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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2007
Don Andreas Josephine Kees, Billericay, GB;
Stephan Daren Carroll, Wadhurst, GB;
Don Andreas Josephine Kees, Billericay, GB;
Stephan Daren Carroll, Wadhurst, GB;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An internal combustion enginehas a cylinder headslideably supporting one or more poppet valves. At least a portion of one of the poppet valvesin each combustion chamber of the engineforms in combination with one or more secondary electrodesa number of electrode pairs between each of which an electrical discharge is selectively caused to flow so as to initiate combustion in the respective combustion chamber. The electrode pairs may be formed at differing locations within each combustion chamber so as to improve combustion efficiency.