Patent ID: 6988923

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a fluorescent lamp comprising the steps of: arranging a pair of lead wires between a holding block provided with two lead-wire grooves for grasping the pair of lead wires and an auxiliary holding block provided with grooves corresponding to the two-lead wire grooves in such a manner that both end portions of each of the pair of lead wires protrude out of the lead-wire grooves, whereby the pair of lead wires is supported to be sandwiched and to be fixed therebetween; attaching an electrode to tip ends of the protruding lead wires; inserting the lead wires that hold the electrode by grasping the same and protrude out of the holding block into an end portion of a glass tube for a fluorescent lamp, an inner surface of the glass tube being coated with a phosphor; applying heat in the vicinity of the end portion of the glass tube so as to pinch-seal the lead wires to the glass tube; and detaching the holding block and the auxiliary holding block, wherein the holding block and the auxiliary holding block grasp an exhaust tube, and the exhaust tube is integrated with the glass tube during the step of anplying heat.