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US 4,309,747 AGranted
High current, high voltage multiplication apparatus
AssigneeRadiation Dynamics, Inc.
InventorChester C. Thompson
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Abstract
A higher current capability is provided in a high voltage accelerator of the Dynamitron type (U.S. Pat. No. 2,875,394) by paralleling basic building blocks whereby increased current is achieved without any change in the circuits of the basic building block which are interleaved to permit parallel connection and thus current multiplication without affecting machine voltage or performance.
Claims10
A high voltage, high current accelerator power supply providing parallel circuits, comprising:
- a pair of elongated electrodes spaced apart and extending generally parallel to one another,
- a first plurality of rectifier stages disposed between said electrodes and physically arrayed serially along the elongated extension of said electrodes,
- each said rectifier stages comprising a pair of spaced apart electrodes each discposed adjacent a different one of said elongated electrodes and a plurality of series connected rectifiers extending between said spaced apart electrodes, means connecting every n.sup.th rectifier stage in a first series circuit between a low voltage terminal and a high voltage terminal with the diodes of every other stage in said first circuit being oppositely polled and where n is an integer equal to the number of parallel circuits desired,
- means connecting every (n+1).sup.th stage in a second series circuit between said low voltage terminal and said high voltage terminal with the diodes of every other stage in said second circuit being oppositely polled and the rectifiers of the lowest voltage stage having the same polling as the rectifiers of the lowest voltage stage of said first series circuit, and
- a resonant circuit including an inductance connected between said elongated electrodes.
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A high voltage, high current half wave power supply comprising:
- a pair of elongated capacitor electrodes,
- a plurality of rectifier stages each including a pair of capacitor electrodes and a plurality of rectifiers extending therebetween,
- said electrodes of each stage each being capactively coupled to a different one of said elongated electrodes,
- said electrodes of said stages being disposed physically in series along said elongated electrodes,
- a high voltage terminal,
- a low voltage terminal,
- means connecting said rectifier stages in a plurality, n, of series connected rectifier circuits extending between said low and high voltage terminals,
- each said plurality of circuits containing T/n rectifier stages where T is equal to the total number of rectifier stages provided, and
- said rectifier stages of each series circuit being interleaved with the rectifier stages of said other series circuits on a one for one basis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.