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Abstract

An electrical energy storage and transforming device and associated pulse-forming systems suitable for receiving, storing, and transforming an electrical charge to produce electrical output pulses, for example, ignition pulses for a spark-ignition internal combustion engine, includes a current sheet inductor network defined by at least two conductive current sheet inductors separated by and insulated from one another by a dielectric material to provide coupled current sheet inductors having resistive, capacitive, and inductive characteristics. When electrical energy is applied to the current sheet inductor network, and electrical charge is stored and retained as an electrostatic field between the conductive current sheets until an output pulse is desired, at which time the conductive strips of the inductively coupled current sheet inductors are substantially shunted to rapidly discharge the previously charged energy. Electron flow in each sheet during discharge reinforces to provide a consequent magnetic field. An output inductor in magnetic proximity to the so-produced magnetic field provides the desired electrical output pulse. The conductive sheets can be configured so as to have resistive, capacitive, and inductive reactance, and relative ratios thereof, that are largely independently controlled to provide selected magnetic field, transient, and pulse-forming characteristics for a desired application.

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