Fiat Auto S.p.a.

Fiat Societa Per Azioni

Eraldo Giaccardi

Vittorio Di Nunzio

Sergio Saluzzo

Alessandro Dassetto

Claudio Ampala

Vito Scartezzini

The device measures the number of revolutions completed by the shaft of a permanent magnet electric motor in a period of time during which it is set in motion by the effect of its connection to a respective electrical supply source, essentially by means of calculation of the integral of the counter-electromotive force which the motor develops in the aforementioned period of time.

Device for measuring the number of revolutions of the shaft of a

The device comprises a primary winding in which the spark energy is stored to be transferred rhythmically to a secondary winding with respective voltage step-up transformers acting between the secondary winding and the spark plugs. An amperometric resistor is arranged in series with the diode through which the current flows when the energy is transferred to the plugs. For each spark, there is a corresponding voltage peak across the terminals of the resistor, whereby a failure to detect the presence of the peak (which is usually converted into a square-wave signal) identifies the absence of a spark.

Ignition device for internal combustion engines, particularly for

The device essentially comprises an auxiliary coil for storing the ignition energy, and a transformer for each spark plug. It is thus possible to prepolarize each transformer in the proper sequence with a current opposite that applied during discharge, whereby a transformer of smaller dimensions can be associated with each spark plug while the performance remains unchanged from that of conventional systems.

Static ignition device for internal combustion engines

The spark plugs (1a, 1b; 2a, 2b; 3a, 3b; 4a, 4b) associated with each cylinder (1, 2, 3, 4) are supplied by respective ignition coils (21, 22, 23, 24) preferably mounted on the plugs themselves.

Multiple-spark ignition system for internal combustion engines,

A control circuit for cyclically operating one or more piezoelectric transducers to transmit and receive ultrasonic signals is disclosed. The circuit comprises a power transistor in series with an induction coil and controlled by a timing circuit to conduct for a short time during each cycle. As the power transistor cuts off a high voltage pulse is generated by the induction coil and this is fed via a zener diode as the transmission signal to the or each piezoelectric transducer across which is connected a switching circuit comprising a potential divider and a pair of opposite polarity diodes which automatically feed off the high voltage transmission signal to earth and pass low strength received signals to an amplifier.

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Turin, Italy

Eraldo Giaccardi