EP0608229B1 - Zündanlage für verbrennungskraftmaschinen - Google Patents

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EP0608229B1
EP0608229B1 EP92907839A EP92907839A EP0608229B1 EP 0608229 B1 EP0608229 B1 EP 0608229B1 EP 92907839 A EP92907839 A EP 92907839A EP 92907839 A EP92907839 A EP 92907839A EP 0608229 B1 EP0608229 B1 EP 0608229B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P3/00—Other installations
    • F02P3/02—Other installations having inductive energy storage, e.g. arrangements of induction coils
    • F02P3/04—Layout of circuits
    • F02P3/045—Layout of circuits for control of the dwell or anti dwell time
    • F02P3/0453—Opening or closing the primary coil circuit with semiconductor devices
    • F02P3/0456—Opening or closing the primary coil circuit with semiconductor devices using digital techniques
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P11/00—Safety means for electric spark ignition, not otherwise provided for
    • F02P11/06—Indicating unsafe conditions
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P15/00—Electric spark ignition having characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F02P1/00 - F02P13/00 and combined with layout of ignition circuits
    • F02P15/10—Electric spark ignition having characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F02P1/00 - F02P13/00 and combined with layout of ignition circuits having continuous electric sparks
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P17/00—Testing of ignition installations, e.g. in combination with adjusting; Testing of ignition timing in compression-ignition engines
    • F02P17/12—Testing characteristics of the spark, ignition voltage or current
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02P—IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
    • F02P9/00—Electric spark ignition control, not otherwise provided for
    • F02P9/002—Control of spark intensity, intensifying, lengthening, suppression

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  • the invention relates to an ignition system according to the introductory part of patent claim 1.
  • the ignition of the fuel / air mixture in the cylinder must be very precise in time. A large amount of ignition energy must be provided for this. Assuming normal operation, this high energy only has to be applied to the spark plug for a short time. In unfavorable conditions, the ignition of the fuel-air mixture with short ignition current phases is not guaranteed. For this reason, the high-voltage capacitor ignition (HKZ), which is in itself advantageous for normal operation, has not been able to establish itself.
  • HKZ high-voltage capacitor ignition
  • misfire is extremely undesirable because of emissions regulations and the use of catalysts.
  • the invention has for its object to provide an ignition system according to the introductory part of claim 1, which offers high security against misfires with largely minimized spark plug wear.
  • the ignition current for each ignition process is only maintained for as long as is absolutely necessary to ignite the fuel-air mixture after the ignition spark has jumped over. This period is usually very short. It can also be relatively long under difficult conditions.
  • the spark plug erosion is largely minimized as a whole by the ignition system duration being made possible by the ignition system according to the invention.
  • the ignition system according to the invention can also be used in a very simple manner for one to indicate an increased risk of misfiring and / or the occurrence of misfires by additionally observing whether and when flames take place for the individual cylinders within the predetermined maximum time period until the ignition device is switched off.
  • the subclaims relate to preferred configurations of the ignition system according to claim 1.
  • the ignition device individually assigned to each cylinder of the internal combustion engine has a separate ignition module for each cylinder, which can be switched on and off quickly, that is to say practically without delay, and to deliver an unlimited combustion current to the respective spark plug when switched on can
  • the individual ignitions in the cylinders or the absence of ignitions during the maximum duty cycle of the ignition modules are sensed and the respective ignition module is switched off immediately after the ignition of the fuel / air mixture in the associated cylinder.
  • a suitable ignition device is described, for example, in patent application P 39 28 726.2 dated August 30. Described in 1989.
  • the sensor required for this can also be used as a knock sensor. It could also be a common acoustic sensor can be used.
  • the basic idea in the ignition system according to the invention is to have an ignition spark applied only until the fuel / air mixture is ignited in the cylinder. Most of the time, this process is very short and, accordingly, the required electrical ignition energy is small. In rare cases where there is no immediate ignition, the ignition current continues to flow through the spark plug until the mixture becomes ignitable. The amplitude of the ignition current preferably increases progressively in order to facilitate the ignition process. The same also applies to the high voltage if there is initially no sparking.
  • the ignition processes are preferably monitored not only with regard to the occurrence or non-occurrence of inflammations but also with regard to the time period between the target ignition point and the actual ignition, and if longer ignition delays occur more frequently, this fact can be recorded in the on-board computer and warn the driver against an increased risk of misfiring. This enables early service intervention before misfires occur.
  • the display of misfires draws the user's attention to the fact that the further operation of the engine is immediately at high risk for it or for parts thereof, e.g. the catalyst.
  • the ignition module provided separately for each cylinder is designated by 5.
  • a separate sensor in the form of a pressure sensor that responds to the pressure prevailing in the cylinder.
  • the sensor 1 sends its signal of the mixture pressure to a comparator 2. This compares the signal with a reference voltage, which is selected so that only signals from sensor 1 reach the comparator output which are triggered by a pressure in the cylinder which is greater than the compression.
  • An OR gate 3 transmits these signals to a flip-flop 4, which was previously set by ignition timing electronics 7, and resets it.
  • the FF 4 switches the ignition module 5 on in the set state and off in the reset state. Regardless of the comparator 2, the FF 4 is reset via the OR gate 3 if there is no ignition after approximately half a crankshaft rotation by a signal from the ignition timing electronics 7, and the ignition is therefore switched off in any case. This process is recognized and displayed (error signal).
  • the ignition timing electronics 7 receives information about the switch-on and switch-off times of the respective ignition modules 5 from the output of the FF 4.
  • an optical sensor could also be used for each of the cylinders.
  • a conventional sound sensor for knock detection is used as sensor 1 'for detecting the explosive ignition in the individual cylinders.
  • a circuit arrangement is connected downstream of each time window, which essentially corresponds to the circuit arrangement with components 2, 3 and 4 in the embodiment according to FIG. 1 and fulfills the same function as this.
  • the components are designated 2 ', 3' and 4 'here. Just as in FIG.
  • the ignition electronics 7 receive information about the piston positions through the camshaft sensor designated here 6 ', which delivers a signal corresponding to the instantaneous angular position of the camshaft.
  • the power supply for the ignition modules 5 ' is provided by a power supply 8' which corresponds to the power supply 8 provided for the same purpose in the embodiment according to FIG. 1.
  • the setting of the FF 4 'and its resetting at the end of the predetermined maximum period of time is carried out in the ignition timing electronics 7' by the usual microprocessor 11 (also not shown in the embodiment according to FIG. 1), which processes the signals corresponding to the engine operating data, the signals of the camshaft sensor 6 'and, if necessary, further signals which are entered into it and are important for the operation of the machine are evaluated and linked in a program-controlled manner.
  • the embodiment according to FIG. 2 thus differs from the embodiment according to FIG. 1 essentially in that instead of a separate sensor 1 for each cylinder, a sensor 1 'common to all cylinders is provided.
  • a modification to the above-described mode of operation according to claim 11 is that for each of the cylinders, the ignition device, in the case of the embodiments 1 and 2, the ignition module in question, for the desired target ignition point as switched on there, after a time corresponding to the normal ignition delay, that is to say the delay that normally occurs between the switching on of the ignition and the time of the ignition, regardless of the sensor immediately switched off again and only switched on again within the predetermined maximum period of time provided for the ignition process with ignition, if necessary repeatedly, if the sensor responsible for the cylinder reports or has not reported any ignition.
  • This procedure allows an inertia of the sensors and / or the increase in pressure in the cylinder associated with the ignition to be taken into account in such a way that, in the normal case, there is no unnecessary extension of the spark plug burning time.
  • the above-mentioned error and warning signals can of course also be formed and displayed in this case by appropriate monitoring.

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