Electromagnetic quantizer

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR COVERTING A VOLTAGE INTO A SEQUENCE OF PULSES WHEREIN THE NUMBER OF PULSES IS RELATED TO THE AMPLITUDE OF THE VOLTAGE, THE APPARATUS COMPRISING, A CLOSED MAGNETIC CORE HAVING FIRST AND SECOND REMANENT FLUX STATES, A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL FLUX PATHS OF PROGRESSIVELY GREATER LENGTHS DEFINED BY A PLURALITY OF APERTURES IN THE CORE, AN INPUT WINDING LINKING THE CORE, A VOLTAGE SOURCE CONNECTED ACROSS THE INPUT WINDING AND ADAPTED TO PRODUCE A CURRENT PULSE THEREIN WHICH INCREASES AS A FUNCTION OF TIME AND IS SUFFICIENT TO SWITCH AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE FLUX PATHS FROM THE FIRST REMANENT STATE TO THE SECOND, A PLURALITY OF OUTPUT COILS INDIVIDUALLY LINKING RESPECTIVE FLUX PATHS, EACH OUTPUT COIL LINKING THE RESPCTIVE FLUX PATH IN A SENSE OPPOSITE TO THE SENSE OF THE COIL LINKING THE PATH OF IMMEDIATELY GREATER LENGTH, WHEREBY A CHANGE IN THE MAGNETIC STATE OF THE CORE FROM THE FIRST REMANENT STATE TO THE SECOND INDUCES RESPECTIVE VOLTAGE PULSES IN THE OUTPUT COILS, THE OUTPUT COILS LINKING THE FLUX PATHS BEING CONNECTED IN SERIES THEREBY TO PROVIDE A COMMON OUTPUT WINDING WHEREIN THE VOLTAGE PLUSES INDUCED IN THE OUTPUT COILS APPEAR IN ALTERNATELY OPPOSITE POLARITIES, FULL WAVE RECTIFYING MEANS HAVING INPUT AND OUTPUT TERMINALS, THE INPUT TERMINALS BEING CONNECTED TO THE COMMON OUTPUT WINDING TO RECEIVE THE PULSES OF ALTERNATELY OPPOSITE POLARITY, THE RECTIFYING MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO PRODUCE A SEQUENCE OF OUTPUT PULSES OF A SINGLE POLARITY CORRESPONDING IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF PULSES INDUCED IN THE PARALLEL FLUX PATHS.