| 摘要 |
<p>An illumination device utilizes an electrical discharge through inert gas especially neon, argon, and mercury vapor or mixtures thereof, with the discharge being contained within vitreous plates and confined within channels (2) within the plates. The channels, in combination with evacuation and gas filling means (8, 9) provide ionization chambers (11). The chambers are provided with integral electrodes with means for thermally shielding (12) the electrodes from the plates and for prevention of adhesion of the electrodes from the plates during the sealing of the plates. Special conditions between the thermal shielding and the power supplied to the electrode together with the design of the electrode assembly chamber and the infrared emissive coatings on the electrodes enable the electrodes to be contained integrally within the body of the device rather than in chambers separate from the device, and to be capable of continuous operation without craking the glass plates.</p> |
