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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul Anthony Harris, Walsall, EN;
Assignee:
The Lucas Electrical Company Limited, Birmingham, EN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1231 / ; 3072 / ;
Abstract
A spark ignition system includes a variable reluctance pick-up producing output pulses when sparks are required. A capacitor is connected across the pick-up in series with a resistor and stores the integral of the pick-up output. Two voltage comparators compare the voltages on the capacitor and the resistor with threshold levels and a spark is only produced when both voltages exceed the threshold levels, so as to minimise the risk of spurious signals in the pick-up producing a spark.