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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1986
Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Kariya, JP;
Abstract
An ignition system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The ignition system includes a timing signal detector responsive to the rotation speed of an engine to generate a pulse signal including a leading edge and a trailing edge corresponding to the ignition timing and having a predetermined duty cycle, a triangular wave generator for generating a triangular wave voltage synchronized with the trailing edge of the pulse signal, a voltage storing circuit for storing the voltage level of the triangular wave voltage in synchronism with the leading edge of the pulse signal, a voltage divider for dividing the stored voltage in the voltage storing circuit to generate a reference voltage, a comparator for comparing the reference voltage and the triangular wave voltage to detect a difference therebetween, a charging and discharging controller for correcting the stored voltage in the voltage storing circuit so as to reduce to zero the difference at the leading edge of the pulse signal, a threshold voltage generator for generating a threshold voltage which is offset from the stored voltage by an amount corresponding to the desired dwell time of an ignition coil, and an energization controller for controlling the dwell time of the ignition coil in accordance with the result of a comparison between the threshold voltage and the triangular wave voltage.