Regulated power supply

Claim 1

A POWER SUPPLY COMPRISING A SOURCE OF ALTERNATINGCURRENT POWER HAVING FIRST AND SECOND TERMINALS AND THIRD AND FOURTH TERMINALS AT POTENTIALS INTERMEDIATE TO THE POTENTIALS AT SAID FIRST AND SECOND TERMINALS, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE OUTPUT TERMINALS, A FULL WAVE BRIDGE RECTIFIER HAVING FOUR UNILATERALLY CONDUCTING LEGS CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND TERMINALS AND SAID POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE OUTPUT TERMINALS, SAID BRIDGE RECTIFIER INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE CONTROLLED RECTIFIER IN THE SIGNAL PATH BETWEEN SAID ALTERNATING-CURRENT SOURCE AND SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS, MEANS FOR CONTROLLING THE CONDUCTION ANGLE OF SAID CONTROLLED RECTIFIER RESPONSIVE TO THE CONDITIONS ACROSS SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS, DIODES CONNECTED FROM SAID THIRD AND FOURTH TERMINALS TO SAID OUTPUT CIRCUIT, SAID DIODES BEING POLED TO CONDUCT CURRENT THROUGH SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS SAID BRIDGE RECTIFIER, AN INDUCTOR HAVING FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS WITH A COMMON TERMINAL, SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID INDUCTOR CONNECTED IN SERIES BETWEEN SAID BRIDGE RECTIFIER AND ONE OF SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS SAID COMMON TERMINAL BEING CONNECTED TO SAID BRIDGE RECTIFIER, AND A DIODE AND SAID SECOND PORTION OF SAID INDUCTOR BEING CONNECTED IN SERIES BETWEEN SAID BRIDGE RECTIFIER AND THE OTHER OF SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS, SAID LAST-NAMED DIODE POLED TO CARRY CURRENT TO SAID POSITIVE OUTPUT TERMINAL.