GB426902A - Improvements in or relating to control apparatus for electric discharge devices - Google Patents

Improvements in or relating to control apparatus for electric discharge devices

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Publication number
GB426902A
GB426902A GB9478/34A GB947834A GB426902A GB 426902 A GB426902 A GB 426902A GB 9478/34 A GB9478/34 A GB 9478/34A GB 947834 A GB947834 A GB 947834A GB 426902 A GB426902 A GB 426902A
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Prior art keywords
condenser
boron
starting electrode
component
valve
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Expired
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GB9478/34A
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CBS Corp
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Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
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Priority claimed from US669273A external-priority patent/US2008730A/en
Application filed by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co filed Critical Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
Publication of GB426902A publication Critical patent/GB426902A/en
Expired legal-status Critical Current

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Classifications

    • HELECTRICITY
    • H02GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02MAPPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF
    • H02M1/00Details of apparatus for conversion
    • H02M1/02Circuits specially adapted for the generation of grid-control or igniter-control voltages for discharge tubes incorporated in static converters
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J13/00Discharge tubes with liquid-pool cathodes, e.g. metal-vapour rectifying tubes
    • H01J13/02Details
    • H01J13/34Igniting arrangements
    • H01J13/36Igniting arrangements having resistive or capacitative igniter
    • H01J13/38Igniting arrangements having resistive or capacitative igniter having resistive igniter only

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Generation Of Surge Voltage And Current (AREA)
  • Oxygen, Ozone, And Oxides In General (AREA)

Abstract

426,902. Converting. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING CO., East Pittsburg, U.S.A.-(Assignees of Smede, L. ; 620, East End Avenue, Pittsburg, U.S.A.) March 26, 1934, No. 9478. Convention date, May 3, 1933. [Class 38 (ii)] [See also Group XL] A discharge device, particularly of the type in which the starting electrode is partly immersed in a solid or liquid cathode, is controlled by an arrangement for charging a condenser and then discharging it through an auxiliary valve and the starting electrode discharge path. In the form shown, the condenser 23 is charged from an A.C. supply through a rectifier 27, this charged condenser is periodically connected between the cathode 5 and starting electrode 9 of the discharge device by means of a grid controlled valve 29. The potential on the grid of this valve 29 consists of an A.C. component superimposed on a D.C. component and by varying the D.C. component the moment of ignition of the main discharge can be varied. The period of discharge of the condenser 23 can be varied by means of resistance 37 in the starting electrode circuit. In order to enable the range of regulation to be increased the A.C. component of grid potential for the valve 29 is obtained from a phase shifting circuit supplied from an additional winding on the transformer 15. The specification states that each electrode of the discharge device 1 may be arranged to operate as an anode or as a cathode. Examples of solid cathodes given are lead, tin, iron and nickel. Examples of suitable materials for the starting electrode are carbon, silicate carbide, boron carbide, boron, silicon boron and boron carbide mixtures and boron and carbon mixtures.
GB9478/34A 1933-05-03 1934-03-26 Improvements in or relating to control apparatus for electric discharge devices Expired GB426902A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US669273A US2008730A (en) 1933-05-03 1933-05-03 Starting circuits
US22996A US2162519A (en) 1933-05-03 1935-05-23 Electric discharge apparatus

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GB426902A true GB426902A (en) 1935-04-11

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GB9478/34A Expired GB426902A (en) 1933-05-03 1934-03-26 Improvements in or relating to control apparatus for electric discharge devices

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US (1) US2162519A (en)
DE (1) DE706565C (en)
FR (1) FR772739A (en)
GB (1) GB426902A (en)

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE943785C (en) * 1940-02-23 1956-06-01 Siemens Ag Device for controlling gas or vapor discharge vessels

Families Citing this family (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE739505C (en) * 1937-08-20 1943-09-28 Siemens Ag Device for generating short-term current pulses
BE483445A (en) * 1940-08-03
US2494747A (en) * 1948-08-09 1950-01-17 Cutler Hammer Inc Arc welding system
DE1254776B (en) * 1958-08-22 1967-11-23 Licentia Gmbh Circuit arrangement for the control of antiparallel-connected vapor or gas discharge vessels, which are used to switch a load that changes in the power factor

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE943785C (en) * 1940-02-23 1956-06-01 Siemens Ag Device for controlling gas or vapor discharge vessels

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FR772739A (en) 1934-11-05
US2162519A (en) 1939-06-13
DE706565C (en) 1941-05-29

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