Patent ID: 7097447
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: F23Q,H01F

Abstract:
1. An electric gas lighter for generating sparks at one or more burners of a cooking range, comprising: a transformer having a primary winding, and a secondary winding divided into a number of coils and having a predetermined number of output terminals; the coils being wound on respectively axially adjacent portions of a substantially cylindrically symmetrical, tubular drum forming part of a supporting member made of electrically insulating material and formed in one piece with supports projecting tangentially with respect to the drum and each supporting a respective said terminal; wherein the coils are connected electrically to one another in series to form said secondary winding, which has been obtained by continuously winding without making cuts an insulated electrically conducting wire onto the drum to form said coils; the wire being wound alternately onto the drum in an opposite direction for each coil; and the winding direction of the wire being inverted upon the wire engaging a respective common terminal between two adjacent coils.