Patent GB-1458275-A (GB)
Title: Device for electronically producing and regulating the instant of ignition in ignition systems for internal combustion engines
IPC: F02P5/155
Filed: 1974-01-11
Abstract: 1458275 Ignition systems; timing ignition ROBERT BOSCH GmbH 11 Jan 1974 [12 Jan 1973] 01493/74 Heading F1B A device for electronically producing and regulating the instant of ignition in an I.C. engine ignition system in dependence upon operational variables of the engine comprises an ignition voltage producing stage alternatively controllable, in dependence upon the engine speed, by one or the  other of two pulse producing circuits the first circuit comprising a pulse producing stage, controllable by a signal generator connected to the engine crank-shaft, which is directly connectible to the ignition voltage producing stage, and the second circuit comprising a sawtooth generator controlled by the pulse producing stage and whose output is supplied to one input of a comparator and also to one input of a multiplier via a maximum valve store, the other input of the multiplier being arranged to receive the output of an adding stage in which measured values, corresponding to the engine variables, are collated, the output of the multiplier being connected to a second input of the comparator and the output of the comparator being connectible to the ignition voltage producing stage. An inductive, optical or other pulse generator driven by the engine crank-shaft generator pulses A, Figs. 1 and 2, e.g., beginning 30 degrees ahead of T.D.C. and terminating at T.D.C., the pulses being fed at 1 to a differentiator 2 which emits brief pulses B, C coinciding respectively with the leading edges and trailing edges of the pulses A. At low engine speeds an ignition voltage producing stage 7, comprising a monostable 70 and a conventional ignition device 71, is fed with the T.D.C. pulses C via a switch 6. At higher speeds, the switch 6 is in the position shown, in which it feeds the ignition stage 7 with pulses H derived from the before-T.D.C. pulses B via circuitry which varies the timing of the pulses in accordance with engine operating variables. The circuitry comprises a monostable 8 which converts the pulses B into square pulses D of uniform width, the leading edges of which coincide with the leading edges of the pulses B. The pulses D are fed to a further monostable 9 to generate square pulses E of uniform width and delayed so that their leading edges coincide with the trailing edges of the pulses D. The pulses E, D are fed to a sawtooth generator 10 as synchronized pulses to start and stop, respectively, each sawtooth F. The peak valve U 1  of each sawtooth voltage is sampled by a sampler 11 and fed to a threshold device 12. The voltage U 1  which is inversely proportional to engine speed, is compared in the device 12 with a predetermined voltage, the resultant output from the device being used to operate the switch 6 whereby it permits passage of the pulses C at low speeds and the pulses H at higher speeds. The voltage U 1  is adjusted in dependence upon acceleration in a correction stage 16 comprising a low-pass circuit 160 and a high-pass circuit 161 in parallel, the adjusted voltage U2 being fed to a multiplier 18 and also, via a function generator 17 which further modifies to a voltage U3, to one of the inputs of an adder 19, the other inputs 20, 21 of which are fed with engine variables such as temperature and vacuum. Air-pressure and air humidity may also be used as controlling factors. The output U 4  of the adder 19 is fed as the other input of the multiplier 18, the output voltage Us of which is compared in a comparator 13 with the sawtooth voltage F, whereby the ignitioncontrolling pulse is emitted during the period in which the voltage F exceeds the voltage U 5 . In a modification, Fig. 3 (not shown), the adder (34) handles only the engine variables, and the multiplier (32) is fed with the output from the adder and also with the unmodified voltage U 1 . The output from the multiplier is fed as one of the inputs of a further adder (33), the two other inputs of which are the voltage Ui as modified by a function generator (31) and as modified by a differentiator (30) respectively. The output from the adder (33) is taken as the voltage U 5 . In a further modification, Fig. 5 (not shown), the monostable 8 is fed with the pulses C instead of the pulses B, and the monostable 9 is replaced by a bistable (59) which is triggered on by pulses B and triggered off by the trailing edges of the pulses D. In addition, a switch (51) is provided whereby the comparator 13 can be selectively fed either with the sawtooth voltage F from the sawtooth generator 10 or with the sawtooth voltage (G) from a sawtooth generator (50) triggered by pulses B. In the device shown in Fig. 4, the differentiator 2 supplies only the T.D.C. pulses C, the before-T.D.C. pulses B fed to the monostable 8 being derived from the pulses C by a circuit comprising monostables 8, 9, sawtooth generator 110, peak value sampler 111, voltage divider 40 and comparator 113. The circuitry beyond the terminals 15, 22 is the same as that in Fig. 1 or in Fig. 3, but the terminal 15 is selectively connectable by switches 41, 42 to either the sampler 11 or the sampler 111 to provide a choice of either greater accuracy or better dynamic response. The device shown in Fig. 7 uses only pulses C (occurring, e.g. at T.D.C.), which are fed to a frequency counter 200 to provide a voltage U n  proportional to engine speed which is fed to voltage-controlled sawtooth generator 201, 203 whereby sawtooth voltages L, M are generated which are proportional, at any given instant, to the voltage U n  and therefore to the engine speed) and to the time interval from commencement of the sawtooth, so that a given voltage is attained after a constant angular displacement of the crank-shaft. In the case of the sawtooth generator 201, which is started by each pulse C, the sawtooth voltage L attains a value equal to a constant reference voltage Uk at a fixed crank-shaft angular interval after the pulse C, and therefore after T.D.C., whereupon a comparator 202 emits a pulse N to terminate the sawtooth, this pulse N being used to start the sawtooth generator 203. The speed-dependent voltage U n  is fed via a function generator 204 to an adder 33 which is also fed with inputs X, Y representative of, e.g. engine temperature and vacuum. When the sawtooth voltage M becomes equal to the output voltage U 5  of the adder 33, acomparator 13 emits a pulse O to terminate the sawtooth, the pulse O forming the higher-speed control pulse passed by the switch 6 to the ignition stage 7.