Self isolating high frequency saturable reactor

Patent · 23 June 1998

OSTI ID:871651

Moore, James A ^[1]

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1. Powell, TN

The present invention discloses a saturable reactor and a method for decoupling the interwinding capacitance from the frequency limitations of the reactor so that the equivalent electrical circuit of the saturable reactor comprises a variable inductor. The saturable reactor comprises a plurality of physically symmetrical magnetic cores with closed loop magnetic paths and a novel method of wiring a control winding and a RF winding. The present invention additionally discloses a matching network and method for matching the impedances of a RF generator to a load. The matching network comprises a matching transformer and a saturable reactor.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA
• Assignee: Sematech, Inc. (Austin, TX)
• Patent Number(s): US 5770982
• Application Number: 08/739,340
• OSTI ID: 871651
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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