An object of the present invention is to provide an ignition control device for an internal combustion engine that exhibits improved response characteristics in turning OFF operation of a voltage-controlled type semiconductor element. In this respect, the ...

An embodiment of a plasma ignition system for an internal combustion engine having up to N cylinders includes a power splitter, N phase shifters, N amplifiers, a power combiner network, and up to N radiation devices. The power splitter divides an input RF ...

An ignition device of the present invention repeatedly applies a high voltage across electrodes of an ignition plug with work of a high voltage generating circuit. In a combustion chamber that has a gas flow therein, active species produced by an initial d...

An ignition control device is applied to an engine configured to generate one or more discharges within an ignition period. Regarding the device, a discharge voltage within first period or an amount of fuel included in the gas is referred to as a first par...

An ignition system and method of multicharge ignition are presented. The system comprisies an ignition coil (16) having primary (18) and secondary (20) windings and a control unit (30) configured to operate charging and discharging phases of the ignition c...

The invention relates to a method of igniting a spark in an electrical plug provided in a circuit and having a discharge gap for yielding a plurality of consecutive spatially distributed sparks per single ignition event, wherein the method comprises the st...

A multichannel electronic-ignition control device, including a control circuit (10) and a plurality of driving stages (8), connected to the control circuit (10) and each having a respective high-voltage terminal (11a), for driving an inductive load (3, 3a)...

An engine operating region in which two ignition plugs ignite at different ignition timings is restricted to a region (phase-difference ignition region) where the effect of different ignition timings is remarkably achieved. In the operating region other th...

An ignition system, for an internal combustion engine, having improved ignition performance through attachment of a plurality of spark plugs to each cylinder and featuring less susceptibility of the spark plugs to contamination is disclosed. In a multi-ign...