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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1977
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph C Osterhout, Bloomington, IN (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ; H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
313325 ; 313326 ; 3132311 ; 315 35 ; 361117 ;
Abstract
A spark gap assembly of a stack of insulating plates which have on one surface thereof a pair of electrodes preassembled and affixed thereto with a defined spark gap therebetween and a piece of ionizing material disposed on and affixed to each of the plates between the pair of electrodes. The plates are stacked with mating surfaces joined together and with a center plate bearing no electrodes that is joined with mating surfaces of each of two symmetrical groups of electrode bearing plates, and an electromagnetic coil is disposed around the periphery of the center plate.