METHOD FOR ENERGY EXTRACTION FROM INDUCTIVE STORAGE AND ITS TRANSMISSION TO LOAD Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: heavy-current pulsed power engineering. SUBSTANCE: method involves passage of pumping current through series-interconnected inductive energy storages and closed electrodes of vacuum release for 0.5-1.0 s. As soon as desired value of pumping current is attained, inductive energy storages are sequentially closed to vacuum release electrodes and spaced apart through distance equal to 0.95-1.2 of distance between parallel buses used for feeding pumping current to vacuum release electrodes. Then arc discharge between vacuum release electrodes is suppressed by passing through them countercurrent pulse whose length is not shorter than time required for recovering electric strength of electrode gap; prior to countercurrent pulse termination electrode gap is filled with plasma of 5-8•10^-5 concentration under vacuum of 10¹²-10¹⁴cm^-3 torr. Current pulse of 0.3-0.5 mcs duration supplied to load is generated upon plasma decay under the action of magnetic field due to current flowing over parallel buses provided with holes coaxial with vacuum release electrodes. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of energy transmission from inductive energy storage to load. 4 cl, 3 dwg