Abstract: A laser spark plug configured to be installed into a plug shaft of an internal combustion engine, and to focus laser ignition energy into the combustion chamber via combustion chamber-side, and thus proximal end, of the laser spark plug has, at a distal end of the laser spark plug opposite to the proximal end, a connecting unit for detachable mechanical and thermal connection to a cooler, the connecting unit being designed to permit the connecting and the disconnecting of the cooler when the laser spark plug is installed in the plug shaft.

Abstract: An ignition laser, includes a laser-active solid-state body, a housing and a combustion chamber window, the housing having an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve. An insert is provided between the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve, the insert and the combustion chamber window being joined sealingly and integrally.

Abstract: A laser spark plug configured to be installed into a plug shaft of an internal combustion engine, and to focus laser ignition energy into the combustion chamber via combustion chamber-side, and thus proximal end, of the laser spark plug has, at a distal end of the laser spark plug opposite to the proximal end, a connecting unit for detachable mechanical and thermal connection to a cooler, the connecting unit being designed to permit the connecting and the disconnecting of the cooler when the laser spark plug is installed in the plug shaft.

Abstract: A socket wrench is described for installing a laser ignition system in an internal combustion engine, the socket wrench including a drive section and an output section that are situated axially one after another. The output section has a longitudinal recess.

Abstract: An ignition system is described, in particular for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, having a laser spark plug, a pump module for supplying the laser spark plug with pump radiation, and an optical fiber device for transmitting the pump radiation from the pump module to the laser spark plug. At least two separate signal transmission devices which each extend at least partially along the optical fiber device, and an evaluation unit, which is designed to act on each of the signal transmission devices with a test signal, to evaluate a response signal of the signal transmission devices which results from the particular test signal, and from the response signal to deduce an operating state of the corresponding signal transmission device, are provided.

Abstract: A covering device for a spark plug shaft of an internal combustion engine has a fastening element provided for mechanically fastening the covering device to a target system, the fastening element being configured to electrically conductively connect at least one electric conductor to the covering device (100) and/or the target system.

Abstract: A cooling device for a laser spark plug. The cooling has a radially inner first contact area which is developed to establish a thermal contact to a housing of the laser spark plug via at least one first radially inner contact surface. The cooling device also has a radially outer second contact area which is developed to establish a thermal contact to a heat sink, in particular to an inner wall of a spark plug hole receiving the laser spark plug, via at least one first radially outer contact surface. A connector is provided, which is developed to establish a thermal contact between the first contact area and the second contact area. The cooling device is developed at least in part elastically in order to allow for a relative movement in a generally radial direction between at least the first contact surface and the second contact surface.

Abstract: A socket wrench is described for installing a laser ignition system in an internal combustion engine, the socket wrench including a drive section and an output section that are situated axially one after another. The output section has a longitudinal recess.

Abstract: An ignition laser, includes a laser-active solid-state body, a housing and a combustion chamber window, the housing having an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve. An insert is provided between the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve, the insert and the combustion chamber window being joined sealingly and integrally.

Abstract: The apparatus simplifies release of the locking connections. The second housing section of the electrical device is designed rotationally asymmetrically in such a way that when rotated about the longitudinal axis, the electrical device at one particular side wall of the second housing section causes the at least one locking connection to open.

Abstract: A device for energy storage and energy transformation is described, in particular an ignition coil of an ignition system of a motor vehicle, having a magnetically active I core, which is surrounded by a first coil former having a winding connected to a supply voltage, and a second coil former having a winding connected to a high-voltage terminal, and having a peripheral core forming a magnetic circuit with the I core and enclosing the system made up of the first and second coil formers. In its circumferential extension, the peripheral core has a recess to accommodate an end area of the I core.

Abstract: A device for energy storage and energy transformation is described, in particular an ignition coil of an ignition system of a motor vehicle, having a magnetically active I core, which is surrounded by a first coil former having a winding connected to a supply voltage, and a second coil former having a winding connected to a high-voltage terminal, and having a peripheral core forming a magnetic circuit with the I core and enclosing the system made up of the first and second coil formers. In its circumferential extension, the peripheral core has a recess to accommodate an end area of the I core.

Abstract: An ignition device for an internal combustion engine occupies a small amount of space and is suited for efficient manufacturing. For this purpose, the ignition device has an ignition coil which is designed as a bar ignition coil having a coil former arranged concentrically to a longitudinal axis of the ignition coil, an insulation carrier being coaxially attached to the coil former. The coil former is provided with a winding set, the winding wire of which is continued to the insulation carrier. At this point, an interference suppression element in the form of an inductor is implemented in a continued winding. The ignition device is preferably utilized in motor vehicles.

Abstract: A bar coil for use as an ignition coil in internal combustion engines (of motor vehicles) is designed so that casting resin can be introduced into an interior space of the bar coil in a manner that is advantageous from a manufacturing standpoint. The bar coil has a centrally arranged channel that extends from a connecting segment, through a core of the bar coil, and to a pan-shaped bottom area of the interior space of the bar coil. Casting resin flowing through the channel enters the closed bottom area, from which it is diverted as a uniform front to flow through gaps in the bar coil to the connecting segment.

Abstract: An ignition device 11 for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is to be designed so that it operates reliably even under conditions of vibration acceleration of the internal combustion engine. Ignition device 11 has, depending on the number of cylinders of the internal combustion engine, rod-shaped ignition coils 12. An end section 22 of each ignition coil 12 is formed by a part of a core 23 of ignition coil 12 that protrudes from a housing 20 of ignition coil 12. A damper 29 is mounted on the part of core 23. The other end section 21 of ignition coil 12 is formed by a high-voltage dome 27, which is mounted in a socket 39 made of elastic material and placed in a spark plug pit 15 of a cylinder head 13 of the internal combustion engine. Ignition device 11 is elastically held by fastening element 33 and secured at both end sections 21, 22 on cylinder head 13 of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine has a housing composed of an insulating material and having an insertion opening, at least one ring-shaped core composed of a soft magnetic material and having a portion insertable in the housing, a primary coil body and a secondary coil body, a primary coil and a secondary coil wound on the primary coil body and the secondary coil body and arranged coaxially to one another on the portion of the core, the housing being provided with a high voltage dome extending substantially perpendicularly to a central axis of the coil bodies, a connecting pin insertable along a longitudinal axis of the high voltage dome and connected via a diode with a high voltage winding end of the secondary coil. The connecting pin, the diode and the coil bodies with the coils together form an operationally premounted assembly insertable through the insertion opening in the housing. A spacer connected with one of the coil bodies. The housing completely surrounds the core.

Abstract: The fastening arrangement for electrical connection to an ignition coil includes a housing; an epoxy resin circuit board in the housing and having a plurality of conductor paths electrically insulated from each other, each of which are provided with at least two ends having a bore hole for electrical connection to the primary windings; and a connection plug including elements for easily securing it to the housing and a plurality of electrical contacts extending from an exterior side of the plug and into the housing on an interior side. The housing is provided with a recess to accommodate the connection plug and a guide groove in the recess in which a projecting guide element of an outer peripheral flange of the connecting plug is pressed to fix the connection plug to the housing. The electrical contacts are electrically insulated from each other and each of them includes a pin on its interior end.

Abstract: A coil is produced by wrapping a primary winding of the coil onto a core rod of a wrapping machine, arranging a secondary winding of the coil on a winding form and pushing it coaxially over the primary winding, pulling the core rod out of the primary winding, simultaneously inserting an iron core into the primary winding, and moving along a housing which accommodates the iron core onto the ignition coil, and filling the housing with casting resin to form a plastic block which surrounds at least the primary winding.