discharge lamp by preventing such a phenomenon. According to the present invention, a coating is made up by forming one or more oxynitride layers of an element chosen from among aluminum, tantalum, niobium, vanadium, chromium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, yttrium, scandium, magnesium, silicon and lanthanum rare earth elements.

Abstract: In a quartz glass tube body for high-pressure discharge lamp, the devitrification occurs during lighting, a light flux decreases and finally the useful life ends, where the main cause of this devitrification phenomenon is reaction between a sealed substance and the quartz glass tube body. It is one object of the present invention to attain the longer useful life, for example, of a high-pressure discharge lamp by preventing such a phenomenon. According to the present invention, a coating is made up by forming one or more oxynitride layers of an element chosen from among aluminum, tantalum, niobium, vanadium, chromium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, yttrium, scandium, magnesium, silicon and lanthanum rare earth elements.

Abstract: The apparatus has a light transmitting bulb for confining a discharge therein, a fill sealed within the light transmitting bulb and including a rare gas and a metal halide emitting a continuous spectrum by molecular radiation, and a discharge excitation source for applying electrical energy to the fill and for starting and sustaining an arc discharge, and the metal halide includes one kind of halide selected from the group consisting of an indium halide, a gallium halide, and a thallium halide, or a mixture thereof, and in that the light transmitting bulb has no electrodes exposed in discharge space and further this construction utilizes the continuous spectrum of molecular radiation of the metal halide and thereby achieves high color rendering properties and high luminous efficacy simultaneously without using mercury as the fill.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of signal lines Yj (j=1-N: total signal line number N) and a plurality of scanning lines Xi (i=1-M) arranged in a matrix pattern of N.times.M, and thin film transistors for switching signal inputs between a display pixel electrode C (i, j) and signal wiring Yj, disposed to correspond to respective intersections of the signal lines and the scanning lines, and auxiliary capacitance Cadd formed in an electrically parallel relationship with the display pixel electrode C (i, j) composed of liquid crystal. The auxiliary capacitance Cadd is formed between the scanning line Xi-1 controlling the display pixel electrode C(i-1, j) at a previous stage of the display pixel electrode C (i, j) and display pixel electrode C (i, j), and disposed n such a positional relationship that the display pixel electrode C (i, j) completely covers the scanning line Xi-1 at the previous stage in a direction of its line width in terms of a cross sectional construction.