Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Horibe

Hideki Yukawa

Hidetoshi Suzuki

Takuma Ayuzawa

Masahiko Yamaguchi

A battery charging apparatus comprising a controller to control on-off controllable switch elements of an AC power source output short circuit and including a first control section to control the on-off controllable switch elements so that they are at an on-state when an instantaneous terminal voltage of a battery exceeds a first set value and a second control section to control the on-off switch elements so that they are at an on-state when an average voltage of the battery exceeds a second set value and serving to control them when a power source switch is closed.

Battery charging apparatus

An ignition control system and an ignition control method for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle which are capable of permitting the internal combustion engine to exhibit ideal ignition characteristics optimum for each of gear positions of a gear transmission of the engine. The ignition characteristics of the internal combustion engine optimum for each of the gear positions are set depending upon the gear position discriminated by a gear position discriminator, to thereby determine the ignition position according to the so-set ignition characteristics. Such construction permits the ignition characteristics to be changed over depending upon the gear position, thus, the ignition of the engine may be carried out constantly at the optimum ignition position.

System and method for controlling ignition of internal combustion engine

An ignition system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed which is adapted to carry out the comparison between an integrating voltage of a first integrating circuit and that of a second integrating circuit by means of a comparator to obtain advance characteristics. An ignition operation allowable interval detection signal generating circuit of the ignition system comprises a charge control transistor turned on when a first pulse signal is generated, a signal accumulating capacitor charged to a given voltage through the transistor, and a discharge control transistor for momentarily discharging the capacitor when a second pulse signal is generated. Such construction of the detection signal generating circuit allows the structure of the ignition system to be significantly simplified. Also, the connection of a speed-up capacitor between a base of the first integrating circuit and an emitter thereof permits the first capacitor to be charged to a substantially constant initial voltage without being affected by an ambient temperature. Further, a reset circuit may be provided with a malfunction preventing capacitor to prevent the shortening of duration of spark.

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Numazu, Japan

Hiroyuki Horibe