Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Robert Dodd

Stephan Daren Carroll

Andy Scarisbrick

Geoff Dearden

Steve Keen

Roy Clissold

Tom Shenton

John McCulloch

A distributor is described for a multi-cylinder laser ignited internal combustion engine. The distributor includes a shaft rotatable by the engine and a plurality of flat reflective surfaces on the shaft. The surfaces lie in planes normal to the axis of rotation of the shaft and are axially staggered from one another along the length of the shaft. An optical transmitter directs light from a laser source to impinge at an angle sequentially on the reflective surfaces as the shaft rotates, and a plurality of optical receivers spaced from one another each receive the light reflected from a respective one of the mirror surfaces and direct the reflected light to a respective one of the engine cylinders.

Distributor for engine with laser ignition

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Clayton, United Kingdom

Robert Dodd