Classifications

• • 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
  • F02P11/02—Preventing damage to engines or engine-driven gearing
• • 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
  • F02P1/00—Installations having electric ignition energy generated by magneto- or dynamo- electric generators without subsequent storage
  • F02P1/08—Layout of circuits
  • F02P1/086—Layout of circuits for generating sparks by discharging a capacitor into a coil circuit
• • 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
  • F02P5/00—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor
  • F02P5/04—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor automatically, as a function of the working conditions of the engine or vehicle or of the atmospheric conditions
  • F02P5/145—Advancing or retarding ignition; Control therefor automatically, as a function of the working conditions of the engine or vehicle or of the atmospheric conditions using electrical means
  • F02P5/155—Analogue data processing
  • F02P5/1553—Analogue data processing by determination of elapsed angle with reference to a particular point on the motor axle, dependent on specific conditions
  • F02P5/1556—Analogue data processing by determination of elapsed angle with reference to a particular point on the motor axle, dependent on specific conditions using a stepped control, dependent on speed
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
  • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
  • Y02T10/10—Internal combustion engine [ICE] based vehicles
  • Y02T10/40—Engine management systems

Definitions

• Ignition system for an internal combustion engine particularly for use in a chain saw or the like
• the present invention refers to an ignition system for an internal-combustion engine, in particular for use in a chain saw or the like, comprising a magnetically conducting core having at least three legs and supporting a charging winding and a triggering winding, a flywheel having at least one magnetic field generating member adapted to cooperate with the magnetically conducting core to cause, when passing, voltages to be induced in the windings, and an electronic switch means adapted to trigger, in response to a trigger pulse generated by the triggering winding, the discharge of a first capacitor, which has been charged by a voltage generated in the charging winding, via the primary of an ignition coil the secondary of which comprises a spark plug.
• a magneti- cally conducting core in the ignition system is provided with three legs of which, seen in the direction of rotation of the flywheel, a first leg has a first triggering winding while the centre leg has a second triggering winding.
• the third leg supports the charging winding which generates energy for a capacitor which by discharge generates an ignition spark at the secondary of an ignition coil.
• the triggering winding provided on the centre leg is active causing the ignition advance value to be moderate so that backstroke is avoided.
• Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the ignition system according to the invention as seen in a direction perpendicular to a flywheel rotating in the plane of the drawing;
• Fig. 2 shows a section of the ignition system of Fig. 1, seen from above;
• Fig 3 shows the ignition system of Fig. 1, seen from the left side;
• Fig. 4-6 show the ignition system according to Fig. 1 with the flywheel in different positions;
• Fig. 7-9 show the ignition system of Fig. 1 wherein the trigge ⁇ ring coil has been wound about a single leg according to prior art technique and with the flywheel in the same positions as shown in Figs. 4-6;
• Fig. 10 shows, in principle, the variation of the ignition advance with speed in the embodiment with the single leg supporting the triggering winding according to prior art technique and in the embodiment with two legs supporting the triggering winding according to the invention, respectively;
• Fig. 11 shows an electric circuit diagram for the ignition system in a first embodiment of the invention
• Fig. 12 shows an electric circuit diagram for the ignition system in a second embodiment of the invention
• Fig. 13 shows a curve chart for voltages appearing in the ignition system
• Fig. 14 shows a diagram in which both the curves for the triggering voltage U ⁇ and for the voltage U ⁇ , genera ⁇ ted in a power supply coil for the supply of associa- ted electronic equipment, have been drawn in.
• Fig. 1 there is shown the mechanical structure of a magnetic type ignition system according to the invention.
• the ignition system is adapted to be used in a two-stroke internal combustion engine for a chain saw.
• the engine is of a type commonly used and will not be described in further detail.
• the ignition system comprises a magnetically conducting iron core 10 provided with three legs 11, 12, 13.
• the core is mounted on the chain saw to cooperate with a magnetic field generating device 15 fixed to the flywheel 14 on the engine and having the shape of a permanent magnet provided with poles marked by N and S, respectively.
• the flywheel 14 rotates in the direction indicated by an arrow in the drawing.
• the iron core 10 supports an ignition coil 17 comprising, in the usual way, a primary 18 and a secondary 19 (fig. 11).
• a spark plug 20, schematically indicated in Fig. 11, is connected to the secondary.
• a charging winding 21 is supported, the induced voltage of which being used to charge a capacitor 26 (fig. 11) for the storage of ignition energy.
• a triggering winding 22 is wound about the legs 11 and 12 and this winding is provided for triggering of an electronic switch. The disposition of the different windings clearly appears in Figs. 1-3.
• the ignition coil 17, the triggering winding 22 and the charging winding 21 are supported on bobbins disposed in a plastic cup 25 provided with suitable holes for the legs of the iron core.
• the plastic cup 25 is intended to contain a printed circuit board suppor ⁇ ting the electronic components of the ignition system. After the components have been mounted the plastic cup is filled with resin or the like for protection against moisture and other external influence.
• FIG. 4-6 An ignition system according to the invention is shown with the flywheel in different positions and with the triggering winding 22 being wound about the legs 11 and 12. As shown by flow arrows in Fig. 4-6 flux will pass through the triggering winding in all positions of the flywheel indicated in these drawing figures.
• radii have been drawn in which have been designated 0°, 10° and 20° and which enclose corresponding arcs as counted from the radius 0°.
• Figs. 3 4 and 5 diagrams have been drawn which show the triggering voltage U ⁇ as a function of the angular position in the area between the radii 0° and 20°.
• FIG. 10 there is shown a corresponding pricipal diagram of the voltage in the triggering winding as a function of the turning angle of the crankshaft (the number of crankshaft degrees) .
• Uppermost in Fig. 10 the state is shown for the case where the triggering winding is wound about a single leg of the iron core.
• the voltage curve becomes extended and has a moderate amplitude.
• the voltage increases considerably quicker and will also reach a higher amplitude.
• the flywheel can be so mounted with respect to the iron core that a large ignition advance is obtained at high engine speeds without the ignition advance becoming inadmissably high at idle speed and start, for example involving the risk of backstroke to appear at start.
• the continued description will take place in connection with an electric circuit diagram for an ignition system according to a first embodiment of the invention, shown in Fig. 11.
• the main components of the system comprise the windings on the iron core referred to above, viz. the charging winding 21 and the trigge ⁇ ring winding 22, a charging capacitor 26, the ignition coil 17 with the primary 18 and the secondary 19, the spark plug 20 connected to the secondary 19, and an electronic switch in the shape of a thyristor 27.
• the charging winding 21 is connected to one terminal of the capacitor 26 while the other terminal of the capacitor, via the primary 18 of the ignition coil, is connected to a common connecting point represented by a conductor 30 having the reference potential zero or ground.
• the primary is connected in parallel with a diode 31 having its direction of conduction towards the conductor 30.
• the thyristor has its anode connected to the charging capacitor 26 and its cathode connected to the common reference point, i.a. the conductor 30.
• the thyristor has a trigger circuit 32 mainly constituted by the triggering winding 22 and the collector-emitter path of a transistor 33. Accordingly, the collector of the transistor is connected to the triggering winding 22, being connected in parallel to a resistor 34, whereas the emitter of the transistor is connected to the control electrode of the thyristor. Further, said emitter is connected to the conductor 30 via a resistor 35. Finally, via a resistor 36, the base of the transistor is connected to the junction between the diode 29, the charging capacitor 26 and the anode of the thyristor 27.
• the ignition system according to the embodiment of Fig. 11 operates in the following way. Reference is also made to Fig. 13 showing the time curve forms for different voltages appe ⁇ aring in the ignition system.
• the flywheel 14 with its magnet 15 passes the iron core 10 voltages are generated in the charging winding 21 and in the triggering winding 22, respec- tively, having the time curve forms shown in Fig. 13.
• the voltage U L in the charging winding has a positive polarity charging current flows via the conductor 28 and the diode 29 to the capacitor 26 causing the latter to be charged.
• the charging voltage U L has two periods in which charging current flows of which the latter of the two periods gives the most important contribution of charge to the capacitor.
• the rising part of the triggering voltage is of interest.
• the voltage has been rising to a certain level it causes current to flow through the transistor 33 and the resistor 35 resulting in the thyristor being ignited.
• the capacitor 26 is discharged via the thyristor and the primary 18. In the usual way this causes a high voltage to be generated in the secondary 19 and this high voltage causes a spark in the spark plug 20.
• the useful part of the lapse of the triggering voltage extends over a wide area, in reality over more than 20 crankshaft degrees. According to the invention, this is achieved by the triggering winding being wound about the two legs 11 and 12 of the iron core 10.
• the diagram illustrates the conditions at idle speed and at the maximum speed, about 14.000 rpm, the triggering voltage curve is of course compressed and the voltage reaches a considerably higher peak value due to the steep flux derivative at these high engine speeds.
• FIG. 11 the discharge through the primary 18 of the ignition coil takes place in one direction only and a so-called DC-spark appears.
• FIG. 12 there is shown an alternative embodiment of the ignition system in which an AC-spark is obtained by permitting, during the discharge of the capacitor 26, the direction of flow of the current to change a number of times in the primary 18.
• the diode 31 has been omitted and instead a diode 37 connected anti-parallel across the thyristor 27.
• the resistor 36 has been replaced by two resistors 38, 39 connected in series, the junction between the two resistors being connected to the conductor 30 via a capacitor 40.
• the trigger circuit must be dimensioned also with regard to another phenomenon.
• the thyristor 27 between the anode and the control electrode there is a parasitic capacitance C p which at high engine speeds may conduct a current which is not negligible through the resistor 35. If in this case the transistor 33 should begin to conduct, due to an increasing voltage on its base, and as a result a possible positive voltage be transferred to the emitter side of the transistor driving additional current through the resistor 35 the thyris- tor 27 might turn on during a period of the capacitor 26 being charged. If in this period the thyristor should be conducting the result would be that the capacitor 26 will not receive charge and ignition sparks would appear at the wrong moment in the engine.
• the values of the resistors 38 and 39 have been chosen such that the voltage on the capacitor 26 must rise to ca 100 volts before the transistor starts conducting.
• the triggering voltage is negative and cannot cause triggering of the thyristor.
• Ignition systems using energy storage in a capacitor has a burning time which is shorter than in systems where the energy is stored in a coil. In case of large cylinder volumes this may cause an uncertain ignition.
• the arrangement of windings shown in fig. 1 offers obvious advantages. As shown in Fig. 1 the ignition coil is mounted on the leg 11 while the triggering winding is wound about the legs 11 and 12.
• a power supply coil for powering of associated electronic equipment.
• the ignition coil 17 has been mounted separately outside of the iron core, for example supported by the plastic cup 25 in an area 24 situated to the right of the iron core, see fig. 1.
• a power supply coil (not shown) has been provided and voltage from this coil can be obtained via a diode and a smoothing capacitor in a way commonly used and not described in further detail.
• one condition is that power must not be drawn in periods when the triggering voltage is intended to trigger the discharge of the capacitor 26, i.a. in the area in Fig. 13 where the triggering voltage increases linearly and has a positive polarity. This has been illustrated in Fig.

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