High-voltage pulse generation circuit

Abstract

A high-voltage pulse generation circuit according to the present disclosure includes a direct-current power supply for outputting a direct-current voltage, a transformer including a primary winding having one end connected to a positive terminal of the direct-current power supply, an energy storage inductor connected across both ends of the primary winding of the transformer, a switching element that includes one main terminal connected to another end of the primary winding of the transformer and includes another main terminal connected to a negative terminal of the direct-current power supply, an external capacitor connected across both ends of the switching element, across the both ends of the primary winding, or across the both ends of the switching element and the both ends of the primary winding, and a control circuit configured to keep the switching element in conduction for a predetermined time and then bring the switching element into a cut-off state.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.