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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2016
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Guoming G. Zhu, Novi, MI (US);
Kevin D. Moran, Trenton, MI (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
An ionization detector that reduces the filtering effects of the ignition coil inductances by shorting an inductance of a primary winding of the ignition coil. The ionization detector includes a bias voltage source and an inductance control switch. The bias voltage source supplies electric voltage across an electric gap of a spark plug for detecting ionization within the combustion chamber. The inductance control switch is electrically parallel with a primary winding of an ignition coil and is operable to short an inductance of the primary winding.