US3750631A - Fuel injection system controlled by the amount of air drawn in during the suction stroke - Google Patents

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US3750631A
US3750631A US00161192A US3750631DA US3750631A US 3750631 A US3750631 A US 3750631A US 00161192 A US00161192 A US 00161192A US 3750631D A US3750631D A US 3750631DA US 3750631 A US3750631 A US 3750631A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02D—CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F02D41/00—Electrical control of supply of combustible mixture or its constituents
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    • F02D41/18—Circuit arrangements for generating control signals by measuring intake air flow
    • F02D41/182—Circuit arrangements for generating control signals by measuring intake air flow for the control of a fuel injection device
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M69/00—Low-pressure fuel-injection apparatus ; Apparatus with both continuous and intermittent injection; Apparatus injecting different types of fuel
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
    • F02B1/00—Engines characterised by fuel-air mixture compression
    • F02B1/02—Engines characterised by fuel-air mixture compression with positive ignition
    • F02B1/04—Engines characterised by fuel-air mixture compression with positive ignition with fuel-air mixture admission into cylinder
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M2700/00—Supplying, feeding or preparing air, fuel, fuel air mixtures or auxiliary fluids for a combustion engine; Use of exhaust gas; Compressors for piston engines
    • F02M2700/43—Arrangements for supplying air, fuel or auxiliary fluids to a combustion space of mixture compressing engines working with liquid fuel
    • F02M2700/4397—Arrangements for supplying air, fuel or auxiliary fluids to a combustion space of mixture compressing engines working with liquid fuel whereby air or fuel are admitted in the mixture conduit by means other than vacuum or an acceleration pump

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  • ABSTRACT The position of a static plate used to measure the Foreign Application Prior), Data amount of air sucked through the intake manifold con- 1 H P 2 34 49 2 trols the wiper of a potentiometer that is connected to y 19 Germany 0 control either the rate of charging or of discharging of a capacitor that is charged in synchronism with the rog? 123/32 23; tation of the engine crank shaft.
  • the length of time that l d 23/32 1 1 the capacitor or inductor takes to discharge determines l o cal-3c 39 the length of time that the fuel injection valve is open.
  • PATENTEDAUG 7 ms 3.7501531 sum 2 or 3 3y "42:71! IKER FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM CONTROLLED BY THE AMOUNT OF AIR DRAWN IN DURING THE SUCTION STROKE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • the invention relates to an electrically controlled, intermittently operating, fuel injection arrangement for internal combustion engines having an electromagnetic fuel spray valve for each cylinder of the engine.
  • a power output transistor is connected in series with the solenoid that operates the fuel injection valves, a transistor switch being connected to the input of the output transistor and operated in synchronism with the rotation of the engine crank shaft so that the transistor switch is triggered for a period of time that occurs simultaneously with the opening of a fuel injection valve and which determines how long the valve is kept open, the period of time being determined by the discharge time of a capacitor or inductor that is previously stored with energy at a predetermined rate.
  • the quantity of air that is sucked in is not directly measured, but is instead obtained by an inductive pressure sensor, which is positioned downstream of the throttle valve in the intake manifold to measure the pressure there.
  • the inductance of an iron core solenoid connected to the sensor varies in accordance with the pressure changes and determines the period of time that a multivibrator remains in the unstable state, which latter is triggered in synchronism with the rotation of the engine crank shaft.
  • the amount of fuel which is controlled by the sensor and which is injected before the working stroke, must be modified in dependence on the engine speed, for which purpose these known fuel injection arrangements incorporate relatively costly electronic circuits.
  • An object of the invention is an appreciably simpler electronic control of the length of the fuel injection valve opening pulse in a fuel injection arrangement of the kind described in the first paragraph of the preced ing section.
  • the invention consists essentially of electric storage means, electric circuit means connected to the electric storage means and having a first state during which electric energy is added to the electric storage means and a second state during which electric energy is removed from the electric storage means. and a fuel injection valve is opened for the period of time required to remove electric energy from the electric storage means, this period of time being dependent on the amount of energy stored and on the rate at which this energy is removed, air meter means associated with the intake manifold of the engine for providing a quantity representative of the time average of the amount of air sucked through the engine intake manifold, and wherein the electric circuit means includes transducer means for making, in dependence on this quantity, an electric parameter of the electric storage means proportional to the amount of air drawn in during each suction stroke of the engine, so that this period of time is proportional to the amount of air drawn in during each suction stroke.
  • the arrangement of the invention which directly converts a signal corresponding to the time average of the amount of air drawn through the intake manifold into an electric parameter of the storage means that varies in proportion with the amount of air sucked in during each intake stroke, offers an appreciably better accuracy.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows the fuel rangement of the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram showing the principles of the invention
  • FIG. 3 shows'the plot of various voltages against time that occur at different points in the circuit shown in FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram of a form of the invention based upon the circuit of FIG. 2;
  • FIGS. Sa-d show the plot of various voltages against time duringthe charging and discharging cycles of the circuit shown in FIG. 4; Y
  • FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram of another form of the invention based upon the circuit shown in FIG. 2;
  • FIGS. 7, 7a, 8, and 8a show two different embodiments of the static plate that can be used with the fuel injection arinjection arrangement of the invention
  • FIG 9 shows the exponential potentiometer that can be used with the invention.
  • FIG. 10 shows the exponential change in voltage obtained with the potentiometer shown in FIG. 9.
  • the illustrated fuel injection arrangement of the invention is intended for a four cylinder, four stroke, internal combustion engine 10.
  • the arrangement essentially comprises four electromagnetic fuel injection spray valves 11 that are connected by respective fuel conveying pipes 13 to a distributor l2, and an electric motor driven fuel pump l5, a pressure regulator 16 that keeps the fuel at a constant pressure, and an electronic control (to be described) that a triggering means or signal generator 18, which is coupled to the engine cam shaft rotating synchronously with the crank shaft, operates twice during each complete rotation of the crank shaft to produce one rectangular valve opening pulse S. These pulses cause the valves 11 to open.
  • the period T, of the pulse S determines the open time of the valve i1 and therefore the amount of fuel that is forced out of a valve at a nearly constant pressure of 2 atmospheres.
  • the magnet coils 19 of the fuel injection spray valves 11 are connected in series with respective decoupling resistors 20, which latter are connected in common to the output of an amplification and power output stage 21.
  • the stage 21 contains at least one power transistor 22,, the emitter collector path of this transistor being connected in series with the decoupling resistors and the magnet coils 19, which latter are connected at one end to ground.
  • the amount of air sucked into a cylinder during a single suction stroke determines the amount of fuel that can be completely burned during the following power stroke. If the engine is to be used efficiently, little air should remain after the power stroke.
  • an air meter LM which essentially comprises a static plate 30 and an adjustable resistor R of which the movable tap 31 is coupled to the static plate, these components together constitutingadjusting means.
  • the position of the throttle valve is controlled by an accelerator 27.
  • the air meter LM operates in conjunction with a transistor switch TS, the output of-which delivers the control pulse S for the output stage 21.
  • the transistor switchTS includes two feedback, cross-coupled, alternately conducting, transistors, namely an input transistor T, and an output transistor T constituting an electronic switch as well as an energy store, which in the embodiment illustrated is a timing capacitance means in the form ofa single capacitor C, but in a variation of the invention can also be an inductance.
  • the length of time required to discharge the timing capacitance means C determines the open time T, of the valves 11. Before each discharge, the capacitor C must be charged at a definite rate.
  • the charging time is controlled by the signal generator 18, which acts as a switch thatis operated in synchronism with the rotation of the engine crank shaft and connects, during a charging pulse L] that occurs during a predetermined and constant angle of the rotation of the crank shaft, the capacitor C to a source of current that delivers a charging current 1,, during each charging pulse.
  • the signal generator 18, which in practice can be a bistable multivibrator operated by ignition pulses (not shown) to be triggered from one state to the other, is closed during 180 of rotation of the crank shaft and is open during the other 180 of the crank shaft rotation.
  • FIG. 3 the individual suction strokes of the internal combustion engine are indicated by the shaded rectangles. It is also assumed that the capacitor C is charged during the suction strokes for the second cylinder 2 and the fourth cylinder 2,. With the further assumption that the charging current 1,, is held constant during the charging of the capacitor C, the voltage U across the capacitor C increases linearly with time, as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the circuit of P10. 2 begins to discharge the capacitor C immediately after it has been charged, thecharging cycle ending at 0, 360, 720, and so forth of crank shaft rotation.
  • the previously cut off input transistor T is rendered conductive, since, because the output transistor T, is no longer conductive, a sufficient base current can flow through the collector resistor 35 and the coupling resistor'36 to the base emitter path of the input transistor.
  • the charge stored ,in theficapacitor C can flow through the diode 37, which is conductive in this direction, and the collector emitter path of the output transistor T, the discharge current I being held constant by a means E shown symbolically in FIG. 2.
  • the voltage U across the capacitor C falls linearly.
  • the voltage on the right hand plate of the capacitor C has fallen sufficiently so that the output transistor T again conducts, thereby shutting off the input transistor T,. Since the diode 37 prevents a charging current from flowing to the capacitor C when the input transistor T, is non-conductive, the next charging cycle begins only when the next charging pulse L1 connects the charging source A to the capacitor C.
  • FIG. 4 shows a particularly simple form of the invention that'can be used in two different ways, in the firstof which the capacitor C is charged with a charging current .I, that is proportional to the time average of the amount of air Q whereas discharging occurs at a constant discharge current 1 y
  • a second constant current source means comprising a continuously conductive transistor T, of which the emitter is connected by a fixed resistor R, with the positive rail 40, the base being connected to a fixed voltage divider composed of the resistors 41 and 42 so that the transistor operates as an emitter follower.
  • the collector of the discharge transistor T is connected to the right plate of the capacitor C and tothe anode of the diode 38, which latter provides a conductive path for the base current of the transistor T
  • the charging current source A in FIG. 2 is constituted, in FIG. 4, by a first constant current source means comprising a charging transistor T, of which the base is connected to the tap between twoseries-- connected resistors 47 and 48.
  • first and second constant current means shown are broadly referred to as first means and as second means. These two resistors are connected in the collector circuit of a switching transistor T which is conductive only when the signal generator 18 delivers a charging pulse LJ to the base of the transistor T whereby the charging transistor T isalso rendered conductive.
  • This transistor is non-conductive during the interval between two charging pulses.
  • An adjustable resistor R which in design is similar to the resistor R shown in FIG. 1 is provided in the emitter circuit of the charging transistor T so that the charging current J, can'be varied in proportion to the amount of air Q drawn in during each suction stroke.
  • the necessary proportionality between the charging current J A and the amount of air Q can be obtained, for example, by suitable mechanicai design of the resistor R, the resistor being manufactured as a thin or thick film resistor on a ceramic base.
  • the curve b shows the variation with time of the voltage U, across the capacitor C.
  • the voltage across the capacitor reaches a peak value [i that is expressed by the following relationship:
  • q is the volume of air sucked into an individual cylinder during an intake stroke.
  • the peak value 9 thus corresponds to the individual suction stroke or to the amount of air q, equals Q In drawn into a cylinder.
  • the capacitor C can be charged with a current J, that is constant irrespective of-the operating conditions of the engine, whereas the discharge current J, is proportional to the reciprocal of the time average of the amount of air O, that is sucked in.
  • the discharge current .I proportional
  • the fixed resistor R connected to the emitter of transistor T, (see FIG. 4) is replaced by the adjustable resistor R (see FIG. 1).
  • FIG. 5e shows the variation of the voltage with time across the capacitor C The following relationships hold true.
  • this second variation of the circuit shown in FIG. 4 has the advantage that any changes (such as a sudden opening of the throttle valve 28) in the amount of air sucked in occurring while the capacitor C is discharging immediately affects the discharge rate of the latter, so that the period T, is changed, thereby altering the amount of fuel injected. Consequently, the amount of fuel injected is virtually instantaneously adapted to the amount of air sucked in.
  • the two variations of the embodiment shown in FIG. 4' alter the rate at which the capacitor C charges or discharges in dependence on the adjustment of a resistor.
  • the charging or discharging rate of the capacitor is varied by a voltage 14,; the resistor R, which is coupled to the static plate 30, is used as a potentiometer.
  • Respective fixed resistors 44 and 45 connect the emitters of the transistors T and T, to the positive rail 40. Both transistors are connected as emitterfollowers and can be used in either of two different ways, as in the embodiment shown in FIG. 4.
  • a constant discharge current I is obtained by connecting the base of the discharge transistor T to the tap of a bias-adjustment means in the form of a potentiometer P, which latter is connected between the positive rail 40 and the negative rail 50.
  • This potentiometer supplies a constant bias voltage U for the base of the discharge transistor and insures that the latter conducts a constant discharge current 1,.
  • the charging transistor T must conduct a charging current 1,, that is proportional to the time average of the amount of air O, that is sucked in, the position of the static plate 30 being indicative of this amount.
  • the bias voltage U at the base of the charging transistor is varied in dependence on the position of the static plate, the bias adjustment potentiometer P, in FIG. 6 being equivalent to the adjustable resistor R in FIG. 1.
  • the potentiometer P is connected between the positive rail 40 and the collector of the switching transistor T the variable tap (31 in FIG. I) of the potentiometer being connected directly to the base of the transistor T
  • the operation of this form of the embodiment shown in FIG. 6 corresponds to that of the first variation of the embodiment shown in FIG.
  • the illustrated components excluding switch T and its associated biasing resistors, constitute timing means for determining the length of time switch T, remains in the nonconductive state.
  • Charging-discharging means in this embodiment are comprised at the components shown in FIG. 6, excluding capacitance means C and switch T with its associated biasing resistors.
  • the capacitor C is charged by a constant charging current 1,, whereas it is discharged by a discharging current .I that is suited to the amount of air sucked in.
  • the resistor R which is coupled to the static plate 30, is substituted for the potentiometer P, in the base circuit of the discharge transistor T the variable tap 31 being connected to the base of this transistor.
  • the potentiometer P is adjusted to obtain the desired value for the charging current 1,, and is then left unchanged.
  • this second variation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 6 makes it essential that the change in the bias voltage U at the base of the discharge transistor T, is proportional to the reciprocal of the time average of the amount Q of the air as indicated by the position of the static plate 30.
  • the second variation has the great advantage that any changes in the amount of air sucked in during a pulse LJ immediately changes the amount of fuel injected.
  • FIGS. 1, 7, and 8 illustrate particularly advantageous shapes of the intake manifold in the vicinity of the static plate 30.
  • the contour of the intake manifold in that part 55 where the static plate is free to move is such that the area A not closed by the static plate changes exponentially with the movement s (shown as the symbol S in FIG. 7) (s r (b) of the static plate in accordance with the equation:
  • the cxpotential shape of the intake manifold in the vicinity of the static plate has the great advantage that the relative error (AQL/QL) remains constant over the entire range of movement of the static plate. This is an important advantage when it is remembered that the errors tub or As, caused by mechanical factors, cannot be avoided. However, it is exactly when the engine is idling in other words, when small amounts of air are being sucked in that high accuracy is necessary to avoid harmful exhaust.
  • the static plate is constructed as a pivotal flap of which the axis of pivot is preferably vertical.
  • the static plate can be coupled in a very simple manner to the movable tap of the adjustable resistor.
  • the static plate is connected to a relatively long lever which is spaced at distance r from the pivot point 57, the path s thus being equal to rd).
  • the circular static plate 30 is positioned at least approximately centrally in the intake manifold 25 and in the area 55 of the walls of the intake manifold. These walls 55 are rotationally symmetrical about the central axis M.
  • the intake manifold is rectangular in cross-section, the static plate 30 being approximately square.
  • the pivot axis extends horizontally along the lower wall of the intake manifold.
  • the bias voltage U at the base of the charging transistor T must be proportional to the amount of air as measured by the air meter.
  • the voltage U With the previously described preferred construction, in which the walls of the intake manifold have an exponential shape, it is essential that the voltage U, must vary exponentially with the angle of rotation 41. Since it is difficult to mass-produce a potentiometer with an expotential taper with sufficient accuracy, a potentiometer with a linear taper can be used, as shown in FIG. 9, the potentiometer being easily manufactured with thick film techniques on a ceramic base.
  • the potentiometer incorporates a number of at least approximately uniformly spaced taps along the path over which the movable tap 31 slides. in the embodiment shown in FIG. 9, there are three such intermediate taps 63, 64, and 65. Connected in parallel with the linear potentiometer 60 are four fixed resistors 66, 67, 6 8, and 69. The ratios between these resistors are so chosen that the voltage increases exponentially from the first tap 61 to the last tap 62. The absolute values of the resistors are so chosen that the value of each resistor is small compared to that of the parallel connected segment.
  • the fuel-injection system being of the type including at least one electrically operated fuel-injection valve, an arrangement for generating electrical valveopening pulses, comprising in combination an electronic switch having a conductive and a non conductive state, and so connected to said valve as to not effect valve opening when in a first state and so as to effect valve opening when in a second state; triggering means connected to said switch for causing the same to undergo a transition to said second state when the engine crankshaft assumes a predetermined position; timing means for determining the length of time said switch remains in said second state and comprising energy-storing timing capacitance means and chargingdischarging means connected to said capacitance means and including first means operative for effecting a first change of stored energy of said timing capacitance means when said switch is in said first state and second means operative for effecting an opposite second change of stored energy of said timing capacitance means when said switch is in said second state, with at least said second means
  • said charging-discharging means comprises means for causing said first means to effect said first energy change during a predetermined fraction ofa crankshaft rotation.
  • said charging-discharging means comprises means for causing said first means t8 effect said first energy change during a fixed fraction of a crankshaft rotation independently of engine speed.
  • said adjustable constant current source means comprises an adjustable resistor
  • said adjusting means comprises an airflow sensing member mounted in said passage for displacement by the inflowing air to an extent indicative of the air inflow rate and operatively associated with said adjustable resistor for varying the resistance value of the latter.
  • said adjustable constant current source means comprises an emitter-follower transistor, and wherein said adjustable resistor is connected in the emitter branch of said emitter-follower transistor.
  • saidadjustable constant current source means comprises a transistor having a base and having a collectoremitter path connected to said capacitance means for carrying current flowing through said capacitance means during the respective energy change, and biasadjustment means for varying the voltage at the base of said transistor, and wherein said adjusting means com- R0 prises an airflow sensing member mounted in said passage for displacement by the inflowing air to an extent indicative of the air inflow rate and operatively associated with said bias-adjustment meansfor automatically varying the voltage at the base of said transistor in dependence upon said air inflow rate.
  • said bias-adjustment means comprises a potentiometer having a movable tap connected to said base of said transistor.
  • said adjustable constant current source means is said first means, and wherein said adjusting means comprises means for automatically adjusting the current of said first means to a value proportional to said flow rate, and wherein the operation of said second constant current source means is independent of said flow rate.
  • said capacitance means is charged by said. first means during said first energy change and is discharged by said second means during said second energy change
  • said adjusting means comprises means for automatically adjusting the discharging current flowing through said capacitance means to a value inversely proportional to said flow rate, and wherein the opera tion of said first means is independent of said flow rate so that the discharge current of said capacitance means is independent of said flow rate.
  • said adjusting means comprises an airflow sensing member located in said passage and mounted for displacement by the inflowing air to an extent indicative of the air inflow rate, and wherein said sensing member is so mounted so as to reduce the free flow-crosssection of said inflow passage, and wherein said passage and said sensing member are so configurated that as the displacement of said sensing member is increased in equal increments the free fiow-cross-section of said inflow passage increases substantially exponentially.
  • said adjusting means comprises an airflow sensing member in said passage mounted for displacement by the inflowing air to an extent indicative of the air inflow rate
  • said adjustable constant current source means includes a potentiometer comprising a potentiometer resistor and a movable tap slidable along said potentiometer resistor, with equal increments of movement of said tap along said resistor corresponding to equal-value resistance portions of said potentiometer resistor, and a plurality of further resistors each connected in parallel with a respective portion of said potentiometer resistor and having such values as to, impart to said potentiometer an exponential characteristic.
  • timing capacitance means and said chargingdischarging means of said timing means together form a monostahle multivibrator having an input transistor and an output transistor of the same conductivity type, with said input transistor and said output transistor being respectively non-conductive and conductive when said multivibrator is in the stable state thereof, a load resistor connecting the collector of said output transistor to one bias-voltage line, and a feedback resistor connecting the collector of said output transistor to the base of said input transistor, and with said timing capacitance means being connected between the collector of said input transistor and the base of said output transistor, and wherein said second means comprises a transistor having a collector connectedto one terminal of said timing capacitance means, and having a base connected to the movable tap of an adjustable voltage divider and wherein said first means comprises a transistor having a collector connected to the other terminal of said capacitance means and having a base connected to the center tap ofa further voltage divider,
  • said voltage-divider control means comprises a control transistor having a collector connected to one end terminal of said further voltage divider and having an emitter connected to another bias-voltage line, with the other end terminal of said further voltage divider being connected to said one bias-voltage line, and means for applying to the base of said control transistor a voltage sufficient to render the latter conductive only during a v predetermined fraction of a crankshaft rotation.
  • timing capacitance means is a single capacitor.
  • a fuel injection arrangement for an internal combustion engine having an electromagnetic fuel injection valve for each cylinder comprising, in combination, electric storage means; electric circuit means connected to said electric storage means and having a first state during which electric energy is added to said electric storage means and a second state during which electric energy is removed from said electric storage means and a fuel injection valve is opened for the period of time required to remove electric energy from said electric storage means, said'period of time being dependent'on the amount of energy stored and on the rate at which said energy is removed; air meter means associated with the intake manifold of the engine for providing a quantity representative of the time average of the amount of air sucked through the engine intake manifold, and wherein said electric circuit means includes transducer means for making, independence on tive, a load resistor connecting the collector of said output transistor to voltage of one polarity, a feedback resistor connecting said collector to the base of said input transistor, a normally conductive discharge transistor, a first voltage divider connected between voltage of the other polarity and said voltage of.
  • the tap of said first voltage divider being connected to the base of said discharge transistor, one plate of said capacitor being connected to the collector of said discharge transistor so that the latter conducts the discharge current of said capacitor, a charging transistor, the other plate of said capacitor being connected to the collector of said charging transistor so that the latter can conduct the charging current of said capacitor, a second voltage divider connected to said voltage of one polarity, switch means for connecting said second voltage divider in synchronism with the rotation of the engine crank shaft to said voltage of the other polarity, the tap of said second voltage divider being connected to the base of said charging transistor, said charging transistor and said discharge transistor being of the same conductivity type and opposite to the input and output transistors, and respective resistors connecting the emitters of said charging transistor and said discharge transistor to said voltage of one polarity.
  • said switch means includes a switching transistor the collectorand emitter of said switching transistor being respectively connected to one end of said second voltage divider and said voltage of the other polarity, said switch means further including signal generator means for making said switching transistor conductive over a predetermined angle of rotation of the crankshaft of the engine.

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