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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1980
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1977
David H Fox, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Robert L Kuhn, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A high voltage distributor is reduced significantly in size by utilizing a dielectric fluid medium having a high dielectric constant between adjacent spark plug contacts. The distributor includes a fluid-tight chamber which contains the fluid medium, a rotor, a common high voltage supply contact and a plurality of spark plug contacts concentrically disposed to provide a metal-to-metal conduction path with the rotor. The rotor defines an electrically conducting path between the common high voltage supply contact and sequentially selected spark plug contacts, and contains a magnetic element which is magnetically coupled to a corresponding magnet at one end of a rotationally driven shaft, located external to the fluid-tight chamber.