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Abstract

A self-oscillating inverted rectifier has a series-resonant circuit connected between a load and the selector terminal of an electronically controllable switch, the other terminals of which are connected respectively to d.c. sources of different potential. Phase detection and feedback circuits provide a rectangular control wave for connecting and disconnecting the resonant circuit to each d.c. source only at null transits of the current in the resonant circuit. The feedback circuit includes a control circuit supplied with a regulation voltage, which may be derived from the load, whereby the switch is intermittently prevented from connecting the resonant circuit to energizing d.c. for an integral number of half cycles of the resonant frequency. The load may be a high-frequency electrosurgical device or, more generally, a rectifier circuit providing accurately regulated d.c. power to a variable load.

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