Capacitative high voltage pulse generating apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING A RELATIVELY LOW POTENTIAL TO A MUCH HIGHER POTENTIAL COMPRISING, INPUT, OUTPUT AND COMMON TERMINALS, MEANS DEFINING A PLURALITY OF ADJACENT TRANSMISSION LINE PORTIONS, MEANS FOR DIRECT COUPLING SAID TRANSMISSION LINE PORTIONS TO SAID INPUT AND COMMON TERMINALS FOR INITIALLY ESTABLISHING AN ELECTROSTATIC FIELD IN ALL SAID TRANSMISSION LINE PORTIONS SO THAT THE ELECTROSTATIC FIELDS IN ADJACENT TRANSMISSION LINE PORTIONS ARE OPPOSITELY SENSED AND VECTORIALLY COMBINED BETWEEN SAID COMMON TERMINAL AND SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL, AND MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY INVERTING THE ELECTROSTATIC FIELD IN ALTERNATE ONES OF SAID TRANSMISSION LINE PORTIONS TO PROVIDE AN IMPULSE BETWEEN SAID OUTPUT AND COMMON TERMINALS HAVING A POTENTIAL MANY TIMES GREATER THAN THE POTENTIAL PROVIDED BY THE MEANS FOR INITIALLY ESTABLISHING SAID ELECTROSTATIC FIELD, WHEREIN SAID TRANSMISSION LINE PORTIONS COMPRISE A FIRST CONDUCTING STRIP INSULATEDLY SEPARATED FROM A COMMON CONDUCTING STRIP TO DEFINE A PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITOR, SAID INPUT AND COMMON TERMINALS BEING RESPECTIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST STRIP AND SAID COMMON STRIP AT THE INPUT END OF SAID FIRST AND SAID COMMON STRIPS, SAID OUTPUT TERMINAL BEING CONNECTED TO ONE OF SAID FIRST AND COMMON STRIPS AT THE OUTPUT END THEREOF, AND FURTHER COMPRISING, A STORAGE CONDUCTING STRIP ADJACENT TO AND INSULATEDLY SEPARATED FROM SAID COMMOM STRIP TO DEFINE A STORAGE CAPACITY THEREBETWEEN, AND MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID FIRST STRIP AND SAID STORAGE STRIP TOGETHER ONLY AT THE OUTPUT ENDS THEREOF.