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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7069921 | Control circuit for capacitor discharge ignition system A capacitor discharge ignition (CDI) system for a light-duty spark ignition combustion engine includes an analog control circuit having a charging circuit, a trigger circuit and a shutdown circuit. In response to activation of a kill-switch, the shutdown circuit cau... | 07/04/2006 |
| 5553595 | Fuel system with fuel vapor estimating feature A fuel system for feedback controlling an air-to-fuel ratio to maintain an ideally combustible air-fuel mixture includes an evaporation control device, which stores fuel vapors from a fuel tank and purges the fuel vapors stored therein into an intake syst... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5394855 | Multiple applied spark ignition An ignition system for an internal combustion engine which includes a distributor and electronic control unit, a plurality of ignition coils, a like plurality of silicone controlled rectifiers for each spark plug, and with each spark plug having a like pl... | 03/07/1995 |
| 4710681 | Process for burning a carbonaceous fuel using a high-energy alternating current wave A process for burning a carbonaceous fuel is disclosed. This process involves the steps of providing a combustion chamber equipped with a spark gap, introducing the fuel into the chamber, providing a high-energy a.c. wave, and connecting the wave to one o... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4448182 | Ignition system for internal combustion engines An ignition coil includes a primary winding, an auxiliary primary winding and an ignition high voltage generating secondary winding which are wound on the same core. The primary current from the generating coil of a magneto flows to the base of a transist... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4412522 | Magnet ignition device Disclosed is an ignition device which can provide a good ignition timing characteristic over an engine speed range from low to high by using a first angular signal corresponding to a given crank position of an engine and a second angular signal correspond... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4404952 | Magnet ignition device A magnet ignition device is provided with an angular position detecting device for producing a first angular signal with one polarity corresponding to an angular position of a given crankshaft of an engine and a second angular signal with the other polari... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4380224 | Ignition system for an internal combustion engine An ignition system for an internal combustion engine that provides automatically advanced timing over a predetermined range of engine speeds. The ignition system includes a timing circuit (100) that controls the resistance and hence voltage across a capac... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4270510 | Ignition system for an internal combustion engine An ignition system for an internal combustion engine having a transistor switch means connected across a primary winding of an ignition coil wherein a base current input terminal of the transistor switch means is connected through a coil to an igniting ex... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4169446 | CDI Method and system with in phase coils A capacitor discharge ignition system employing in-phase trigger, charge and shut-off coils, in a circuit which provides force commutation of the electronic switch and which provides compensation for variations in temperature, inhibition of extraneous tri... | 10/02/1979 |
| 3941111 | Ignition system In one embodiment, a capacitive discharge ignition system has a charge coil and an ignition coil including primary and secondary windings wound on a common stator structure. The charge coil is coupled to the primary winding of the ignition coil by an SCR ... | 03/02/1976 |
