Inverter

Claim 1

AN INVERTER COMPRISING FIRST AND SECOND LINES COUPLED TO A SOURCE OF DIRECT CURRENT, A TRANSFORMER HAVING A CORE, A PRIMARY WINDING INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND TERMINALS AND A CENTER TAP, FIRST AND SECOND TRANSISTORS EACH HAVING BASE, EMITTER, AND COLLECTOR ELECTRODES WITH THE COLLECTOR OF THE FIRST TRANSISTOR CONNECTED TO THE FIRST TERMINAL AND THE COLLECTOR OF THE SECOND TRANSISTOR CONNECTED TO THE SECOND TERMINAL, MEANS COUPLED TO THE BASE OF EACH OF THE FIRST AND SECOND TRANSISTORS FOR APPLYING SEPARATE SWITCHING SIGNALS AT SPACED INTERVALS, A FIRST SECONDARY WINDING OF THE TRANSFORMER COUPLED BETWEEN BASE AND EMITTER OF THE FIRST TRANSISTOR FOR PROVIDING BIAS, A SECONDARY WINDING OF THE TRANSFORMER COUPLED BETWEEN BASE AND EMITTER OF THE SECOND TRANSISTOR FOR PROVIDING BIAS, THE FIRST LINE BEING COUPLED TO THE EMITTER OF BOTH THE FIRST AND SECOND TRANSISTORS, A THIRD TRANSISTOR HAVING BASE, EMITTER, AND COLLECTOR ELECTRODES WITH THE EMITTERCOLLECTOR CURRENT PATH CONNECTED BETWEEN THE CENTER TAP AND THE SECOND LINE, A THIRD SECONDARY WINDING OF THE TRANSFORMER COUPLED TO DRIVE A SATURABLE REACTOR WITH THE OUTPUT OF THE REACTOR COUPLED BETWEEN THE BASE AND EMITTER ELECTRODES OF THE THIRD TRANSISTOR TO SWITCH THE TRANSISTOR BETWEEN CONDUCTION AND NONCONDUCTION, AND AN OUTPUT WINDING OF THE TRANSFORMER HAVING TERMINALS PROVIDING AN ALTERNATING CURRENT OUTPUT CONTROLLED BY SWITCHING PULSES AND THE SATURABLE REACTOR.