Patents by Inventor George D. Sevigny

George D. Sevigny has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4016479
    Abstract: A push pull inverter has a pair of chopper transistors connected to opposite ends of a center tapped primary of an output transformer and off drive clamps for turning the chopper transistors off alternately under the control of an oscillator. On drive is provided entirely by feedback derived from a secondary winding on the transformer and coupled to the base circuits of the chopping transistors. When the oscillator causes one transistor to be clamped off, the resulting reversal of polarities in the transformer delivers on-drive to the other transistor base. Since the off-switching of the first transistor causes the on-switching of the second transistor in a sequential manner, the two can never be on at the same time, despite the effects of minority carrier storage in the switching transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1977
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George A. Reible, Jr., George D. Sevigny