Ignition device for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11098689-B2
Application number	US-201916963893-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2019
Priority date	Feb 1, 2018
Publication date	Aug 24, 2021
Grant date	Aug 24, 2021

Abstract

It is made possible to control ignition appropriately.An ignition device 1 for an internal combustion engine includes a spark coil 50 including: a primary side coil 51 connected to a direct current power supply 40 and a secondary side coil 52 magnetically connected to the primary side coil 51 and connected to an ignition plug 60; a switch element 30 that performs switching between energization and interruption of primary current I1 to the primary side coil 51; and a switch element controlling circuit 20 that controls the switch element 30 on the basis of an ignition controlling signal 51 supplied from an ECU 10. A turn-on delay adjustment circuit 22 that delays a control timing of the switch element 30 is disposed between the ECU 10 and the switch element 30 such that first resonance noise generated due to interruption of the primary current I1 to the primary side coil 51 is reduced.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An ignition device for an internal combustion engine, comprising:
a spark coil including a primary side coil connected to a direct current power supply, and a secondary side coil magnetically connected to the primary side coil and connected to an ignition plug;
a switch element configured to perform switching between energization and interruption of primary current to the primary side coil; and
a switch element controlling unit configured to control the switch element on a basis of an ignition controlling signal supplied from an electronic controlling device, wherein
a delaying unit that delays a control timing of the switch element is disposed between the electronic controlling device and the switch element such that first resonance noise generated due to interruption of the primary current to the primary side coil is reduced, the delaying unit comprising:
a time counting unit configured to count an interruption time period of the ignition controlling signal, wherein
the delaying unit delays the control timing of the switch element on a basis of the interruption time period.

2. An ignition device for an internal combustion engine comprising:
a spark coil including a primary side coil connected to a direct current power supply, and a secondary side coil magnetically connected to the primary side coil and connected to an ignition plug;
a switch element configured to perform switching between energization and interruption of primary current to the primary side coil; and
a switch element controlling unit configured to control the switch element on a basis of an ignition controlling signal supplied from an electronic controlling device, wherein
a delaying unit that delays a control timing of the switch element is disposed between the electronic controlling device and the switch element such that first resonance noise generated due to interruption of the primary current to the primary side coil is reduced, wherein
the delaying unit delays a control timing of the switch element such that second resonance noise generated due to energization of the primary current to the primary side coil by the first resonance noise has a reverse phase to a phase of the first resonance noise.

3. The ignition device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 2 , wherein
the delaying unit causes, when the ignition controlling signal becomes lower than a threshold value, the switching element to interrupt the primary current to the primary side.

4. The ignition device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the delaying unit controls, where the interruption time period is longer than an oscillation period of the first resonance noise, the switch element on the basis of the ignition controlling signal.

5. The ignition device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the delaying unit controls, where the interruption time period is shorter than an oscillation period of the first resonance noise, the switch element on the basis of the ignition controlling signal.

6. The ignition device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a delay amount map in which a delay amount of the control timing of the switch element according to a type of the ignition controlling signal supplied from the electronic controlling device is recorded, wherein
the delaying unit selects the delay amount according to the type of the ignition controlling signal on a basis of the delay amount map.

Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Shima Yasuo
• Shibata Koji
• Kobayashi Yoichiro

Classifications

• F02P3/0552 Primary

  Opening or closing the primary coil circuit with semiconductor devices · CPC title

• F02P3/0407 Primary

  Opening or closing the primary coil circuit with electronic switching means (F02P3/045 - F02P3/055 take precedence) · CPC title

• F02P9/002

  Control of spark intensity, intensifying, lengthening, suppression (by means of current control in the storage devices F02P3/05, F02P3/09, during starting F02P15/12) · CPC title

• F02P3/051

  Opening or closing the primary coil circuit with semiconductor devices · CPC title