US 97617304 A description a high energy toroidal inductor of the present invention is an inductor of small weight and volume that is capable of handling high electromagnetic forces as well as an inductor having minimal stray magnetic fields making it especially suitable to electrical pulse power applications the high energy toroidal inductor provides the same electromagnetic characteristics as the u201c segmented toroid u201d described in the background but with much lower mass in the high energy toroidal inductor each winding is designed to be self supporting against the internal magnetic pressure only requiring a small lightweight support ring on the top and bottom of the toroid these rings also reduce the radially inward forces on the central bucking cylinder thus the bucking cylinder is made smaller reducing the overall weight of the high energy toroidal inductor fig1 depicts the high energy toroidal inductor heti 20 of the present invention as shown the heti 20 includes a plurality of leaves 22 a central bucking cylinder 24 a top support ring 26 and a bottom support ring not shown that is identical to the top support ring referring to fig2 4 the details of the leaves 22 may be appreciated as shown each leaf 22 is of a.