Control apparatus employing a semiconductor device connected in inverse parallel

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APPARATUS OF THE CLASS DESCRIBED COMPRISING: MEANS FOR PRODUCING AN ELECTRICAL SIGNAL POTENTIAL; CONTROL MEANSF SAID CONTROL MEANS COMPRISING IN COMBINATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MEANS HAVING A COLLECTOR ELECTRODE, A BASE ELECTRODE AND AN EMITTER ELECTRODE, A SOURCE OF ALTERNATING SIGNAL, TRANSFORMER MEANS HAVING FIRST AND SECOND WINDINGS, MEANS CONNECTING THE FIRST WINDING OF SAID TRANSFORMER MEANS INTERMEDIATE SAID SOURCE OF ALTERNATING SIGNALS AND THE COLLECTOR ELECTRODE OF SAID SEMI-CONDUCTOR MEANS, MEANS CONNECTING THE EMITTER ELECTRODE OF SAID SEMI-CONDUCTOR MEANS TO A COMMON CONDUCTOR, A FIRST AND SECOND DISCHARGE DEVICES EACH HAVING AN INPUT ELECTRODE, OUTPUT ELECTRODE, AND A CONTROL ELECTRODE, FIRST CAPACITIVE MEANS, MEANS CONNECTING SAID FIRST CAPACITIVE MEANS AND THE SECOND WINDING OF SAID TRANSFORMER MEANS IN SERIES RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OUTPUT AND CONTROL ELECTRODE OF SAID FIRST DISCHARGE DEVICE, FIRST DIODE MEANS CONNECTING SAID SOURCE OF ALTERNATING SIGNALS TO THE INPUT ELECTRODE OF SAID FIRST DISCHARGE DEVICE AND BEING POLED TO PRESENT AN EASY CURRENT-FLOW PATH WHEN SAID ALTERNATING SIGNAL SOURCE IS OF A FIRST POLARITY, FURTHER TRANSFORMER MEANS HAVING FIRST AND SECOND WINDINGS, SAID FIRST WINDING CONNECTED INTERMEDIATE THE OUTPUT ELECTRODE OF SAID FIRST DISCHARGE DEVICE AND SAID COMMON CONDUCTOR, SECOND CAPACITIVE MEANS, MEANS CONNECTING THE SECOND WINDING OF SAID FURTHER TRANSFORMER MEANS AND SAID SECOND CAPACITIVE MEANS IN SERIES RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OUTPUT AND CONTROL ELECTRODES OF SAID SECOND DISCHARGE DEVICE, MEANS CONNECTING THE OUTPUT ELECTRODE OF SAID SECOND DISCHARGE DEVICE TO SAID