Power converter using switching transistors driven by an inductance-timed feedback network

Claim 1

A SOURCE OF DIRECT-CURRENT PROVIDED WITH FIRST AND SECOND TERMINALS OF OPPOSITE POLARITY, AN ALTERNATINGCURRENT ULTILIZATION CIRCUIT HAVING AN INPUT TERMINAL AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL, AND MEANS FOR CONNECTING SAID INPUT TERMINAL TO EACH OF SAID SOURCE TERMINALS IN ALTERNATION WHICH COMPRISES, IN COMBINATION, A PLURALITY OF TRANSISTOR SWITCHES EACH OF WHICH HAS A TRANSCONDUCTIVE PATH AND A CONTROL CURRENT PATH, AND EACH OF WHICH BEING CHARACTERIZED IN THAT THE ENERGIZATION OF SAID CONTROL CURRENT PATH REGULATES THE IMPEDANCE OF SAID TRANSCONDUCTIVE PATH, CIRCUIT MEANS SERIALLY CONNECTING THE TRANSCONDUCTIVE PATHS OF PAIRS OF SAID SWITCHES DIRECTLY ACROSS SAID SOURCE, MEANS FOR CONNECTING SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL OF SAID UTILIZATION CIRCUIT TO SAID SWITCHES DIRECTLY ACROSS SAID SOURCE, MEANS FORMER HAVING A PRIMARY WINDING AND A PLURALITY OF SECONDARY WINDINGS, SAID PRIMARY WINDING BEING CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID INPUT TERMINAL AND THE JUNCTURE OF THE TRANSCONDUCTIVE PATHS OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID PAIRS OF SWITCHES, CIRCUIT MEANS FOR CONNECTING EACH OF SAID SECONDARY WINDINGS ACROSS THE CONTROL CURRENT PATH OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID SWITCHES FOR REGULATING THE IMPEDANGE OF SAID SWITCHES IN RESPONSE TO THE MAGNITUDE OF CURRENT FLOWING THROUGH SAID PRIMARY WINDING, SAID INDUCTANCE MEANS EFFECTIVELY CONNECTED IN PARALLEL WITH SAID PRIMARY WINDING FOR REGULATING THE TIME DURATION OF CURRENT FLOW IN A GIVEN DIRECTION THROUGH SAID PRIMARY WINDING.