Tunnel diode voltage multiplier

Claim 1

A VOLTAGE MULTIPLIER COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF TUNNEL DIODES, DIRECT CURRENT CONDUCTION MEANS CONNECTING SAID TUNNEL DIODES IN SERIES, SAID DIRECT CURRENT CONDUCTION MEANS INCLUDING INDUCTIVE ELEMENTS INTERPOSED BETWEEN ADJACENT TUNNEL DIODES, MEANS TO APPLY A DIRECT CURRENT BIAS TO SAID DIODES THROUGH SAID DIRECT CURRENT CONDUCTION MEANS TO BIAS SAID DIODES IN THE SAME ONE OF THEIR HIGH AND LOW VOLTAGE STATES, ALTERNATING CURRENT CONDUCTION MEANS COUPLING SAID TUNNEL DIODES IN PARALLEL, SAID ALTERNATING CURRENT CONDUCTION MEANS INCLUDING DIRECT CURRENT BLOCKING CAPACITORS IN SERIES WITH AT LEAST ALL BUT ONE OF SAID TUNNEL DIODES, SAID ALTERNATING CURRENT CONDUCTION MEANS ALSO INCLUDING CONDUCTION DIODES INTERPOSED BETWEEN CORRESPONDING TERMINALS OF ADJACENT TUNNEL DIODES, MEANS TO APPLY A TRIGGER PULSE TO ONE OF SAID TUNNEL DIODES IN AN AMPLITUDE SUFFICIENT TO TRIGGER SAID ONE TUNNEL DIODE TO THE OTHER OF ITS VOLTAGE STATES, WHEREBY THE CHANGED STATE OF THE ONE TUNNEL DIODE CAUSES A TRIGGER PULSE TO BE COUPLED TO ONE TERMINAL OF THE NEXT ADJACENT TUNNEL DIODE THROUGH THE INTERPOSED CONDUCTION DIODE BEFORE IT CAN BE COUPLED THROUGH THE INTERPOSED INDUCTIVE ELEMENT TO THE OTHER TERMINAL OF THE TUNNEL DIODE, AND SO ON UNTIL ALL TUNNEL DIODES ARE SWITCHED TO THEIR OTHER VOLTAGE STATE, AND MEANS TO DERIVE AN OUTPUT VOLTAGE FROM ACROSS SAID DIRECT CURRENT CONDUCTION MEANS CONNECTING THE TUNNEL DIODES IN SERIES, SAID OUTPUT VOLTAGE BEING SUBSTANTIALLY THE SUM OF THE VOLTAGES ACROSS THE INDIVIDUAL TUNNEL DIODES.