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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Victor James, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Ryan Lee Baker, Dearborn Heights, MI (US);
Dennis Carl Krzyske, New Boston, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02P 3/05 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02P 3/05 ;
Abstract
An engine cylinder firing event is intentionally defeated by clipping the flyback voltage of the ignition system primary coil winding under the control of a misfire generator that develops a misfire logic signal from ignition dwell events and user inputs and also develops a signal indicative of which cylinder firing event was defeated.