Patent ID: 7898113

Claim:
A pulse power supply device for supplying a bipolar pulse current to an inductive load with high repetition and regenerating residual magnetic energy of the inductive load so as to use the residual magnetic energy for the next cycle of discharge of the bipolar pulse current, comprising: a bridge circuit having four terminals (A), (B), (C) and (D) composed of a first inverse-conductive semiconductor switch between terminals (A) and (B) including a first semiconductor switch and a first diode connected in parallel, a second inverse-conductive semiconductor switch between terminals (B) and (C) including a second semiconductor switch and a second diode connected in parallel, a third inverse-conductive semiconductor switch between terminals (C) and (D) including a third semiconductor switch and a third diode connected in parallel, and a fourth inverse-conductive semiconductor switch between terminals (D) and (A) including a fourth semiconductor switch and a fourth diode connected in parallel, cathodes of the first diode and the second diode being connected to the terminal (B) and anodes of the third diode and the fourth diode being connected to the terminal (D); an energy source capacitor initially charged with positive charge connected between the terminals (B) and (D); and a control device for controlling each on/off state of the first, the second, the third and the fourth inverse-conductive semiconductor switches respectively; wherein, the control device controls the first, the second, the third and the fourth inverse-conductive semiconductor switches so that either a first pair of inverse-conductive semiconductor switches having the first and the third inverse-conductive semiconductor switches or a second pair of inverse-conductive semiconductor switches having the second and the fourth inverse-conductive semiconductor switches is simultaneously turned on while other pair is simultaneously turned off, so as to provide the bipolar pulse current from the energy source capacity being positively charged to the inductive load by discharging the energy source capacitor in a freewheeling state, in which the bipolar pulse current flows via the first, the second, the third and the fourth inverse-conductive semiconductor switches simultaneously and a polarity of voltage of the energy source capacitor become negative, wherein the control device controls the first, the second, the third and the fourth inverse-conductive semiconductor switches so that either the first pair of the inverse-conductive semiconductor switches or the second pair of the inverse-conductive semiconductor switches are simultaneously turned off while other pair is simultaneously turned on so that the bipolar pulse current is utilized at the next cycle; and wherein, the inductive load is connected between the terminals (A) and (C) in the bridge circuit.