Internal-combustion engines – Igniters – Incandescent
Patent
1976-02-27
1978-11-21
Cox, Ronald B.
Internal-combustion engines
Igniters
Incandescent
123117R, 331 65, F02P 504, F02P 100
Patent
active
041261127
ABSTRACT:
Ignition pulses are supplied to an internal combustion engine from a breakerless electronic ignition system wherein the ignition pulses are produced in response to the movement of teeth on an electrically conductive trigger wheel past an inductive sensor. The inductive sensor is part of a LC tank circuit of an oscillator normally producing an oscillatory output signal which is detected by a bistable demodulator, and as a tooth moves into close proximity with the inductive sensor energy from the tank circuit is lost through an inductive coupling with the trigger wheel until the oscillatory output signal is terminated. The bistable demodulator responds to the absence of an oscillatory output signal by producing a timing signal which causes an ignition pulse to be supplied to the engine. The trigger wheel rotates in synchronization with the engine, and the initial timing of the ignition system is determined by setting the relative positions of the sensor and the trigger wheel. To advance or retard the initial timing of the ignition system, a resistor is connected across the tank circuit by a controllable switch to control the energy level in the tank circuit and hence the time required to terminate the oscillatory output signal. The initial timing of the ignition system may be set with the resistor electrically connected across the tank circuit, and upon the occurrence of engine conditions may result in undesirable ignition knock the controllable switch may be rendered nonconductive so as to retard the timing of the ignition pulses. Alternatively, the initial timing of the ignition system may be set with the resistor electrically connected across the tank circuit so that under certain engine operating conditions the switch may be rendered conductive to advance the initial timing of the ignition system. The switch connecting the resistor across the tank circuit may be a transistor which is rendered fully conductive or nonconductive by control signals produced according to predetermined engine operating conditions, or alternatively the conduction of the transistor may be gradually varied from fully conductive to nonconductive so as to serve as a variable resistor gradually increasing or decreasing the resistance across the tank circuit and thereby gradually advancing or retarding the initial timing of the ignition system.
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Cox Ronald B.
Eltra Corporation
Greenstien Robert E.
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