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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1981
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1979
Bob O Burson, East Longmeadow, MA (US);
R. E. Phelon Company, Inc., East Longmeadow, MA (US);
Abstract
A breakerless magneto ignition system having a stator assembly including an ignition coil and core. A solid state gate turn-off switch (GTO) is connected by its anode-cathode electrodes in circuit with the primary winding of the ignition coil for conducting primary current. A solid state switching component is connected in circuit with the control electrode or gate of the GTO and with a capacitor which is charged by current generated in the primary winding in one direction as a result of magneto rotation. The stator assembly includes a trigger coil circumferentially spaced from a leg of the core of the ignition coil a distance approximately equal to the edge distance of the magneto to provide a trigger pulse. The trigger pulse is applied to a control electrode of the solid state switching device for switching the device to its conductive state whereby the charge on said capacitor provides a voltage polarity which causes the main current flow in the GTO to be shunted by its gate electrode from its anode-cathode path, thereby opening the primary circuit to cause an ignition pulse to be induced in the secondary winding of the ignition coil.