Apparatus for generating a gas discharge
AssigneeTDK Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsStefan Nettesheim, Klaus Forster
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Abstract
In an embodiment a device includes a low voltage assembly having an output contact, the low voltage assembly configured to provide a low voltage at the output contact, a high voltage assembly having an input contact and a transformer and a plug-in connection interconnecting the low voltage assembly and the high voltage assembly, wherein the plug-in connection is configured to provide an electrical contact between the output contact of the low voltage assembly and the input contact of the high voltage assembly, wherein the low voltage provided at the output contact is applied to the transformer via the input contact, wherein the transformer is configured to convert the low voltage into a high voltage, and wherein the device is configured to generate a gas discharge.
Claims19
A device comprising:
- a low voltage assembly having an output contact, the low voltage assembly configured to provide a low voltage at the output contact;
- a high voltage assembly comprising an input contact and a transformer;
- and
- a plug-in connection interconnecting the low voltage assembly and the high voltage assembly,
- wherein the plug-in connection is configured to provide an electrical contact between the output contact of the low voltage assembly and the input contact of the high voltage assembly,
- wherein the low voltage provided at the output contact is applicable to the transformer via the input contact,
- wherein the transformer is configured to convert the low voltage into a high voltage,
- wherein the device is configured to generate a gas discharge,
- wherein the high voltage assembly comprises:
- a cartridge in which the transformer is arranged and which comprises the input contact, and
- a discharge structure configured to affect an electric field generated by the high voltage produced at the transformer,
- wherein the discharge structure comprises:
- a metallization of an outer surface of the cartridge,
- a protruding element arranged on an outside of the cartridge, and
- a first conductive material,
- wherein the protruding element is needle-shaped, blade-shaped or rounded at its tip, or
- wherein the protruding element has, at an end facing away from the transformer, a wire extending perpendicularly to a longitudinal direction of the cartridge, or
- wherein the protruding element comprises bristles, at least some of the bristles comprising at least one of a second conductive material or a first insulating material.
A device comprising:
- a low voltage assembly having two output contacts, the low voltage assembly configured to provide a low voltage at the output contact;
- a high voltage assembly comprising two input contacts and a transformer;
- and
- a plug-in connection interconnecting the low voltage assembly and the high voltage assembly,
- wherein the plug-in connection is configured to:
- provide an electrical contact between the output contact of the low voltage assembly and the input contact of the high voltage assembly, and
- plug the high voltage assembly into the low voltage assembly in both orientations such that each of the output contacts is connectable to either of the two input contacts,
- wherein the low voltage provided at the output contacts is applicable to the transformer via the input contacts,
- wherein the transformer is configured to convert the low voltage into a high voltage, and
- wherein the device is configured to generate a gas discharge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.