Abstract: The compact high-voltage incandescent lamp according to the invention has as a luminous element a threefold winding in the form of a double helix (4) which is formed, for its part, from a coiled-coil filament (4a-4c). It is possible in this way to implement high-voltage incandescent lamps with compact dimensions and high luminances.

Abstract: Electrical incandescent lamp, in particular a halogen incandescent lamp (4) having a lamp bulb (5) which has a coating (9) that reflects IR radiation, and having a flat luminous body (10) which defines a fictional plane of the light and is arranged inside the lamp bulb (5). The shape of the lamp bulb (5) with respect to those axes which lie in the plane of the light have no rotational symmetry, but the lamp bulb (5) in fact has a shape which differs from rotational symmetry but is matched to the flat geometry of the luminous body (10), that is to say a flattened shape, in particular the shape of an ellipsoid, whose shortest half-axis is oriented at right-angles to the fictional plane of the light of the luminous body (10).

Abstract: An electric incandescent lamp with a rotationally symmetrical lamp bulb and an IR radiation reflecting coating has an ellipsoidal partial contour. ellipsoidal partial contour of the lamp bulb is produced by an elliptical section, the semiaxis of which is oriented vertically to the longitudinal axis, i.e., vertically to the rotational axis of the lamp bulb, and is longer than the greatest radius of the lamp bulb. The length of the smallest semiaxis lies preferably in the range of R<b<R+5.multidot.w.sub.x, wherein R and w.sub.x denote the largest radius of the lamp bulb and the radius of the rotational symmetrical luminous element, respectively. The lamp is characterized by uniform back reflection of IR radiation onto the luminous element arranged centrally inside the lamp bulb, and thus by a uniform temperature distribution and increased efficiency.

Abstract: An electric filament incandescent in lamp, in particular a halogen incandent lamp (9) with a rotationally symmetrical lamp bulb (10) and I.R. radiation reflecting coating (14), has an ellipsoidal partial contour. The ellipsoidal partial contour of the lamp bulb is produced by an elliptical section, the large semiaxis, and, consequently focal axis of which is oriented vertically to the longitudinal axis, i.e. vertically to the rotational axis of the lamp bulb (10). The length of the large semiaxis (a) lies preferably in the range R<a<R+5.multidot.w.sub.r, wherein R and w.sub.r respectively stand for the greatest radius of the lamp bulb (10) and the radius of the cylindrical luminous element (15). The lamp (9) is characterized by uniform back reflection of the I.R. radiation onto the cylindrical luminous element (15) arranged centrically on-axis inside the lamp bulb (10), and thus by a regular temperature distribution, as well as by increased lamp efficiency.