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US 4,054,813 AGranted
Triggered spark-gap discharger
AssigneeCompagnie Generale d'Electricite
InventorsClaude Agnoux, Rene Destree
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Abstract
The invention relates to a spark-gap discharger triggered in a gas. The triggering discharge takes place on the edge of a thin dielectric sheet between two thin metal layers adhering to opposite surfaces of the dielectric sheet. Application to the reduction of the manufacturing cost and to the increase in triggering precision in terms of time of a spark-gap discharger.
Claims13
A triggered spark-gap discharger comprising:
- two, spaced principal electrodes for establishing a DC electric voltage therebetween;
- two triggering electrodes insulated from each other by a thin dielectric sheet and disposed near the principal electrodes so that an electric triggering discharge taking place between these triggering electrodes causes a principal energy discharge between the two principal electrodes which is larger than that of the triggering discharge;
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- wherein said two triggering electrodes are constituted respectively by the edges of the two thin metal layers adhering to opposed surfaces of said thin dielectric sheet, said assembly being formed by these two layers and said dielectric sheet forming a thin metallized sheet and disposed so that said triggering discharge is produced on one of its edges between the two metal layers around the bare surface of the dielectric sheet.
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