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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2014
Borgwarner Ludwigsburg Gmbh, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Michael Eberhardt, NeckargemĂĽnd, DE;
Martin Allgaier, Ludwigsburg, DE;
BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Abstract
What is described is a method for igniting a fuel/air mixture in a combustion chamber of an engine, wherein a pencil, which is electrically insulated with respect to walls of the combustion chamber and contains a heating resistor, is electrically heated to a temperature of at least 800° C. in the combustion chamber of the engine by applying a heating voltage, and a high voltage of at least 500 V, which is different from the heating voltage, is applied to the pencil and thereby ions are generated in the combustion chamber by field emission of electrons. The invention additionally relates to an ignition system and a glow plug.