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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2006
William Ray Cravey, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Randy D. Curry, Columbia, MO (US);
Kenneth Fox Mcdonald, Columbia, MI (US);
Glenn A. Anderson, St. Charles, MO (US);
Richard Sears, Livermore, CA (US);
William Ray Cravey, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Randy D. Curry, Columbia, MO (US);
Kenneth Fox McDonald, Columbia, MI (US);
Glenn A. Anderson, St. Charles, MO (US);
Richard Sears, Livermore, CA (US);
Alpha-Omega Power Technologies Ltd. Co., Albuquerque, NM (US);
The Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (US);
The Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for switching high power at high repetition rates. The apparatus is preferably a switch utilizing a pressurized flowing dielectric. The pressurized dielectric suppresses growth of dielectric breakdown byproducts, such as large bubbles and breakdown contamination, enabling lower dielectric flow rates to remove the byproducts. In addition to the advantage of lower flow rates, and thus smaller and lighter pumping means, the switch can switch high energies (up to megajoules) at fast repetition rates, up to thousands of pulses per second. The switch is preferably triggered to reduce jitter. The switch can also be used to remove water from oil.