Integrated circuit bistable multivibrator

Claim 1

A BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR CIRCUIT INCLUDING FIRST AND . SECOND TRANSISTORS EACH HAVING COLLECTOR, EMITTER AND BASE ELECTRODES, MEANS FOR CONNECTING THE COLLECTOR ELECTRODE OF EACH SAID TRANSISTOR TO A POTENTIAL SOURCE, MEANS FOR CONNECTING THE EMITTER ELECTRODE OF EACH SAID TRANSISTOR TO A COMMON REFERENCE POTENTIAL, SEMICONDUTOR DIODE MEANS POLED FOR REVERSE CONDUCTION CONNECTING THE COLLECTOR ELECTRODE OF EACH SAID TRANSISTOR TO THE BASE ELECTRODE OF THE OTHER SAID TRANSISTOR, SAID DIODE MEANS HAVING A REVERSE BREAKDOWN VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTIC LESS THAN THE VOLTAGE APPEARING AT THE COLLECTOR ELECTRODE OF THE NON-CONDUCTING ONE OF SAID TRANSISTORS, AND WITH SAID DIODE MEANS HAVING A VALUE OF REVERSE JUNCTION CAPACITANCE TO STORE A CHARGE AT LEASTT EQUAL TO THE CHARGE STORED BY EXCESS MINORITY CARRIERS IN THE BASE OF THE CONDUCTING TRANSISTOR, AND CIRCUIT MEANS FOR COUPLING TRIGGERING PULSES TO THE BASE ELECTRODE OF SAID TRANSISTORS TO THEREBY PROVIDE ALTERNATE STATES OF CONDUCTION AND NON-CONDUCTION, SAID LAST NAMED CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND PAIRS OF SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES SERIES CONNECTED BETWEEN THE BASE ELECTRODE OF EACH SAID TRANSISTOR AND A COMMON TRIGGER INPUT TERMINAL, AND A SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE COUPLING THE JUNCTION POINT OF THE SERIES DIODES IN EACH SAID PAIR TO THE COLLECTOR ELECTRODE OF EACH SAID TRANSISTORS WHEREBY WHEN ONE OF THE COUPLING DIODES IS CONDUCTING AND THE OTHER IS REVERSE BIASED, THE TRIGGERING PULSE WILL CHARGE THE SERIES DIODE ASSOCIATED WILL THE CONDUCTING DIODE.