Abstract: An outer-rotor type engine-operated generator is of low cost and simple construction, can be miniaturized and can leak electricity for ignition without sacrificing generator output. The engine-operated generator has a plurality of magnets arranged along an inner circumference of an outer cylindrical wall of an outer-rotor and a multipolar stator housed within the outer-rotor facing the magnets. An electricity generating section for an engine ignition device is disposed on an outside of and opposite to the outer cylindrical wall of the outer-rotor, and a through window, through which magnetic force of the magnets affects the electricity generating section, is formed in a part of the outer cylindrical wall.

Abstract: An improved capacitive discharge ignition apparatus provides spark advance with engine speed. The ignition apparatus includes at least one trigger circuit including a trigger coil preferably contained in a common housing with other circuit elements. In this case, an auxiliary coil may be provided to cancel certain pulses in the trigger coil output that could otherwise interfere with desired operation. In some embodiments, a second trigger circuit is provided to derive a triggering signal from the primary coil of the ignition's step-up transformer. A triggering signal of appropriate magnitude received from either trigger circuit will cause discharge of an energy storage element through the primary coil.

Abstract: A first conductive plate is formed integrally of a single conductive sheet comprising a plurality of brushes and power supply terminals that are partially short-circuited, and a second conductive plate is formed integrally of a single conductive sheet comprising connector pins for connection for other components that are partially short-circuited.

Abstract: The invention relates to a generator arrangement, in particular, ignition systems for internal combustion engines. The arrangement comprises a multi-legged core of magnetically conducting material with the legs radially projecting towards a cooperating magneto flywheel, which exhibits a section with unsymmetrical magnetic flux. The legs carry uniformly wound windings and are connected in two groups in the case of a one-cylinder internal combustion engine. The one group comprises two windings interconnected such that they only deliver an induced voltage when passed by the unsymmetrical section. The other group delivers an induced sum voltage. The voltage of the first mentioned group controls the ignition process whereas the second group charges a capacitor, component of the ignition system.

Abstract: A small engine suitable for hand-held work machines such as cleavers and chain-saws in which the engine is started by driving a self-starting motor with the electromotive force of a secondary battery and wherein the size and weight of the engine is reduced by eliminating the use of a generator since the secondary battery is charged by utilizing the electromotive force of a magnet in reverse direction that is not normally used for igniting the engine.

Abstract: In a marine propulsion system including an internal combustion engine driving a voltage generator (14) supplying system voltage (line 26) which is supplied to ignition circuitry (10) providing spark ignition for running the engine in normal operation, overvoltage protection is provided for both the voltage generator regulator (12) and the ignition circuitry. If sensed system voltage is below a given threshold (V.sub.T), normal operation of the engine is continued. If sensed system voltage is above the given threshold, engine speed is reduced to reduce the generated voltage.

Abstract: A magnetogenerator comprises a plurality of permanent magnets arranged orderly on an inner periphery of a fly-wheel with magnetic poles thereof being alternative, a plurality of power generating coils including an ignition power generating coil and arranged within the fly-wheel in opposing relation to the plurality of permanent magnets, and a trigger pole of an angle position detector provided on the fly-wheel. The plurality of permanent magnets include a plurality of adjacently disposed first magnets each having a first peripheral length, a pair of adjacently disposed second magnets disposed adjacent the first magnets peripherally of the fly-wheel and having a second peripheral length longer than the first length by l.sub.1 and a pair of third magnets disposed adjacent the second magnets, respectively peripherally, and having a third length shorter than the first length by l.sub.

Abstract: The ignition system for providing spark ignition to the cylinders of an internal combustion engine includes a generator assembly adapted to be mounted on said engine. This generator assembly includes a magneto adapted to be driven in response to the operation of the engine to provide output power and a timing unit including at least one rotatable unit driven in timing relationship to the operation of said engine. A control assembly is removably mounted on the generator assembly and incorporates an ignition control circuit connected to receive power from the magneto and operative in response to the timing unit to provide spark ignition to specific cylinders of the internal combustion engine. The control assembly is removable from the generator assembly without altering the timing relationship between rotatable unit and engine.

Abstract: A magneto (10) comprising an E-type stator (12) and a rotor (14) movable relative to the stator (12) to induce therein a varying flux field. The three legs or poles (18, 20, 22) of the stator (14) are asymmetrically placed and the center pole (20) supports a charge coil (40) and a trigger coil (42). A suppression coil (42), wound about an iron core (50), is remotely positioned and electrically isolated from the stator poles (18, 20, 22) and situated within a larger spacing (34) defined by the asymmetrically placed stator poles (18, 20, 24).

Abstract: 'The invention is concerned with an ignition signal generator for internal combustion engines, consisting of a rotor and stators, wherein the rotor is constituted by a cylindrical magnet magnetized in the axial direction, and two disc-like magnetic pole pieces consisting of N pole and S pole attached to both side surfaces of the cylindrical magnet, the stators are so disposed that the two magnetic pole pieces are sandwiched therebetween, one end of each of the stators being faced to the N pole of the magnetic pole pieces and the other end thereof being faced to the S pole, and a pulser coil is wound on the central portion. Each of the two disc-like magnetic pole pieces is provided with stepped portions consisting of a portion larger than the outer diameter of the cylindrical magnet and a portion smaller than the outer diameter of the cylindrical magnet, the stepped portions in the periphery of the two magnetic pole pieces being coupled by a curve that changes gradually.

Abstract: An output supply control apparatus controls the supply of an output from an internal combustion engine magneto generator to its loads so as to effectively utilize the magneto generator. The desired ignition energy is obtained by charging a discharge capacitor of a contactless ignition system with a high induced voltage produced upon the rapid interruption of the short-circuit current in the generating coil, and also any other load such as a battery or lamp is energized by the high induced voltage exceeding a predetermined value. A constant voltage supply for the contactless ignition system ignition signal generating circuit is operated by the generating coil output current preceding the interruption. A regulator is included which monitors a lamp load voltage to commutate or transfer an excess output to the battery load and is operable in response to an overvoltage.

Abstract: To eliminate frictional effects by stationary elements (17, 37, 47) with respect to a sleeve (16, 36, 46) which rotates with a shaft (11) of a distributor, but is adjustable with respect to the instantaneous position about the shaft by a centrifugal spark advance mechanism (15), the nonrotatable elements (17, 37, 47) are secured from a support plate (22, 32, 49) which is positioned intermediate the sleeve and the distributor rotor, the support plate being journalled by bearings (23, 33, 44, 45) directly on the shaft. A load-dependent vacuum chamber can be linked directly to the support plate for additional load-dependent spark timing adjustment.

Abstract: To provide a pulse for engine ignition timing, a magnetic circuit is provided which includes a permanent magnet and magnetically conducting bodies with a gap provided between one pole face of the magnet and the remainder of the magnetic structure for passage of another magnetic body in its path of revolution in which it is driven by a shaft of the engine. A Hall generator is also provided at a suitable location in the magnetic circuit for responding to a sudden reduction of the magnetic flux when the revolving body exits from the air gap. A portion of the magnetic circuit including the permanent magnet is arranged to be shifted so as to increase the air gap in response to engine intake vacuum, which weakens the effect of the magnet on the Hall generator and advances the timing. An additional magnet provides a branch magnetic circuit which likewise weakens the effect on the Hall generator, but in this case upon approaching the main magnetic circuit, which is caused to happen when the engine speed increases.

Abstract: This invention provides a method and apparatus for obtaining a uniform advance for an internal combustion engine requiring unequal firing angles between cylinders and is characterized by an electromagnetic pulse generator having a trigger wheel that includes a number of metal vanes greater than a number of cylinders in the internal combustion engine. Although the trigger wheel generates more trigger pulses for each operating cycle of the engine than there are spark plugs only the number of trigger pulses equal to the number of spark plugs are transmitted to one or more switching devices to allow the discharge of stored electrical energy through a respective spark plug in timed relation to the operating cycle of the engine.

Abstract: The laminated stator core for an engine ignition system includes in addition to that ignition system an arrangement for charging the storage battery of an internal combustion engine powered device during engine operation with a charging coil surrounding one leg of the ignition stator core and a rectifier coupling to the charging coil for conveying a varying unidirectional current to the battery. The ignition system may be of the type having a three legged E-shaped laminated stator core and a flywheel supported permanent magnet with charging coils being positioned on each of the outer E legs with diodes in series with each charging coil and means connecting the two coil-diode series circuits in parallel with one another and to the battery for providing a pair of sequential primary charging current pulses to the battery during each revolution of the flywheel. A fourth laminated stator core leg supporting a charging coil may be employed in some circumstances.

Abstract: An ignition system of the contactless interrupt type for an internal combustion engine is disclosed with a control circuit including a pair of solid state semiconductor devices with one connected to the other in a controlling relation. The ignition system has a high voltage transformer with a secondary winding coupled to a spark plug and a primary winding shunted by the controlled one of the pair of semiconductors. A current flow is induced in the primary winding and then interrupted near its maximum value by rendering both of the semiconductor devices nonconducting. The controlling semiconductor may be a gate controlled switch or so-called gate turn-off device while the controlled semiconductor may be a power transistor.

Abstract: The laminated stator core for an engine ignition system includes in addition to that ignition system an arrangement for charging the storage battery of an internal combustion engine powered device during engine operation with a charging coil surrounding one leg of the ignition stator core and a rectifier coupled to the charging coil for conveying a varying unidirectional current to the battery. The ignition system may be of the type having a three legged E-shaped laminated stator core and a flywheel supported permanent magnet with charging coils being positioned on each of the outer E legs with diodes in series with each charging coil and means connecting the two coil-diode series circuits in parallel with one another and to the battery for providing a pair of sequential primary charging current pulses to the battery during each revolution of the flywheel. A fourth laminated stator core leg supporting a charging coil may be employed in some circumstances.

Abstract: The AC signal generator furnishing the basic control signal for ignition timing is a Hall generator the flux through which is gradually increased while the crankshaft of the engine rotates through a predetermined angle of rotation. The Hall generator is part of a magnetic circuit which also includes an air gap. The change in flux is accomplished by rotating a tapered magnetically conductive member through the air gap. The output of the Hall generator is applied through a linear amplifier to a threshold circuit whose output controls an electronic interrupter switch connected in series with the ignition coil.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for providing capacitor charging and triggering in so-called electronic ignition systems comprising flywheel magnetos with a plurality of poles. The triggering pulses are arranged phase-shifted in time in relation to the charging pulses, whereby charging the capacitor in question is prevented after triggering initiating ignition. By arranging three windings, for example, connected in series on three adjacent magnetic core legs as capacitor charging pulse generating windings, and bridging over three adjacent ones with a rectifier with a polarity for passing through negative half pulses, a rather constant charging voltage is obtained for a wide range of the engine rpm.

Abstract: A pole-shoe magnet group assembly for a magnetomotive device such as a magneto for the ignition system of an internal combustion engine. The group carried by the rotor includes a permanent magnet and a pair of pole-shoes extending generally circumferentially from the magnet in opposite directions. A coil/core group for electromagnetic cooperation with the pole-shoe magnet group is disposed on the stator. The inner surface of each pole-shoe is defined by a circular arc having a center eccentric to the center of rotation of the rotor. The inner surfaces of the pole-shoes and the core of the trigger coil define an air gap or spacing which varies during rotation of each shoe relative to the core. The signal induced in the trigger coil by this construction inhibits unwanted firing of a solid state switching component and in a breakerless ignition in response to reverse rotation of the magnet pole-shoe group.

Abstract: In a combined capacitor discharge ignition and alternator auxiliary power system for an internal combustion engine, voltage pulses for charging a capacitor, other voltage pulses for triggering an SCR, and still other voltage pulses for producing an alternating auxiliary power output are provided by a single generator having an engine driven rotor providing an array of magnetic pole faces regularly spaced and of alternating magnetic polarity along a circular path of movement. A stator carries a charge coil, a trigger coil, and at least one auxiliary power coil adjacent the circular path so that a repetitive series of charge pulses, a repetitive series of trigger pulses, and a repetitive series of auxiliary power pulses are induced respectively in the charge coil, the trigger coil, and the auxiliary power coil each time the array passes said coils. The rotor also includes a space, along the circular path, within which no magnetic pole face appears.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a system which utilizes the storage action of capacitors and the characteristic of the turn-off operation due to a potential difference between the base and emitter of a transistor, and immediately after a primary short-circuit current flowing through a primary winding of an ignition coil has reached a maximum, that is, immediately after a forward induced voltage in the primary winding has reached a maximum, the primary short-circuit current is cut off in accordance with information in which the forward induced voltage in the primary winding is at its maximum to always effect the ignition operation immediately after the primary short-circuit current is at its maximum.

Abstract: A current interruption type ignition system for an internal combustion engine comprises an ignition coil including a primary coil portion and a secondary coil portion; an exciter inducing an AC voltage in synchronism with rotation of the engine to be supplied to the primary coil portion of the ignition coil; a first semiconductor switch provided in parallel to the primary coil portion to conduct a current from the exciter therethrough; a second semiconductor switch provided on a controlled terminal of the first semiconductor switch so that the second semiconductor switch, upon conduction, causes the first semiconductor switch to be turned off so as to abruptly conduct a primary current into the primary coil portion of the ignition coil; and a signal source generating an ignition signal at the ignition position of the engine.

Abstract: A capacitor discharge ignition system is provided with an ignition timing stabilization arrangement to achieve substantially constant ignition timing characteristics over a wide range of engine speeds. The capacitor discharge ignition system is positioned adjacent a rotating permanent magnet that is rotated over a path in synchronism with the operation of an engine to be controlled.The capacitor discharge ignition system includes a stator core having disposed thereon an ignition coil and a control coil assembly. The control coil assembly includes a control winding and a timing stabilization winding. As a first pole of the magnet passes the stator core, a voltage and current of a first polarity is induced in the control winding to charge a storage capacitor.

Abstract: A multipolar stator for magneto basically comprises a central cast-aluminum plate to which are rigidly secured the coils, points, and condenser of the ignition and electricity-generating system. Each of these active circuit components has a terminal extending outwardly beyond the periphery of this metallic disk. An insulating semirigid synthetic-resin ring surrounds this metal plate and is provided with connections that can be secured to these terminals so that wiring can lead from the connections out of the ring. Thus the rotor assembly comprises two separate subassemblies, one conductive and one insulating, and allows a parts supplier to stock various standard items to form a multiplicity of different stator types.

Abstract: An engine driven rotor has pairs of arms of different lengths passing by the stator core teeth with respectively different clearances. The stator teeth carry pick-up coils that are connected in series-aiding relation. Although the stator teeth are uniformly spaced, the rotor arms, that are equal in number to the stator teeth, have the longer pair angularly offset from equiangular relation to the shorter pair in such a way that when the rotor moves in its normal direction, a weak pulse is followed by a stronger one and this pattern is repeated four times per revolution. The output of the coils is supplied to a threshold switch, which will be triggered on the second of the pair of pulses at low rotation speeds of the rotor and on the first of the pair of pulses at high speeds.

Abstract: An angular position signal generator includes a rotor and a stator each having an arrangement of salient magnetic poles. The poles on the rotor are all of the same polarity and are spaced at unequal angles around the axis of the rotor. The poles on the stator are identically arranged so that in at least one position of the rotor all the poles are aligned and in at least two other positions only some of the poles are aligned. As the rotor rotates, therefore, the flux flowing between the poles fluctuates and a winding in the flux path produces pulses of different magnitudes at these various positions of the rotor.

Abstract: A two-cylinder, two-cycle engine for an outboard motor includes a pull-rope starter unit and an alternator driven, capacitor discharge ignition system. The alternator includes an annular permanent magnet secured within a flywheel skirt and includes a pair of circumferential opposite poles with diametrical spaced neutral areas. A stator assembly is mounted within the annular magnet and includes a semicircular core with a charging coil at each end. The coils are connected to charge a capacitor unit which is discharged through a control rectifier. A trigger coil is connected to the gate of the rectifier and is mounted in coplanar relation between the chargingcoils. The trigger coil is wound on a pole aligned with and spaced from the stator core with the coil and pole rotatably mounted by a housing having an integral cam for positioning a throttle lever. The housing rotates through a selected segment of the core.

Abstract: An ignition system of a current interruption type comprises an a.c. power source and an ignition coil, the primary winding of which is connected to the a.c. power source through a controllable switch element for interrupting the current. The ignition system further includes a control circuit for controlling the switch element. The control circuit functions to actuate the switch element in synchronism with the ignition cycle of an internal combustion engine in dependence upon the output of the a.c. power source thereby to interrupt the primary current in the ignition coil and induce a high voltage in the secondary winding thereof.

Abstract: A magneto-alternator has a plurality of alternator coils for lighting or the like and a main ignition coil for a breaker-point ignition. Stator laminations are arranged so that the ignition coil is between two alternator coils and each coil is effectively on an E-shaped core with an outer leg of each E-shaped core being shared with an adjacent coil. The flywheel has a plurality of ceramic magnets having a high potential energy so that a high alternator output is developed. The center core leg of the E core on which the ignition coil is mounted has a large air gap relative to the air gaps at the other core legs to compensate for the high energy of the magnets and thereby limit current at the breaker points. The large air gap also makes the magneto output insensitive to production tolerances in the air gap.

Abstract: A capacitive discharge ignition system having a charge coil and an ignition coil including primary and secondary windings wound on a common stator structure. The charge coil is coupled to the primary winding of the ignition coil by an SCR and a main capacitor such that the capacitor is first charged by the charge coil and then discharged through the SCR into the primary winding of the ignition coil when the SCR fires. During discharge of the capacitor, the charge coil also supplies current to the primary winding of the ignition coil. A shorted turn is located on one leg of the stator structure and a diode is connected in parallel with the charge coil to reduce the maximum peak potential supplied by the charge coil to reduce the maximum potential rating requirements of the ignition circuit components.

Abstract: A two cylinder, two cycle engine for an outboard motor includes an alternator driven, capacitor discharge ignition system. The alternator includes an annular permanent magnet secured within a flywheel skirt and includes a pair of circumferential opposite poles with diametrical spaced neutral areas. The magnet is a flexible ferrite strip with a butt joint at one of the neutral areas. A stator assembly is mounted within the annular rotor and includes a semicircular core with a charging coil at each end. Each movement of the magnetic gap means past the coils generates a pulse. A trigger coil within a housing is mounted in coplanar relation between the charging coils, with a pole aligned with and spaced from the stator core. The housing is rotatably mounted and includes an integral cam for positioning a throttle lever.

Abstract: A breakerless condenser discharge ignition system for an internal combustion engine and excited by a rotating permanent magnet, consists of a single module, containing a number of windings and electrical components, mounted on one pole of a ferromagnetic core for producing high voltage output pulses for firing an associated spark plug.

Abstract: An ignition system for an internal combustion engine having an AC generator comprises an ignition coil energized by an AC output from the generator. A first thyristor is connected in series with the primary of the ignition coil and permits and interrupts the current through the primary. The first thyristor is turned on at a first angle in advance of ignition. A capacitor is charged by an AC output from the generator, and is discharged when a second thyristor conducts to apply a reverse voltage across the anode and cathode of the first thyristor. The second thyristor is triggered at a second angle.

Abstract: This invention provides an improvement in a flywheel magneto having a thyristor controlled capacitive ignition system including a flywheel having permanent magnets and at least one cooperating coil core which has three pole legs and at least one charging coil and one trigger coil. The improvement therein comprises a charging coil arranged on the intermediate pole leg of the coil core and a trigger coil being arranged on the last pole leg when viewed in the direction of rotation of the flywheel.

Abstract: A capacitive discharge type ignition system is arranged for selective operation by timing signals generated by either breaker points or a breakerless timing signal generator. The generator utilizes the signal generated by an inductive pickup to modulate an oscillator output. The modulation signal is detected and by use of a peak point detector and converted to accurate timing pulses. Circuitry is included to bias the oscillator in a linear mode and inhibit timing signal generation at turn on until the oscillator is operating stably.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a capacitive discharge ignition system has a charge coil and an ignition coil including primary and secondary windings wound on a common stator structure. The charge coil is coupled to the primary winding of the ignition coil by an SCR and a main capacitor such that the capacitor is first charged by the charge coil and then discharged through the SCR into the primary winding of the ignition coil when the SCR fires. During discharge of the capacitor, the charge coil also supplies current to the primary winding of the ignition coil. The SCR may be fired by a triggering circuit which includes a capacitor network connecting the gate of the SCR to the charge winding and main capacitor or through a breakdown effect of the SCR absent the provision of a triggering circuit. The circuit arrangement obviates the need for the usual charging diode between the charging coil and the main capacitor. Several embodiments of triggering circuit for the SCR are disclosed.

Abstract: This invention provides an improved magneto system which is reliable and stable irrespective of environmental conditions, wear and the like, and has no contacts, breakers or other moving parts in addition to the rotor itself. The conduction in the magneto winding means is initiated and terminated by a solid state device and preferably a solid state threshold device which is responsive to impulses of electrical energy to change its state between one of conduction and nonconduction whereby magneto operation can be controlled by relatively short duration trigger impulses. The trigger impulses may automatically produce a spark advance for increased magneto speeds.

Abstract: A distributor for a contactless ignition apparatus of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. An ignition control circuit unit of contactless type is comprised of a case containing the ignition control IC circuit and a mold resin of the pick-up coil integrally formed with the case. The distributor contains closed magnetic circuit-forming means comprising a distributor shaft rotatable in synchronism with the engine, a reluctor or rotor fixed on the shaft and having claws in the number corresponding to the number of engine cylinders, a stator having a pair of claws opposed to the claws of the reluctor and mounted on the movable base of the angle advancer for advancing the ignition timing in response to a negative vacuum pressure, and a permanent magnet for generating a closed magnetic circuit through the reluctor stator and shaft. The pick-up coil of the ignition control circuit unit is arranged to cross the closed magnetic circuit, which unit is fixed within the distributor.