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Article: Texas Inventors Develop Single Ignition Coil Energy Management Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 24, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 24 -- Stephen C. Masters and Douglas B. Waits, both of El Paso, Texas, have developed a system and a method of managing the energy stored in a single ignition coil of a distributor inductive ignition for an engine.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The engine comprises a plurality of cylinders and the ignition coil has a primary coil current. The ignition coil has a stored energy and a released energy during an ignition period. A pre-dwell time period and a pre-dwell current level is determined. The stored energy of the ignition coil and the released energy of the ignition coil are balanced during the ignition period at least in part by dwelling the ...