Abstract: In a circuit including a semiconductor switch for switching a load current, the so-called storage time of the semiconductor switch, i.e. the delay occurring during switching from the conductive state to the blocking state, is regulated so as to decrease undesired variation of same, i.e. the storage period is maintained substantially constant. This is achieved in the case, for example, of a transistor in that, dependent on the collector voltage, the control or base current for switching on the transistor, and possibly a reverse base voltage applied to block the transistor, are varied so as to maintain the storage period at a desired value.

Abstract: A method of, and device for transmitting a pulse-duration modulated signal wherein information is contained in the position of pulse edges in the signal comprising, amplitude modulating a first carrier oscillation with the pulse duration modulated signal to form a first carrier frequency pulse train wherein the pulse duration does not always correspond to an integral number of carrier oscillation periods, and amplitude modulating a second carrier oscillation with the pulse duration modulated signal in phase opposition to the modulation of the first carrier oscillation to form a second carrier frequency pulse train wherein the pulse duration does not always correspond to an integral number of carrier oscillation periods, the start of the first and second carrier oscillations by the pulse duration modulated signal being in phase with each other, and the end of one of the first and second carrier oscillations being separated from the start of the other of the first and second carrier oscillations to prevent a di

Abstract: The isolating transformer has two windings galvanically separated from each other and each connected to a respective point, which points are set at various high voltage potentials. At least one additional transformer is provided in series with the isolating transformer, and has two galvanically separated windings, with one winding being galvanically separated from the isolating transformer and the second winding being galvanically connected to a first winding of the isolating transformer.

Abstract: A modulation amplifier having an output amplifier element which contains an accumulation choke, a switching tube and a low-pass filter connected in series, with a commutation diode connected to the switching tube is disclosed. The switching tube is controlled by pulse duration-modulated pulses and a semiconductor switch is connected between the switching tube and the pulse duration-modulated pulses. The semiconductor switch comprises two branches, each of which are connected to a different electric potential and each including a controlled semiconductor which acts as a switch, one of the branches being controlled into a conducting state and the other of the branches being controlled into a non-conducting state upon a potential jump in the pulse time-modulated pulses in either the increasing or decreasing directions.