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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Applicants:
Tomoki Fukushima, Wako, JP;
Yoshihisa Shinogi, Wako, JP;
Inventors:
Tomoki Fukushima, Wako, JP;
Yoshihisa Shinogi, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2006.01); F02D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a failure detection system of coils that produce outputs in response to rotation of a crankshaft of a general-purpose engine (including a power coil that produces an output indicative of the engine speed), the outputs produced by the coils are inputted to determine whether the coils produce the outputs, and it is discriminated that one of the coils (i.e., power coil) has failed when the coil does not produce the output, thereby enabling detection of failure such as wire breaking of the power coil and preventing overrunning of the engine and other such problems.