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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1989
Filed:
May. 20, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roger A Dougal, Columbia, SC (US);
Assignee:
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ; H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
328 90 ; 328 65 ; 328221 ; 307314 ; 315289 ;
Abstract
A vacuum gap switch is closely coupled with a saturable inductor, providing the high voltage standoff triggering range, and very fast recovery of a vacuum switch, without the drawbacks of poor turn-on performance, large jitter, and high power dissipation usually seen in vacuum gap switches.