EP2307702A2 - Energieversorgungssteuerung für die zündkerze eines verbrennungsmotors - Google Patents

Energieversorgungssteuerung für die zündkerze eines verbrennungsmotors

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EP2307702A2
EP2307702A2 EP09757711A EP09757711A EP2307702A2 EP 2307702 A2 EP2307702 A2 EP 2307702A2 EP 09757711 A EP09757711 A EP 09757711A EP 09757711 A EP09757711 A EP 09757711A EP 2307702 A2 EP2307702 A2 EP 2307702A2
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voltage
spark
ignition
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spark plug
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Maxime Makarov
Frederic Auzas
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Renault SAS
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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
    • F02P23/00—Other ignition
    • F02P23/04—Other physical ignition means, e.g. using laser rays
    • 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
    • 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
    • F02P9/007—Control of spark intensity, intensifying, lengthening, suppression by supplementary electrical discharge in the pre-ionised electrode interspace of the sparking plug, e.g. plasma jet ignition

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  • the present invention relates to a method of supplying an electric spark plug to an electrical voltage ensuring the generation of a branched ignition spark, in particular of an internal combustion engine.
  • the size of the spark (of the order of one cubic mm) is limited by the distance between two electrodes of the candle.
  • Another object is to significantly increase the degree of branching of the radiofrequency spark (ie the total number of filaments simultaneously generated) and thus increase this spark and therefore its ignition efficiency of the mixture coming into its environment.
  • a proposed solution to at least tend towards this (these) goal (s) is that the power supply of the candle (in particular radiofrequency) comprises a stage of increase in stages (with thus at least such a step), until to the appropriate ignition voltage, the supply voltage of this candle.
  • the electrical energy supply means of the spark plug be adapted to generate a first spark ignition voltage and, for then, increasing this first electrical voltage step (s) until said adapted ignition voltage.
  • FIG. 1 schematizes a radio frequency candle mounted on an internal combustion engine
  • FIG. 2 schematizes a typical time evolution. / voltage, on the RF candles controlled in a traditional manner
  • Figures 3,4 schematically an example of time / voltage evolution according to the invention, on a RF candle piloted differently
  • Figure 5 shows a branched spark that can be obtained with the control according to fig.3,4; to compare with the spark of fig.l ..
  • FIG. 1 shows a radiofrequency (RF) resonant candle 1 mounted on the cylinder head 3 of an internal combustion engine 5.
  • the tip 1a of the spark plug opens into the combustion chamber 7 of the engine where the mixture is injected to ignite.
  • RF radiofrequency
  • This RF plasma candle 1 is excited by a low voltage RF power supply 9 driven by a computer 11 on board the vehicle provided with said engine. Each multi-filament spark 13 is thus formed from the single tip of the candle.
  • such a multi-filament structure is, during the next phase 15b (between t_1 and t_2 fig.l), heated up to a few thousand 0 C by the electric current supplied by the controlled RF power supply 9.
  • the electrical voltage (substantially Um) applied to the candle remains (approximately) constant throughout this second phase.
  • the hot filaments cause ignition of the mixture in the cylinder of the internal combustion engine to which the combustion chamber 7 is associated.
  • the length L_ (of the order of one cm, fig.l) of the filaments 13 formed at the end of the 15bl phase depends only on the maximum amplitude of the voltage U applied to the tip 1a.
  • the amplitude of the RF voltage Um corresponding to the maximum electrical voltage (or adapted ignition voltage) applied to the tip of the spark plug, is kept stable (constant), the length of the filaments 13 and their number do not change anymore or almost no longer.
  • the degree of branching that is to say the number of bifurcation points, such as those identified 13a, 13b Figure 1
  • the filaments formed during the formation phase are rather straight with few bifurcation points (2-3 at most, typically) which limits the size of the spark.
  • the inventors propose to modify the power supply mode of the RF candle 1, as illustrated in particular in FIG.
  • Figure 3 thus shows such a voltage rise in several stages, here two: 17.1 and 17.2. It is therefore found that with the solution of the invention and in the implementation example shown in FIG. 3, it is not possible, initially, between t_0 and t_10, to increase the electrical voltage until a value UJ 1 just necessary for the formation of the filaments 130 of 1st generation, namely those marked as "a” in particular Figure 5, all originating from the tip of the electrode of the candle.
  • the RF power supply stabilizes the amplitude of the applied voltage and maintains it substantially at Ol for a few ⁇ s (from 2 to 5 ⁇ s in the proposed embodiment) until time t 20.
  • the RF supply increases again (continuously) the amplitude of the spark plug voltage, up to the intermediate voltage U2_ (with of course U2_ greater than Ol).
  • the difference in voltages between the zero voltage and that U1 of the first voltage stage will be greater than the difference in electrical voltages between the electric voltage U1 of the first voltage stage and said matched ignition voltage Um, as shown schematically in FIG. 3.4. Because the diameter of the ionized filaments 130
  • the RF supply further increases the voltage of the candle 1a, causing the birth of the 3rd generation of the filaments 130 "c" from the ends of the filaments of the previous generation.
  • such a multi-filamentary structure is, during the next phase 150b, heated (as above) until a few thousand 0 C by the electric current supplied by the controlled RF power supply 9.
  • the voltage (Um) applied to the candle remains (substantially) constant throughout this second phase, as shown fig.3.
  • the hot filaments cause the ignition of the mixture in the cylinder of the internal combustion engine to which the combustion chamber 7 is associated.
  • a duration of voltage steps between two voltage increases (such as t_10 - t_20 and t_30 - t_40) will be applied greater than the time interval between two successive stages of increase of said voltage (such as t_20 - t_30).
  • the electrical power supply means 9,11 have been adapted to the previous situation of Fig.2 to, as and when the bearings 17.1 ... beyond the first voltage Ul ⁇ d igniting the spark, generating the creation of new branches 130b ... at the end (round (s) full (s)) of the electric spark created at the first level.
  • spark 130 generally formed in this way is characterized by a much higher degree of branching than in the case of the conventional excitation shown schematically in FIG. We can estimate the
  • Ntotal ⁇ 39 is found to be -10 times more than in the case of conventional RF excitation.
  • the total overall length of the spark at the end of its feeding is much greater than in the case of conventional feeding (see figs .1 and 5). This increases the probability of encounter between the hot arc and the fuel / air mixture and thus makes the ignition more efficient.

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  • Ignition Installations For Internal Combustion Engines (AREA)
  • Spark Plugs (AREA)
EP09757711.8A 2008-06-05 2009-05-05 Energieversorgungssteuerung für die zündkerze eines verbrennungsmotors Not-in-force EP2307702B1 (de)

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FR0853737A FR2932229B1 (fr) 2008-06-05 2008-06-05 Pilotage de l'alimentation electrique d'une bougie d'allumage d'un moteur a combustion interne
PCT/FR2009/050818 WO2009147335A2 (fr) 2008-06-05 2009-05-05 Pilotage de l' alimentation electrique d'une bougie d'allumage d'un moteur a combustion interne

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