Transistor voltage converter

Claim 1

A VOLTAGE CONVERTER INCLUDING AN OSCILLATOR HAVING AT LEAST ONE TRANSISTOR, A FEEDBACK CIRCUIT AND A LOAD CIRCUIT, SAID LOAD CIRCUIT BEING AN UNDER-CRITICALLY DAMPED CIRCUIT COUPLED TO THE EMITTER-COLLECTOR CIRCUIT OF EACH TRANSISTOR OF SAID OSCILLATOR AND DETERMINING THE OPERATING FREQUENCY OF SAID OSCILLATOR, A SATURABLE NON-LINEAR ELEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH EACH TRANSISTOR, FIRST MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID ELEMENT TO THE EMITTER-COLLECTOR CIRCUIT OF THE ASSOCIATED TRANSISTOR AND SECOND MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID ELEMENT TO THE BASE ELECTRODE OF THE ASSOCIATED TRANSISTOR, SAID ELEMENT AND SAID FIRST MEANS CO-ACTING TO PRODUCE SATURATION OF SAID ELEMENT AT A RELATIVELY SMALL VALUE OF THE CURRENT IN THE EMITTER-COLLECTOR CIRCUIT OF THE ASSOCIATED TRANSISTOR, WHEREBY SAID ELEMENT FLIPS OVER FROM A FIRST SATURATION CONDITION TO A SECOND SATURATION CONDITION IN RESPONSE TO ZERO CURRENT IN THE EMITTER-COLLECTOR CIRCUIT OF THE ASSOCIATED TRANSISTOR, SAID SECOND MEANS FEEDING BACK A SHARP BLOCKING PULSE TO THE BASE ELECTRODE OF THE ASSOCIATED TRANSISTOR IN RESPONSE TO THE FLIP-OVER OF THE NON-LINEAR ELEMENT.